Marion Cotillard (right) and Quentin Tarantino will be honored at the 2010 Palm Springs Film Festival. Cotillard, one of the stars of Rob Marshall's Nine, will receive the Desert Palm Achievement Actress Award while Tarantino will get the Sonny Bono Visionary Award.
Presented by Cartier, the Palm Springs Awards Gala will take place on Tuesday, January 5, at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The event will be hosted by Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart. Other 2010 honorees are Jeff Bridges, T Bone Burnett, Mariah Carey, Morgan Freeman, Anna Kendrick, Helen Mirren, Jason Reitman and Jeremy Renner. The Festival runs January 5-18, 2010.
In Nine, a musical adaptation of Federico Fellini's 8½, Cotillard portrays the wife of Daniel Day-Lewis' crisis-prone film director Guido. Others in the stellar cast are Nicole Kidman, Penélope Cruz, Kate Hudson, Judi Dench, Fergie, and Sophia Loren. Cotillard can also be seen in Karim Dridi's Le Dernier Vol (The Last Flight), based on the novel The Last Flight of the Lancaster.
Set in the first year of the German occupation of France, Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds stars Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, Eli Roth, Rod Taylor, and Christoph Waltz. It has been nominated for four Golden Globes and three SAG Awards.
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