Julianne Moore to be Honored at Palm Springs Film Festival

Actress Julianne Moore will be honored at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Jan. 3 for her “Still Alice” role as a linguistics professor diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

Moore will be feted at the Palm Springs Convention Center, where she will accept the Desert Palm Achievement Award, which is given to an actress and an actor each year, according to festival organizers.

“Throughout her career, Julianne Moore has delivered a wide range of extraordinary performances, from such diverse Oscar-nominated films as ‘Boogie Nights’ and ‘Far from Heaven’ to this year’s Cannes win for best actress in the riveting ‘Maps to the Stars,”’ said festival Chairman Harold Matzner. “In her latest film, ‘Still Alice,’ she faces one of her most demanding and challenging roles as Alice, a woman diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Moore delivers another career-defining performance that is sure to captivate audiences and bring attention to this devastating disease.”

Some of Moore’s other film credits include “The Kids Are All Right,” “Laws Of Attraction,” “Children Of Men, “The Fugitive,” “The Hand That Rocks The Cradle,” “The End Of The Affair” and “Magnolia.” She is a four- time Academy Award nominee, eight-time Golden Globe nominee, and won an Emmy in 2012 for her role as Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in the HBO movie “Game Change.”

Actor Eddie Redmayne, who plays astrophysicist Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” will receive the award for male actors.

Past recipients of the Desert Palm Achievement Award include Sandra Bullock, Natalie Portman, Halle Berry, Anne Hathaway and Charlize Theron. Other gala nominees will be announced in the near future.

For more information on the Palm Springs International Film Festival, which runs from Jan. 2-12, call (760) 322-2930 or go to www.psfilmfest.org.

— City News Service.