Last year The Hollywood Film Festival awarded its Hollywood Director honors to Katherine Bigelow and the Hollywood Screenwriter nod went to Nora Ephron for Julie & Julia. In 2008 Christopher Nolan & Charles Roven won the Producers Awrds for The Dark Knight, John Patrick Shanley was named Hollywood Screenwriter for Doubt, and Dustin Lance Black took the award for Breakthrough Screenwriter. By these examples alone we can see the Festival is (appropriately) more ‘Hollywood’ than most any other group and do deserve credit for choosing winners that are hard to argue with.
HOLLYWOOD, CA, September 27, 2010 — The 14th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards, presented by Starz, are pleased to announce that producers Danny Boyle and Christian Colson will be honored with the “Hollywood Producer Award,” screenwriter Aaron Sorkin will get the “Hollywood Screenwriter Award,” and Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall will be honored with the “Hollywood Editor Award” at the festival’s Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony.
The announcement was made today by Carlos de Abreu, Founder of the Hollywood Awards Gala.
“We are honored to recognize these exceptionally talented artists for their outstanding work and creative vision at this year’s Hollywood Awards Gala,” said de Abreu.
Previously announced honorees for this year’s Hollywood Awards Gala include: Sean Penn for the “Humanitarian Award”; Helena Bonham Carter for the “Supporting Actress Award”; Sam Rockwell for the “Supporting Actor Award”; Andrew Garfield for the “Breakthrough Actor Award”; Mia Wasikowska for the “Breakthrough Actress Award”; Disney/Pixar’s “Toy
Story 3” and director Lee Unkrich for the “Hollywood Animation Award”; Paramount Pictures’ “Iron Man 2” and visual effects supervisors Ben Snow and Janek Sirrs for the “Hollywood Visual Effects Award”; Hans Zimmer for “Film Composer Award”; Wally Pfister for “Cinematographer Award”; and Robert Stromberg for the “Production Designer Award.”The gala ceremony will take place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on October 25, 2010.