{"id":196433,"date":"2019-01-05T04:53:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T09:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=196433"},"modified":"2019-01-05T04:53:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T09:53:57","slug":"hollywood-kicks-off-2019-awards-season-in-palm-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/05\/hollywood-kicks-off-2019-awards-season-in-palm-springs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood kicks off 2019 awards season in Palm Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Bradley Cooper and Sam Elliott on the Red Carpet of the 2019 Palm Springs International Film Festival (Photo<\/a>: @PSFilmFest\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. \u2014 Bradley Cooper, Spike Lee, Olivia Colman and other Oscar contenders kicked off Hollywood’s 2019 awards season with an emotional trip to the desert city of Palm Springs.<\/p>\n

The Palm Springs International Film Festival gala was a familiar setting for Cooper, who received director of the year honours on Thursday. He had presented the same trophy to his \u201cSilver Linings Playbook\u201d director David O. Russell six years ago, and filmed key \u201cA Star is Born\u201d scenes in the area.<\/p>\n

First-time director Cooper choked up while thanking co-star Sam Elliott for his \u201cblind faith,\u201d saying, \u201cIt’s just a testament that if you believe in something so strong and you’re willing to work tirelessly, you can get great artists like Sam Elliott.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCan You Ever Forgive Me?\u201d star Melissa McCarthy and \u201cThe Favourite\u201d star Colman both held back tears when talking about their husbands on stage.<\/p>\n

Lee, winner of a career achievement award, recounted his early ambitions after being introduced by his \u201cBlackKklansman\u201d stars John David Washington and Adam Driver.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowing up in public school in Brooklyn, I would sit in the back of the class,\u201d he said. \u201cI would practice my autograph. Didn’t take any notes. Just practice my autograph. I don’t know why. But I knew one day I would be signing autographs. So this whole thing, as a filmmaker. I think that I didn’t choose film. Film chose me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emily Blunt heaped praise on her \u201cMary Poppins Returns\u201d director Rob Marshall.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf what Mary Poppins does for people is come in and infuse a sense of wonder and hope and joy, well then … you are our Manny Poppins, always and forever,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Colman made one of the night’s few nods to real-world politics. She called Queen Anne, her character in \u201cThe Favourite,\u201d \u201csomeone in whom resides all the madness, frustration, confusion and instability of a powerful person unfit for their job. I don’t know if you know of anyone like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGreen Book,\u201d a race-focused story set in the 1950s and inspired by a true story, was given the Vanguard Award at the event. On the red carpet, star Viggo Mortensen pushed back against what he called \u201cextremely unfair\u201d recent media reports questioning the historical accuracy of the film.<\/p>\n

Honorees at the black tie optional gala dinner will be seeing plenty more of each other. All the individual award winners are also nominees at the Golden Globe Awards, to be held Sunday in Beverly Hills..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. \u2014 Bradley Cooper, Spike Lee, Olivia Colman and other Oscar contenders kicked off Hollywood’s 2019 awards season …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":196446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","mauthors-ryan-pearson","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}