Natalie Portman, Michelle Williams, Sebastian Stan, Sean Baker, James Gray, Daisy Ridley & Michael Douglas Set For Starry 50th Deauville Film Festival
Natalie Portman, Michelle Williams and Sebastian Stan have joined the roster of Hollywood stars set to attend the 50th edition of France’s Deauville American Film Festival.
The festival announced Thursday that it would fete Portman and Williams with its Deauville Talent Award at the upcoming edition (running from September 6 to 15) in the presence of the stars.
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Stan is also set to attend receive its Nouvel Hollywood award in the wake of recent performances in The Apprentice and A Different Man, which will screen at the festival as part of its Premieres line-up.
He joins Daisy Ridley, whose presence in Deauville for same award was announced last week. Previous recipients of the award feting rising Hollywood talents include Robert Pattinson, Ryan Gosling and Emilia Clarke.
In other additions to the program, Deauville also revealed that it would be welcoming back Cannes 2024 Palme d’Or winner Sean Baker, who has a long history with the festival.
Baker first attended with 2015 feature Tangerine, which won the jury prize, while penultimate feature Red Rocket won the festival’s jury and critics prizes.
The director will accompany a screening of Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anora, with the festival also screenings his first four films: Four Letter Words (2000), Take Out (2004), Prince of Broadway (2008) and Starlet (2012) – which have not been shown in France before.
Further newly announced guests include James Gray who will participate in meeting with the public. Other previously announced Hollywood guests include Michael Douglas, who returns to the festival for a fifth time as its guest of honor.
On the screenings front, the festival’s Premieres section showcasing 10 upcoming U.S. films due to be released in France this year, will also feature Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Megalopolis, Lee Miller and Speak No Evil.
Its competition will showcase 14 U.S. indie productions, many of which have yet to secure distribution in France, comprising Minhal Baig’s We Grown Now, Vincent Grashaw’s Bang Bang, Brandt Andersen’s The Stranger’s Case, David Fortune’s Color Book, Titus Kaphar’s Exhibiting Forgiveness, Nnamdi Asomugha’s The Knife, Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio’s In The Summers, Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point, Alonso Ruizpalacios’s La Cocina, Roberto Minervini’s The Damned, Ryan J. Sloan’s Gazer, Todd Wiseman Jr.s’ The School Duel, Greg Kwedar’s Sing Sing and Christy Hall’s Daddio.
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