The 18th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival will
honor Sydney Pollack with the Patron of the Arts Award presented by the Screen
Actors Guild Foundation, Kate Winslet with the Desert Palm Achievement Award
and Todd Field with the Sonny Bono Visionary Award at the Festival’s annual
Awards Gala, it was announced today. The Awards Gala,
held on Saturday, January
6, 2007 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, will also honor
Adam Beach and will be hosted by Entertainment Tonight’s Mary Hart, so let’s hope that woman who has seizures upon hearing Hart’s voice isn’t in attendance. The festival itself runs January 4-15, with a lineup of more than 230 films from 65 countries. For more information, click here.