Colman Domingo Honored With Spotlight Award at Palm Springs International Film Festival – Film News in Brief

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Colman Domingo is set to receive the Spotlight Award for actor at the Palm Springs International Film Awards. The awards ceremony will be held at the Palm Springs Convention Center on Jan.

3, the second night of the annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, which runs Jan. 2-13. Domingo will be honored alongside stars Karla Sofia Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Edgar Ramírez as well as director Jacques Audiard of “Emilia Pérez,” previously announced as the recipient of the Vanguard Award. “We are so thrilled to honor the remarkable talent of Colman Domingo at the Palm Springs International Film Awards for the second year in a row.

In ‘Sing Sing,’ Colman Domingo delivers another outstanding performance based on the true story of the wrongfully convicted Divine G, who finds purpose in prison through stage acting,” said Festival Chairman Nachhattar Singh Chandi. “For this incredibly raw and captivating performance, it is our honor to present the Spotlight Award, Actor to Colman Domingo.” In A24’s “Sing Sing,” Domingo’s character Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit, finds purpose by acting in a theater group alongside other incarcerated men, including a wary newcomer played by Clarence Maclin.