The stars descended upon the desert at the 2025 Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards on Friday night. The 36th annual event honored the year’s best movies and top actors, including the Vanguard Award for the cast and director of Emilia Pérez and the Ensemble Performance Award for Conclave.
Individual recipients were Colman Domingo (Spotlight Award, Actor for Sing Sing), Adrien Brody (Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor for The Brutalist), Angelina Jolie (Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress for Maria), Nicole Kidman (International Star Award for Babygirl), Kieran Culkin (Breakthrough Performance Award, Actor for A Real Pain), Mikey Madison (Breakthrough Performance Award, Actress for Anora), Timothée Chalamet (Chairman’s Award for A Complete Unknown), Ariana Grande (Rising Star Award for Wicked), and Denis Villeneuve (Visionary Award for Dune: Part Two).
See the Hollywood stars arrive on the red carpet in our 2025 Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards photo gallery above.
Since 2008, at least one recipient of a PSIFF honor has gone on to win an Oscar. Last year Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer), Emma Stone (Poor Things), Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers), and Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell (“What Was I Made For” songwriters for Barbie) each picked up a prize here before prevailing at the Academy Awards.
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