Tag: Excellence in Acting

Colman Domingo is an award-winning actor, playwright, director, and producer. In other words, he’s a mega talent. A 2024 Oscar, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe, and Critics Choice Award nominee for his starring role as Bayard Rustin in Rustin, Domingo also starred last year as Mister in The Color Purple. He is a two-time Film Independent Spirit, Gotham, SAG, Critics Choice, NAACP Image, Tony®, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Drama Desk, Drama League and NAACP Theatre Award nominee for his work on stage and screen, and is an OBIE and Lucille Lortel Award winner.

Billy Porter is a tremendously talented Emmy, Tony and Grammy-award winning actor, singer and director, and playwright.  His cinematic performances include 80 for Brady, Cinderella, The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic… Continue reading 2023 – BILLY PORTER

Dale Dickey is a superbly talented veteran of film, television and the theater, with over 60 film credits—notably her Film Independent Spirit Award-winning performance in Debra Granik’s acclaimed Winter’s Bone. Other films include Flag… Continue reading 2022 – DALE DICKEY

Riz Ahmed became one of Hollywood’s most sought-after artists following the explosive success of HBO’s The Night Of, for which he won an Emmy Award, and was Golden Globe and… Continue reading 2021 – RIZ AHMED

We’re honored to celebrate the career of Judith Light, whose has the uncanny ability to reveal new depths to her talents with each new project. Two-time Tony winner and Emmy… Continue reading 2019 – JUDITH LIGHT

Molly has forged an amazing career starting with her six-season run on “Saturday Night Live,” where she created a host of indelible characters. In the years since leaving SNL she… Continue reading 2018 – MOLLY SHANNON

In some ways Chloë Sevigny already feels like family. Massachusetts-born and Connecticut-raised, her films have been a fixture at PIFF for years, and she’s worked with four past Filmmaker on… Continue reading 2017 – CHLOË SEVIGNY