Ewan McGregor, the veteran Scottish actor who just lately earned a few of the finest critiques of his 30-year profession for his efficiency on the heart of the Paramount+ restricted sequence A Gentleman in Moscow, on which he additionally served as an govt producer, has been tapped for the Newport Seashore Movie Competition’s TV Efficiency of the 12 months Award.
McGregor, 53, will probably be celebrated at an occasion that may kick off on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 5:30pm PT, on the Pelican Hill Resort in Newport Seashore. To start with, he’ll sit down with yours actually for a career-retrospective dialog that will probably be recorded for subsequent posting as an episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast. Then, the fest will current him together with his award.
“The Newport Seashore Movie Competition couldn’t be extra honored to bestow this award to Ewan McGregor for his legendary profession,” Gregg Schwenk, NBFF’s CEO and govt director, mentioned in an announcement. “He’s a real powerhouse who has left a mark not solely on the audiences who take pleasure in his unimaginable array of tasks, however on the trade as a complete.”
McGregor first rose to prominence because the star of 1995’s Trainspotting, then shot to stardom taking part in Obi-Wan Kenobi within the second Star Wars trilogy (1999-2005), and has additional distinguished himself in quite a few movies (e.g. 2001’s Moulin Rouge!, 2003’s Massive Fish, 2010’s The Ghost Author, 2012’s The Unattainable) and TV applications (he gained an Emmy for the 2021 restricted sequence Halston and Golden Globe and Critics Selection awards for the 2023 restricted sequence Fargo).
A Gentleman in Moscow, which rolled out March 29 by way of Could 17, is an adaptation of Amor Towles’ 2016 novel. In it, McGregor performs Rely Alexander Ilyich Rostov, an aristocrat who, after returning to Russia from Paris following the October Revolution, is sentenced to accommodate arrest by a Bolshevik tribunal and spends many years in an attic lodge room.
The twenty fifth NBFF will probably be held from October 17-24, 2024. Peter Sarsgaard will probably be fêted with the Movie Efficiency of the 12 months Award for his work on September 5 — and also will file a dwell episode of the Awards Chatter podcast — on Oct. 23.
Different honorees at this 12 months’s fest will embody Nicolas Cage (Icon Award), Joan Chen (Profession Achievement Award), Colman Domingo (Maverick Award), Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Sheryl Lee Ralph (Artist of Distinction Awards), George MacKay (Highlight Award), June Squibb (Lifetime Achievement Award), Diane Warren (Lifetime Achievement in Music Award), Colleen Atwood (Profession Achievement in Costume Design), David Alan Grier and Wendi McLendon-Covey (Excellent Achievement in Comedy Award), Terry Crews (Arts Champion Award), Jane Lynch (Excellent Achievement in Comedy Award), Finneas O’Connell (Excellent Achievement in Music Award on October 21) and Christoph Waltz (Icon Award).