Bill Nighy To Receive Newport Beach Film Festival Icon Award at U.K. Honors
variety.comK.J. Yossman Bill Nighy is set to be honored with an Icon Award at Newport Beach Film Festival’s U.K. honors on Thursday. Nighy has been selected as the recipient of the annual event’s highest accolade this year in light of his accomplished and vast portfolio of work across film and television, including recent performances in “The Man Who Fell to Earth” and feature film “Living,” for which he is in the running this year for an Oscar and BAFTA for best actor.
He is also known for his turns in “Love Actually,” “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” and West End play “Skylight,” for which he scored a Tony nomination.
The Newport Beach Film Festival U.K. honors, hosted in partnership with Variety, will take place on Feb. 16 in central London and will be presented by Edith Bowman.
As well as honoring recipients in three separate categories – “Breakout Stars,” which includes Lydia West (“Inside Man”) and Nicola Coughlan (“Bridgerton”), “Artists of Distinction,” which includes Letitia Wright (“Black Panther; Wakanda Forever”) and Paul Mescal (“Aftersun”) and Variety‘s “10 Brits to Watch” – the honors also marks the opening of submissions for U.K.
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