Kerry Condon, Brendan Fraser, Mark Hamill, Diane Lane, Francine Maisler, Noah Schnapp, Jenny Slate, Tessa Thompson and Steven Gaydos have been the named the recipients of 2025 Festival Honors at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
Diane Lane (Anniversary), Mark Hamill (Life of Chuck) and Academy Award Winner Brendan Fraser (Rental Family) will each receive the Icon Award; Kerry Condon (F1 & Train Dreams) and Jenny Slate (Dying for Sex) will both receive the Artist of Distinction Award; Tessa Thompson (Hedda) will receive the Outstanding Achievement in Acting Award; Noah Schnapp (Stranger Things) will receive the Spotlight Award; Francine Maisler (Sinners & Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere) will receive the Casting Visionary Award and Steven Gaydos (Journalist & Screenwriter) will be honored with the Arts Champion Award.
The Festival Honors event will also recognize Variety 10 Actors to Watch: Milly Alcock (Supergirl), Ella Anderson (Song Sung Blue), Tonatiuh (Kiss of the Spider Woman), Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value), Miles Caton (Sinners), Guillaume Marbeck (Nouvelle Vague), Mari Yamamoto (Rental Family), Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another), and Jay Lycurgo (Steve, Peaky Blinder).
This year’s honorees will also be joined by honorees Scarlett Johansson who will receive the Variety Legend & Groundbreaker Award at the brunch and Rian Johnson who will receive Best Director Award a screening of “Wake Up Dead Man” on Friday, October 17th. The 2025 Newport Beach Film Festival highlights include the Opening Night film Blue Moon and the Closing Night film Frankenstein. Centerpiece films include Hedda, Nouvelle Vague, Sentimental Value and Wake Up Dead Man.
In conjunction with Variety 10 Actors to Watch, the recipients will honored at the Festival’s annual brunch on Sunday, October 19, 2025. The Honors event will be filmed for broadcast and aired in the key awards voting window in January on PBS SoCal.
The 26th edition of the festival will be held from October 16-23 and will spotlight over 100 feature films from around the world.
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