Previous Award Winners
2008 Excellence in Acting Award, Gael García Bernal
An actor nearly all his life, Gael García Bernal began performing in stage productions with his parents in Mexico, and later studied at the Central School for Speech and Drama in London.
Bernal then appeared in several plays and short films before his major feature film debut in Alejandro Gonzalez's Amores Perros, which was nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2000. He gained more attention for Alfonso Cuarón's Y Tu Mamá También, where he starred opposite his close friend, Diego Luna.
He subsequently starred in the title role of Carlos Carrera's Academy Award-nominated El Crimen del padre Amaro [The Crime of Father Amaro]. Later Bernal was cast to play the revolutionary leader Che Guevara in Walter Salles's The Motorcycle Diaries.
Gael García Bernal also starred in Pedro Almodóvar's La mala educacíon [Bad Education]. Then worked on James Marsh's independent feature The King. And in Michel Gondry's "The Science of Sleep".
He also stars in Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu "Babel," and in Hector Babenco's "El Pasado". After "Rudo y Cursi", he will star in Fernando Meirelles' "Blindness".
He founded the film production company Canana with Diego Luna and Pablo Cruz in 2005. Since then, they've produced "JC Chavez", "Deficit", "Cochochi" and presently in post production, "Voy a explotar". Together they also run the Ambulante documentary film festival, that travels around several cities in Mexico.
García Bernal made his directorial debut with "Deficit",a low-budget feature film shot in Mexico. He shot with Hector Babenco his movie El Pasado. Also this year he worked with Lukas Moodysson in his movie Mammoth as well as Rudo y Cursi directed by Carlos Cuaron and Blindness with Fernando Meirelles.
Gael García participated in the play Together with the Vesturport Theatre Group in Island and México.
2008 Faith Hubley Memorial Award, Jane Lynch
Jane cut her theatrical teeth at The Second City, Steppenwolf Theatre and in many church basements all over the greater Chicagoland area.
Film credits include the upcoming Julie & Julia, The Post Grad Survival Guide, Little Big Men, Spring Breakdown, Another Cinderella Story, The Rocker and the animated Space Chimps. Past film work includes Christopher Guest's For Your Consideration, A Mighty Wind and Best in Show, as well as Alvin and the Chipmunks, Walk Hard, Talladega Nights, The 40 Year old Virgin, Margaret Cho's Celeste and Bam Bam, Alan Cumming's Suffering Man's Charity, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Sleepover and Surviving Eden.
Recent television credits include Lovespring, a Lifetime original series, Desperate Housewives and Weeds. Jane will appear in the upcoming season of The L Word opposite Cybill Shepherd. She has recurring roles on Boston Legal, Two and a Half Men, Criminal Minds and The New Adventures of Old Christine.
Jane's play Oh Sister, My Sister! has had runs at the Tamarind Theatre and Bang Theater garnering the LA Weekly Comedy Ensemble of the Year Award.
2007 Bacardi Peach Red Lifetime Achievement Award, Kathleen Turner
Veteran actor Kathleen Turner has garnered critical acclaim for her performances in a wide variety of film and theatre.
Turner was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance in Body Heat. She won a Golden Globe Award for her performances in Romancing the Stone and Prizzi's Honor. Her work in Peggy Sue Got Married brought her both an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe nomination, and she earned yet another Golden Globe nomination for War of the Roses.
Turner's extensive film credits also include the critically acclaimed The Virgin Suicides directed by Sofia Coppola, The Man with Two Brains with Steve Martin; Jewel of the Nile with Michael Douglas; Crimes of Passion; The Accidental Tourist; V.I. Warshawski; John Waters' Serial Mom; Naked in New York; and Moonlight and Valentino. It is impossible to forget Turner's standout performance as the sultry voice of Jessica Rabbit in Who framed Roger Rabbit?
In addition to her thriving film career, Turner frequently returns to live theater. Currently Turner is receiving rave reviews on Broadway playing Martha in the revival of Edward Albee's modern classic "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?" In the fall of 2000, Turner broke box-office records starring in the stage version of the classic film "The Graduate" in London's West End,. playing the role of Mrs. Robinson. In 2002 she took "The Graduate" to Broadway. In 1998, she made her British stage debut at the Chichester Festival Theater, which was founded by Sir Laurence Olivier. Recently, Kathleen worked with Michael Lessac who directed Turner as Tallulah Bankhead in Sandra Ryan Heyward's one-woman show Tallulah -- which she toured in across the U.S.
Turner starred on Broadway in Jean Cocteau's Indiscretions. Other stage works include her portrayal of Maggie the Cat, in the 1989 Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Broadway's production of Gemini, and Camille at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Connecticut. Turner also starred in Travesties, The Seagull, Toyer, and A Midsummer's Night Dream at the prestigious Arena Stage in Washington D.C. Kathleen Turner is a Missouri native, but was raised in Canada, Cuba and England where her father was a diplomat.
2007 Excellence in Acting Award, Alan Cumming
Tony and Olivier Award winning actor Alan Cumming has enjoyed success in many acclaimed films (CIRCLE OF FRIENDS, TITUS, EMMA, URBANIA, EYES WIDE SHUT, SWEET LAND and NICHOLAS NICKLEBY) as well as crossing over to blockbusters such as SPY KIDS, X2 and GOLDENEYE. He can next be seen in TIN MEN, an original mini-series offering a new take on The Wizard of Oz, along with Richard Dreyfus and Zooey Deschanel.
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