25th Anniversary Palm Springs International Film Festival
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No surprise here, Hollywood’s best actress Meryl Streep, with more awards under her belt that I can list, received the Icon Award over the weekend at the prestigious Palm Springs Int Film Festival.

Streep’s current movie ‘August: Osage County’ is a top contender for award season.

All of Tinseltown was there, well the important people anyway. Hanks, Bullock, Roberts.

You get the picture.

Award season has officially kicked off into high gear.

Other stars who were honored during the Cartier-sponsored gala included Steve McQueen (Director of the Year), Lupita Nyong’o, (Breakthrough Performance Award), Bruce Dern (Career Achievement Award), Thomas Newman (The Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing), Julia Roberts (Spotlight Award), Matthew McConaughey (Desert Palm Achievement Award), U2 (Sonny Bono Visionary Award, the cast of American Hustle and Tom Hanks (Chairman’s Award).