Ellen Burstyn To Be Honored At Gotham Film Awards With Performer Tribute

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn has been set to receive the Performer Tribute at the 36th annual Gotham Film Awards. The honor will be bestowed at the ceremony November 30 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.

The tribute will celebrate Burstyn’s body of work across film, TV and theater and her longstanding leadership in the New York arts community via her work with the Actors Studio, organizer the Gotham Film & Media Institute said. It comes as Burstyn most recently starred in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s buzzy short film Flesh Impact in which she plays a 100-year-old Marilyn Monroe. Gyllenhaal will present the honor to Burstyn at the ceremony.

“For nearly seven decades, Ellen Burstyn has brought fearless honesty and extraordinary emotional depth to every stage and screen she has graced,” said Jeffrey Sharp, Executive Director of the Gotham Film & Media Institute. “From The Last Picture Show and The Exorcist to Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Resurrection and Requiem for a Dream, her performances have helped define American cinema. Her remarkable achievements in film, television, and theater are matched by her dedication to nurturing fellow artists. We are honored to celebrate her enduring influence and a body of work that continues to inspire generations of audiences and filmmakers.”

Burstyn won the Oscar for Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and a Tony Award for Same Time, Next Year both in 1975. She has been nominated for six Oscars in her career, and also won Emmys for Law & Order: SVU and Political Animals. She was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at this year’s Venice Film Festival, where Flesh Impact had its world premiere.

Burstyn joins an honorees list for this year’s Gotham Film Awards that already includes Danny Boyle, who is receiving the Gotham Director Tribute for Ink; the Andrew Scott-starring Elsinore, receiving the Gotham Legacy Tribute; the Michael Jackson biopic Michael receiving the Gotham Musical Tribute; La Bola Negra receiving the Gotham Vanguard Tribute; and animation studio Laika receiving the Gotham Anniversary Tribute.