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★ LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ★
As an actor, director and
writer, Ed Harris has garnered
a list of credits featuring a
number of prestigious and
award-winning productions.
Born in New Jersey, Mr. Harris
was attending Columbia
University and playing football
there when he became
interested in acting. He
moved to Oklahoma where
his parents were living and
enrolled in the University of
Oklahoma’s theatre program.
Upon graduation, he moved
to Los Angeles and began
working in theatre and film.
One of his first significant
roles was in George
Romero’s Knightriders,
which has become a cult favorite.
Some of his other
film credits include A History
of Violence for which he received
the National Society
of Film Critics Award, The
Hours, for which he received
Oscar, Golden
Globe, SAG and BAFTA
nominations, The Truman
Show for which he received a Golden Globe Award and an
Oscar nomination, and Apollo 13 for which he received a SAG
Award as well as Oscar and Golden Globe nominations.
Some of his other film credits include Run All Night, Frontera,
The Face of Love, The Way Back, Copying Beethoven, The
Right Stuff, The Abyss, The Rock, The Human Stain, A Beautiful
Mind, Stepmom, The Firm, Places in the Heart, Alamo
Bay, Sweet Dreams, Jacknife, State of Grace, The Third Miracle,
Touching Home and fellow 2015 FLIFF honoree Victor
Nunez’s A Flash of Green.
Mr. Harris made his feature film directing debut with Pollock
and received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor for
his performance in the title role. His co-star, Marcia Gay Harden,
won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar under his direction. Mr.
Harris also directed and co-wrote Appaloosa and starred opposite
Viggo Mortensen.
On television, he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting
Actor for his portrayal of John McCain in Game Change on
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HBO for which he also received
Emmy and SAG
nominations. He also
starred with Paul Newman
in Empire Falls for HBO for
which he received Emmy,
Golden Globe and SAG
nominations. Some of his
other television credits include
The Last Innocent
Man, Running Mates, Paris
Trout and Riders of the Purple
Sage, for which he and
his wife and fellow FLIFF
honoree Amy Madigan, as
co-stars and co-producers,
were presented with the
Western Heritage Wrangler
Award for Outstanding Television
Feature Film.
Mr. Harris made his
Broadway debut in Precious
Sons for which he
won the Drama Desk
Award, the Theatre World
Award and received a Tony
Award nomination. In 2012
at the Geffen Playhouse in
Los Angeles, he starred
with Amy Madigan, Bill Pullman
and Glenne Headley in the world premiere of playwright
Beth Henley’s The Jacksonian. He reprised the role last fall to
critical acclaim in the play’s New York premiere at the Acorn
Theatre Off-Broadway. Mr. Harris received both an Outer Critics
Circle nomination and a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for
the Off-Broadway production of Wrecks at New York City’s Public
Theatre. He originated the role, with writer/director Neil
LaBute, for the play’s world premiere at the Everyman Palace
Theatre in Cork, Ireland, and won the 2010 Los Angeles Drama
Critics Circle Award for the production of Wrecks at the Geffen
Playhouse. Some of his other theatre credits include Taking
Sides, Fool for Love for which he won an Obie Award, Simpatico
for which he won a Lucille Lortel Award, Prairie Avenue,
Scar, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Grapes of Wrath and
Sweet Bird of Youth.
Mr. Harris is currently filming the series Westworld for writerdirector
Jonathan Nolan and HBO and recently finished filming
Dean Devlin’s science fiction feature film Geostorm.
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Mr. Harris will attend a screening of his new film THe addeRaLL dIaRIeS on Nov 20, as well as
victor Nunez’ Tribute film a FLaSH oF GReeN and the awards Gala on Nov 21.