Palm Springs Bestowing 'Flight''s Robert Zemeckis with Director of the Year Award

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by Sophia Savage
November 28, 2012 12:35 PM
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Robert Zemeckis will receive the Palm Springs International Film Festival's Director of the Year Award for "Flight." The festival, in its 24th year, runs January 3-14. PSIFF is also honoring Helen Hunt with its Spotlight Award and Naomi Watts with its Desert Palm Achievement Award for Acting at a January 5 awards gala, during the runup to the Oscars.

Zemeckis joins past honorees David O. Russell, Jason Reitman, Sean Penn, Alexander Payne, Stephen Daldry, Ang Lee and Anthony Minghella.

Zemeckis' past films include "Forrest Gump" (for which he won the Oscar for Best Director), "Cast Away," "What Lies Beneath," "Back to the Future," "Contact" and many others.

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