Jeff Bridges Gets Honors At Film Festival

PALM SPRINGS – Jeff Bridges, whose career spans decades on the silver and small screens, will be honored at the upcoming Palm Springs International Film Festival awards gala. He will receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award.

“In his remarkable performance in Crazy Heart, he once again shows us why he is considered one of America’s greatest actors,” said Film Fest Executive Director Harold Matzner.

Bridges stars as ‘Bad Blake’ in “Crazy Heart.”Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who’s had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can’t help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician.

Past honorees of the Desert Palm Achievement Award include Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Penn, Jake Gyllenhaal, Liam Neeson, Nicolas Cage, John Travolta and James Stewart.