Alexander Payne to Receive Advanced Imaging Society’s Harold Lloyd Award

The Advanced Imaging Society announced a pair of special honors that will be presented at its 14th Lumiere Awards.

Alexander Payne will receive the society’s Harold Lloyd Award for achievement in filmmaking, while director Darren Aronofsky and Sphere Entertainment will receive Earthday.org’s Voices For the Earth Award for Postcard from Earth, the first movie made for new Las Vegas entertainment venue Sphere.

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The ceremony will be held Feb. 9 at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Academy Award-winner Payne’s films include Sideways, Nebraska and his latest, The Holdovers, which won a pair of Golden Globes on Sunday for actors Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph.

“We are thrilled to be honoring Alexander Payne, a brilliant filmmaker whose career has inspired audiences by writing and directing nuanced personal stories that reveal deeper realities of American life,” said Suzanne Lloyd, chairman of Harold Lloyd Entertainment. “Harold Lloyd, who, like Alexander Payne, was a native Nebraskan, celebrated authentic human characters who were navigating life with integrity. In the film The Holdovers, Mr. Payne has enlightened us with a beautiful story woven from intimate portraits of unforgettable characters, creating a heartfelt and memorable ode to boyhood, teaching and to an iconic era in the United States.”

Of the Voices For the Earth Award, earthday.org president Kathleen Rogers said, “​Darren Aronofsky’s Postcard From Earth is a tribute to the earth’s beauty and its complexity as well as the technological possibilities of filmmaking itself. Mr. Aronofsky’s stunning film underscores how every single species on the planet is completely dependent on it. There is no backup planet. So, I hope that his work will serve as a timely reminder of why we all need to do more to protect Earth.”

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