Holly Hunter will receive the Career Achievement Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s Awards Gala, PSIFF organizers announced on Wednesday.
Hunter is a strong Best Supporting Actress candidate this year for her role in “The Big Sick.” The film is based on the real-life courtship of co-writers Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, with Hunter playing the mother of Emily (Zoe Kazan), a young woman who develops a mysterious illness that puts her in a coma. She is visited in the hospital by her ex-boyfriend, Kumail (Nanjiani, playing a version of himself), who arouses the suspicion of Hunter’s character.