The Fort Worth Film Commission announced that Dallas native and actor Luke Wilson will receive the 2023 Bill Paxton Achievement in Film award at the Lone Star Film Festival Gala next month in Fort Worth.
Named for Fort Worth native and Lone Star Film Festival co-founder Bill Paxton, the award celebrates actors, writers, or directors who continue to inspire audiences by taking risks throughout their careers. Past honorees include Taylor Sheridan, LaMonica Garrett, Channing Godfrey Peoples, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater, and many others.
Wilson, best known for Wes Anderson’s Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Old School, and Legally Blonde, also starred in the Fort Worth sports drama 12 Mighty Orphans and is cast in another sports flick with a Fort Worth flavor, You Gotta Believe, based on the 2002 Fort Worth Westside Little League team.
“We’re thrilled to honor Texan Luke Wilson with the Bill Paxton Achievement in Film Award,” Chad Mathews, director of the Lone Star Film Society and Lone Star Film Festival, said in a statement. “Our board of directors wanted to recognize Wilson for all his work in the industry and in films shot in Fort Worth and throughout Texas.”
Others to be honored include actor, musician, and a CEO
The 2023 Lone Star Film Festival Gala also will honor Marty Bowen, TV and film producer and Fort Worth native best known for the TV series Dave and the Neil Armstrong biopic First Man, with the Visionary Award; Charley Crockett, a Texas musician featured on the soundtrack for the 2022 version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, with the Stephen Bruton Award; and David Glasser, the CEO of 101 Studios Co., the production company behind the wildly popular series Yellowstone, with the Pioneer Award presented by the Fort Worth Film Commission.
The Fort Worth Film Commission, a division of Visit Fort Worth, is partnering with the Lone Star Film Society to produce the 2023 gala, set for November 10 at Hotel Drover in Fort Worth, and the festival, which runs November 2-5 at various locations in Fort Worth.
“We’re proud to partner with Lone Star Film Festival for the 7th year,” Jessica Christopherson, VP of marketing and film commissioner, said in a statement. “We’re excited to welcome back Luke Wilson and visitors from all over the U.S. to Fort Worth for the festival and gala.”
Individual seats to the gala are $750 each and tables start at $12,500. Proceeds of all sales go to the Johnny Langdon Film Education Initiative, which provides film education programs for adults as well as high school aged students interested in the art of cinema.
For more information on the gala, go here.
To learn more about the Lone Star Film Festival, go here.
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