Ethan Hawke, Deauville Talent Award at the 52^nd Deauville American Film Festival

Upholding its tradition of celebrating exceptional artists of cinema, the Deauville Festival honors Ethan Hawke this year with the Deauville Talent Award.

Actor, screen­writer, direc­tor, and writer, Ethan Hawke has long stood among cin­e­ma’s most dis­tinc­tive and qui­et­ly bril­liant artists. Over near­ly four decades, he has become a mul­ti­fac­eted, crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed artist, earn­ing five Acad­e­my Award nominations—as both an actor and a writer. His most recent Oscar nom­i­na­tion marks his first for Actor in a Lead­ing Role for Blue Moon, his ninth col­lab­o­ra­tion with film­mak­er Richard Lin­klater. In the film, Hawke deliv­ers a career-defin­ing per­for­mance as Lorenz Hart—magnetic, emo­tion­al­ly raw, and deeply human—earning him BAFTA, SAG, Gold­en Globe, Crit­ics Choice and Gotham Award nominations.

Born in Austin, Texas, Ethan Hawke made his first steps in cin­e­ma at four­teen in Explor­ers (1985) before gain­ing wide­spread recog­ni­tion for Dead Poets Soci­ety (1989). He has con­tin­u­al­ly reshaped his screen iden­ti­ty in acclaimed works like Train­ing Day (2001), which earned him his first Oscar nom­i­na­tion, the Before tril­o­gy (1995−2013) for which he received two Oscar nom­i­na­tions for Best Adapt­ed Screen­play, Boy­hood (2014), and First Reformed (2018), earn­ing him over 30 crit­ics prizes—including the rare tri­fec­ta from the New York Film Crit­ics Cir­cle, Los Ange­les Film Crit­ics Asso­ci­a­tion, and Nation­al Soci­ety of Film Crit­ics. His blaz­ing turn in The Good Lord Bird earned him a Peabody, a Gotham Award, and nom­i­na­tions from SAG and the Gold­en Globes.

As a direc­tor, Hawke has craft­ed a per­son­al body of work includ­ing Blaze (2018), Wild­cat (2023), and notable doc­u­men­taries like The Last Movie Stars (2022). He is cur­rent­ly in pro­duc­tion on the sec­ond sea­son of Ster­lin Har­jo’s FX series The Low­down, which he stars in and exec­u­tive pro­duces. Across every genre and for­mat, he remains a fear­less, ever-evolv­ing screen artist.

The cer­e­mo­ny will take place on Sun­day, Sep­tem­ber 6 and will be fol­lowed by the pre­miere screen­ing of The Weight, direct­ed by Padra­ic McKin­ley, in which Ethan Hawke plays the lead role. The film will be released in the­aters on Sep­tem­ber 16 under the SND ban­ner. Sev­er­al of his icon­ic films will also be screened dur­ing the Fes­ti­val to allow the audi­ence to (re)discover his work. As part of the day’s cel­e­bra­tions, he will unveil a Beach Hut bear­ing his name dur­ing a pub­lic cer­e­mo­ny, coin­cid­ing with the pre­sen­ta­tion of the Deauville Tal­ent Award.