The Summer Gala pays tribute to Quentin Tarantino, with a special screening of Inglourious Basterds. In the Fall, the Festival includes Lee Daniels’ Precious and tributes to Uma Thurman, Gabourey Sidibe, Willem Dafoe, Patrice Chéreau, and Martin Landau, who accepts his Lifetime Achievement Award at the same Chicago hotel he stayed at while filming Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest in 1959. Tina Mabry’s Mississippi Damned wins top honors, while other festival favorites that year include Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere and Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, starring Michael Fassbender, winner of a Special Jury Award for acting, his second prize in as many years.
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