rising Star award:
Excellence in acting award:
annaSophia robb
hal holbrook
Only 15 years old and five years into her career, AnnaSophia Robb
Don’t misunderstand: Hal Holbrook is very happy and deeply grateful to
already has 10 films and eight leading roles to her credit.
receive this year’s Excellence in Acting award. But if you push the Emmy-
and Tony-winning legend on the subject, he’ll suggest that maybe the prize
She has shared the screen with some of Hollywood’s most talented stars,
is a tad premature, because he still considers himself, at 84, a student of his
including Jeff Daniels in Wayne Wang’s Because of Winn-Dixie (2005);
art. “Even now,” Holbrook says, “I’m learning more about film work.”
Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005),
in which she played as the gum-smacking Violet Beauregarde; and Hilary
That’s an awfully modest admission for a man who has offered such a diver-
Swank in the supernatural thriller The Reaping (2007). For her role in
sity of performances over the course of decades: a loving father worried
Bridge to Terabithia (2007), Robb was awarded Best Leading Actress in
about revealing his homosexuality to his teenage son (That Certain Summer,
a Feature Film at the 2008 Young Artist Awards. She also showcased her
1972). An enigmatic informant who’s at once cynical and saddened about
singing talents for the soundtrack, even recording a single, “Keep Your
his role in toppling a world leader (All the President’s Men, 1976). A lonely
Mind Open.” Last year, Robb costarred in Overture Films’ Sleepwalking
widower who offers to serve as surrogate grandfather to a tragically
with Charlize Theron, Nick Stahl, Dennis Hopper, and Woody Harrelson;
discontented wanderer (Into the Wild, 2007). And, most recently, an
earlier this year, she appeared in Disney’s Race to Witch Mountain, and
octogenarian farmer who won’t give up his land or his pride without a fight
she will soon be seen opposite Melissa Leo in The Space Between.
(That Evening Sun, 2009). And yet, to hear Holbrook tell it, for all his work
in movies and television – to say nothing of his stellar stage performances,
Yet despite all her star turns, this Denver native hasn’t let her remark-
most notably as witty sage Samuel Clemens in Mark Twain Tonight! – his
able talent go to her head. Robb and her family still reside in Denver,
education in craft is far from over.
where she attends public high school and lives a “regular” teen life
filled with homework, sleepovers, and cross-country meets – when she is
Fortunately, he says, he’s always managed to find the right teachers when
not filming or traveling the globe to promote humanitarian efforts, that
he needed them. From director Sidney Lumet – who guided him through
is. This rising star has her feet firmly planted on the ground.
his first film appearance in The Group (1966) – Holbrook learned that less
is more. “What you have to understand about film work,” he vividly recalls
It is clear that AnnaSophia Robb has a long and bright future as an
Lumet telling him, “is that the camera can read your mind.” And he credits
actor, and the Starz Denver Film Festival is proud to present her with this
another “wonderful director,” Sean Penn, with giving him the confidence
year’s Rising Star Award.
Sponsored by:
to plumb emotional depths for his Oscar-nominated turn in Into the Wild.
BrITTA erICKSON “He gave you the feeling that anything that came out of you was OK,”
Holbrook says – “that he would take care of you or catch you if you fell.”
While playing the irascible Abner Meecham in That Evening Sun, Holbrook
says, his initial instinct was “to make sure the audience understood the
emotional trip he was on.” But writer/director Scott Teems convinced him
to avoid any obvious requests for sympathy and play the character rather as
unsentimental, even harsh. The result: a powerful performance that even
Special thanks to:
the chronically self-critical Holbrook ranks among his best work.
“Yes,” Holbrook says, “after all these years, I think I’m finally starting to
learn something about film acting.” That’s what we call an understatement.
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JOe LeyDON
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