Diane Lane, Matt Dillon, Michelle Monaghan to be Honored at the Savannah Film Festival

Diane Lane
Academy Award-nominated actress Diane Lane ("Unfaithful") will be honored with Outstanding Achievement in Cinema Award at the 15th annual Savannah Film Festival, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design. (PRNewsFoto/Savannah College of Art and Design)
The 15th Annual Savannah Film Festival will be honoring Matt Dillon and Diane Lane with Outstanding Achievement in Cinema Awards at the festival running October 27th thru November 3rd. In addition, Michelle Monaghan will be the recipient of the Spotlight Award for her performance in Tomorrow You’re Gone.

Writer/director Geoffrey Fletcher has been named the winner of this year’s SCAD Cinevation Award which is given to “one director for imagination, inspiration and innovation in cinema.”

Among the films screening at this year’s festival are Silver Linings Playbook (the opening night selection) and Rise of the Guardians (the closing night film).

Other special screenings include:

— Robert Zemeckis’ Flight
— Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet
— Jacques Audiard’s Rust & Bone
— Wayne Blair’s The Sapphires
— Michael Haneke’s Amour
— Walter Salles’ On the Road
— Geoffrey Fletcher’s Violet & Daisy
— Ry Russo-Young’s Nobody Walks
— Matt Ross’ 28 Hotel Rooms
— David Jacobson’s Tomorrow You’re Gone
— Bedabrata Pain’s Chittagong
— Brian Savelson’s In Our Nature
— Ramona Diaz’ Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey
— Julian Jarrold’s The Girl
— Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush’s A Place at the Table
— Matt Dillon’s City of Ghosts
— George Roy Hill’s A Little Romance

Source: Savannah College of Art and Design