Susan Sarandon is CinemaCon’s Cinema Icon Award Winner

Meddler Susan Sarandon and Rose Byrne
Susan Sarandon as Marnie Minervini and Rose Byrne as Lori Minervini in ‘The Meddler’ (Photo by Jaimie Trueblood / Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
Oscar winner Susan Sarandon has been chosen to receive the 2016 Cinema Icon Award at this year’s CinemaCon, the annual gathering of National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO). Sarandon will accept the honor during CinemaCon’s Big Screen Achievement Awards ceremony taking place at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on April 14th. The 2016 CinemaCon will run April 11-14th.


“Since making her feature film debut in 1970’s Joe Susan Sarandon has brought some of the most unforgettable and versatile performances to the big screen,” said Mitch Neuhauser, Managing Director of CinemaCon. “She has continued to entertain and inspire audiences throughout her career with the breadth of intelligence and fearless portrayals that she has brought to some of the most challenging roles on screen and we could not be more delighted to honor such an amazing actress with this years ‘Cinema Icon Award.’”

Sarandon will next be seen in Sony Pictures Classics’ The Meddler opening in theaters on April 22nd. The Meddler finds Sarandon playing “recently widowed Marnie Minervini who has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori (Rose Byrne) a successful (but still single) screenwriter, and smother her with motherly love. But when the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and forceful generosity to change the lives of others- as well as her own – and find a new purpose in life.”

Sarandon’s other credits include The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pretty Baby, Bull Durham, Step Mom, The Witches of Eastwick, Thelma and Louise, Lorenzo’s Oil, The Client, Atlantic City, Dead Man Walking, A World Apart, Bernard and Doris, and You Don’t Know Jack. In addition to Sarandon, CinemaCon will honor Stephen Amell with the Male Star of Tomorrow Award, Bryce Dallas Howard with the Award for Excellence in Acting, and Nate Parker with the Breakthrough Director of the Year Award.