Coolidge Award

The Coolidge Award, launched in 2004, recognizes a film artist whose work advances the spirit of original and challenging cinema. 

We are thrilled to honor legendary actor, filmmaker, producer, and author, Ethan Hawke.

About ETHAN HAWKE

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" is a phrase a young Ethan Hawke took to heart while filming Dead Poets Society, the iconic film that launched his career. Over the past 30 years, Hawke has become a multifaceted, critically acclaimed artist—an actor, writer, director, producer, and best-selling novelist—earning four Academy Award nominations, both as an actor and a writer.

As a filmmaker, he most recently directed and co-wrote Wildcat, a biopic about Flannery O’Connor starring Maya Hawke, Laura Linney, and Steve Zahn. His banner, Under the Influence, also produced the six-part Paul Newman-Joanne Woodward docuseries The Last Movie Stars, directed by Hawke and produced by Martin Scorsese; and the acclaimed FX drama The Lowdown, which Hawke stars in and executive produces.

His expansive onscreen filmography includes his Oscar-nominated performances in Training Day and Boyhood, his Independent Spirit and Gotham Award-winning performance in First Reformed, plus his work in films such as Gattaca, Reality Bites, The Purge, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Great Expectations, White Fang, and the celebrated Before trilogy (for which he received two writing Oscar nominations alongside his collaborators Julie Delpy and Richard Linklater).