Academy Museum’s second gala to honour CJ’s Miky Lee, Steven McQueen, Tilda Swinton

The Academy Museum’s second annual gala will honour CJ Group’s Miky Lee, writer-director Steven McQueen and actor Tilda Swinton on October 15.

Lee, vice-chairwoman of South Korea’s CJ Group, will receive the Pillar Award acknowledging “exemplary leadership and support for the Academy Museum”.

McQueen, whose most recent work includes the Small Axe anthology and is currently working on the documentary Occupied City, will receive the Vantage Award recognising an artist or scholar who has helped to “contextualize and challenge dominant narratives around cinema”.

Swinton, seen most recently in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Colombian Oscar submission Memoria which has just gone on release in the US, will collect the Visionary Award honoring an artist or scholar “whose extensive body of work has advanced the art of cinema”.

Halle Berry will co-chair the fundraiser event with Jason Blum, Ryan Murphy and Lupita Nyong’o. The 2021 Academy Museum Gala raised more than $11m for film, educational, and access programming. Additional details about the 2022 gala will be announced in the coming months.

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