Sarah Bolger wins ‘Wilde Card’ Award
Actress Sarah Bolger will be honored at the sixth annual ‘Oscar Wilde: Honoring the Irish in Film,’ on 24th February at The Ebell of Los Angeles. She will be presented with the ‘Wilde Card’ award, which was inaugurated last year to honor rising talent in the film industry. The invite-only, pre-Academy Awards party is hosted by the US-Ireland Alliance and sponsored by Culture Ireland, the Irish Film Board and American Airlines.
Also being honored this year will be casting agents Ros and John Hubbard. Singer and actress Maria Doyle Kennedy will perform. Ms. Doyle Kennedy was cast by the Hubbard’s in The Commitments, the iconic Irish film that marks its twentieth anniversary in 2011.
Past honorees of the award have included J.J. Abrams, Saoirse Ronan (the first recipient of the ‘Wilde Card’, Seamus McGarvey, Hylda Queally, Brendan Gleeson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Fiona Shaw, Colm Meaney, Jim Brooks, Van Morrison, Bill Monahan, Terry George, Neil Jordan, Jim Sheridan and David Holmes.
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