Paul Rudd to receive 'Honorary Irishman’ award

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Actor Paul Rudd will be honored at the sixth annual ‘Oscar Wilde: Honoring the Irish in Film,’ event on 24th February at The Ebell of Los Angeles. Paul will be presented with the ‘Honorary Irishman’ award. Previous recipients of the award were Jim Brooks and J.J. Abrams.

Also being honored this year will be casting agents Ros and John Hubbard. Actress Sarah Bolger will receive the ‘Wilde Card’ award, which recognises rising talent in film. Singer and actress Maria Doyle Kennedy will perform. Actor Donal Logue will emcee the event.

Paul will next star in Jesse Peretz’s My Idiot Brother. The film premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and will be released by The Weinstein Company later this year.

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.