On the way to winning an Oscar — you know she will win one someday — Glenn Close will leave her handprints and footprints in cement at the TCL Chinese Theatre during the TCM Classic Film Festival.
The ceremony — a cherished Hollywood tradition and a highlight of the festival each year — will take place May 1 before hundreds of fans, and some might just cackle like Cruella de Vil.
Close will also be on hand that afternoon for a screening at the Chinese of Stephen Frears’ Dangerous Liaisons (1988), for which she received the fifth of her eight Oscar nominations.
“To this day, I can remember the first time I saw Glenn Close on the big screen,” TCM Primetime host Ben Mankiewicz said in a statement. “Though her film debut came a year earlier in The World According to Garp (earning an Oscar nomination), I’ll never forget seeing her in The Big Chill, delivering a memorably layered performance that revealed the extraordinary talent, intelligence and emotional depth that have defined her career ever since.
“More than four decades later, she continues to captivate audiences — from her earliest roles to powerful later performances like the one in The Wife — and we are proud to honor her enduring legacy at this year’s festival.”
Close, 79, has won three Emmys, three Tonys and three Golden Globes since she began her professional acting career in 1974.
The Connecticut native landed best actress Oscar noms for her work in Fatal Attraction (1987), Dangerous Liaisons, Albert Nobbs (2011) and The Wife (2019) and supporting noms for her turns in The World According to Garp (1982), The Big Chill (1983), The Natural (1984) and Hillbilly Elegy (2020).
This will be the 13th such ceremony in TCM Classic Film Festival history. Close follows in the footsteps (pun intended) of Peter O’Toole — who also had eight Oscar noms without a win — in 2011, Kim Novak in 2012, Jane Fonda in 2013, Jerry Lewis in 2014, Christopher Plummer in 2015, Francis Ford Coppola in 2016, Carl and Rob Reiner in 2017, Cicely Tyson in 2018, Billy Crystal in 2019, Lily Tomlin in 2022, Jodie Foster in 2024 and Michelle Pfeiffer last year.
The 17th annual festival, with the theme “The World Comes to Hollywood,” opens April 30 with a screening of Barefoot in the Park (1967) and runs through May 3. Barbara Hershey and Paul Williams will receive tributes, and Bruce Goldstein will be presented with the Robert Osborne Award.
Information about the festival is available here.