Samuel L. Jackson will be the 2024 MoMA Film Benefit honoree during the Oct. 23 gala dinner sponsored by Chanel.
The actor has been announced as the honoree for this year’s event, which celebrates trailblazers in the film industry while raising support for MoMA’s film department. On Oct. 23, Jackson will join his VIP peers inside the museum’s theater, where his friends and collaborators will pay tribute to the actor’s career.
MoMA Celeste Bartos chief curator of film Rajendra Roy praised the actor as a “landmark cultural figure thanks to his early film work with Spike Lee, which transfixed both audiences and critics, and his biblically powerful turn as the wise and merciless assassin Jules in ‘Pulp Fiction.
From Oct. 4 to 16, MoMA will screen several of Jackson’s films as part of its “Samuel L. Jackson: A Tribute” series. Jackson has starred in more than 150 films, and is the highest-grossing actor at the global box office. In 2022, he was awarded an HonoraryA still from “The Piano Lesson.” John David Washington as Boy Willie, Samuel L. Jackson as Doaker Charles, Michael Potts as Wining Boy and Ray Fisher as Lymon.
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