Honary Award:
Lifetime Achievement in Entertainment
Awarded to: Mark Rydell
 Barry Primus
Introducing Katharine "Kat" Kramer
Barry Primus’ acting career includes some thirty feature films including Martin Scorsese’s BOXCAR BERTHA, Mark Rydell’s THE RIVER, Sydney Pollack’s ABSENCE OF MALICE, and Paul Mazursky’s DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS. Recently, Primus portrayed Nicholas Ray in the HBO film THE JAMES DEAN STORY. His numerous TV credits include “Knott’s Landing,” “Law and Order,” “The X Files,” and he was a regular on “Cagney and Lacey.” Primus co-wrote and directed MISTRESS, the first production of Robert DeNiro’s Tribeca Film Company, which starred DeNiro, Martin Landau, and Danny Aiello. He has also directed for the stage and is a member of the Actor’s Studio, serving as a moderator for their playwrights and acting sessions.
 Katharine "Kat" Kramer
Introducing Lifetime Achievement Award in Entertainment
Katharine “Kat” Kramer is an actress, producer, and singer, and daughter of legendary filmmaker Stanley Kramer and actress/producer Karen Sharpe Kramer. She is also the goddaughter and namesake of the great Katharine Hepburn, who costarred in director Mark Rydell’s ON GOLDEN POND. Mr. Rydell joined the board of directors of the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center at the request of Ms. Kramer, who is the organization’s West Coast representative. Ms. Kramer is the founder of Kat Kramer’s Films That Change the World, a screening series honoring filmmakers who create socially conscious movies. As an actress, she can be seen in the soon-to-bereleased motion pictures KATIE Q and LITTLE FOCKERS. As a singer, she is working on an album of songs by Mick Jagger, titled “Gemstone,” as well as a related web series, “My Duet with Mick.”
 Mark Rydell
Lifetime Achievement Award in Entertainment
Mark Rydell’s initial training was in music. As a youth, he wanted to be a conductor. He began his career as an actor and first became known for his roles as Walt Johnson on “The Edge of Night“ and as Jeff Baker on “As the World Turns, “ who he played from 1956 to 1962. He won plaudits for his role of violent Jewish mob kingpin Marty Augustine in Robert Altman’s THE LONG GOODBYE (1973). His most recent significant film role was in Woody Allen’s HOLLYWOOD ENDING (2002). As a director, Rydell’s credits include THE REIVERS(1969), THE COWBOYS (1972), CINDERELLA LIBERTY (1973), THE ROSE (1979), ON GOLDEN POND (1981), for which he received an Oscar nomination as Best Director, THE RIVER (1984), FOR THE BOYS (1991) and INTERSECTION (1994). In 2006, Rydell directed the movie EVEN MONEY which starred Kim Basinger, Forest Whitaker, and Danny DeVito. |
