Actor Ann-Margret to be honored at SLO Film Festival
Ann-Margret has been in over 55 films in her career 
–The San Luis Obispo International Film Festival has announced it will award Academy Award nominee and five-time Golden Globe winner Ann-Margret with the prestigious King Vidor Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at the 22nd annual SLO Film Fest in March.
Academy Award-winner Alan Arkin, who received the King Vidor Award in 2010, will present the award to his friend and colleague at the historic Fremont Theatre in Downtown San Luis Obispo on Saturday, March 19.
“I am very much looking forward to coming back. Ann-Margret is as delightful and genuine as a person can be,” said Arkin who co-stars in the May release, “Going In Style,” with Ann-Margret, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine.
After the King Vidor Award ceremony, the festival will honor Ann-Margret with a celebration that includes the George Sidney Independent Film Awards. Ann-Margret, who worked with George Sidney on several films, will participate in the filmmaker awards. Before the presentation, the festival will screen Viva Las Vegas, the 1964 comedy/musical starring Ann-Margret and Elvis Presley, and directed by George Sidney.
Ann-Margret has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, won five Golden Globe Awards, an Emmy, and received five more Emmy nominations. She is a three-time winner of the “Female Star of the Year” award and has been twice honored as “Outstanding Box Office Star of the Year” by the Theatre Owners of America. Ann-Margret was also nominated for a Grammy. She has performed at the White House, received presidential citations for entertaining the U.S. armed forces overseas and was honored by the USO World Board of Governors. During the Vietnam War, Ann-Margret and other entertainers teamed up for a USO tour to entertain U.S. service members in remote parts of Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
Since her 1961 film debut playing Bette Davis’ daughter in A Pocketful of Miracles, Ann-Margret has made over fifty-five films, including such hits as Cincinnati Kid, State Fair, Bye Bye Birdie, Viva Las Vegas, Grumpy Old Men and its sequel. Her two Academy Award nominations were earned in director Mike Nichols’ groundbreaking film, Carnal Knowledge and in the classic Ken Russell rock film, Tommy. A gifted “triple threat” performer, Ann-Margret also starred in the extremely successful, coast-to-coast production of The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, which toured 39 cities. Ann-Margret recently appeared in a two-part episode of Showtime’s highest rated series Ray Donovan, and as well as a number of other TV series.
A number of special-event tickets are on sale now. The complete festival schedule and film lineup will be announced in early February on www.slofilmfest.org.
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