Happy New Year everybody! Hope you have enjoyed the Holidays. It’s January and Hollywood is getting ready for awards season. The first stop this year was yesterday’s Palms Springs International Film Festival. Helen Mirren was on hand to introduce “Trumbo” co-star Bryan Cranston, who has received the festival’s spotlight award. Pictures have been added to the photo gallery.

Congratulations to Helen Mirren for receiving a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Critics Choice Movie Awards for “Trumbo”. She shares the category with Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight), Rooney Mara (Carol), Rachel McAdams (Spotlight), Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl) and Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs). This is Helen’s third major nomination for “Trumbo” after receiving nods from both the Hollywood Foreign Press’ Golden Globe Awards and the Screen Actors Guild. The Critics Choice Movie Awards will be handed out on January 17.

Helen’s performane in “Trumbo” is steaming on and seems to become a serious player in the 2016 awards race for Best Supporting Actress. Both the San Francisco Film Critics and the San Diego Film Critics Society have nominated her portrayal as Hedda Hopper, the former includes Elizabeth Banks (Love & Mercy), Mya Taylor (Tangerine) and Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina and The Danish Girl), the latter Olivia Cooke (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), Kristen Stewart (Clouds of Sila Maria), Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight) and Vikander for The Danish Girl. With the recent nods at the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild, odds are on for an Oscar nomination as well. Fingers crossed.

Once again, congratulations to Helen Mirren for receiving a Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress for “Trumbo”. She shares the category with Jane Fonda (Youth), Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight), Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) and Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs). “Trumbo” received a second nomination for Bryan Cranston’s lead performance. This is Helen’s fourteenth nomination at the Golden Globes (with three previous wins for “Losing Chase”, “Elizabeth I.” and “The Queen”). Now, with Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations under her belt, Helen is among the women considered for an Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category. The Golden Globes will be handed out on January 10, 2015.

Congratulations to Helen Mirren for receiving 3 Screen Actors Guild Award nominations this morning! Two nominations for “Trumbo” (as Best Supporting Actress and as part of the Best Ensemble) and one nomination for Best Actress for “Woman in Gold”. This is indeed a crowning achievement for a successful year. She shares the Lead Actress category with Cate Blanchett (Carol), Brie Larson (Room) Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn) and Sarah Silverman (I Smile Back), the Supporting Actress category with Rooney Mara (Carol), Rachel McAdams (Spotlight), Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl) and Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs) and the Ensemble category with Beasts of No Nation, Spotlight, The Big Short and Straight Outta Compton. The SAG Awards will be handed out on Saturday, January 30.

At the 29th Israel Film Festival, Helen Mirren will be honored with the 2015 IFF Career Achievement Award. “We are very proud to honor such an extraordinary talent as Helen Mirren whose work inspires and emotionally moves millions of filmgoers around the world,” said Meir Fenigstein, founder and executive director of IsraFest Foundation. It was previously announced that the IFF will also honor Aaron Sorkin with the Achievement in Film & Television award. The IFF Opening Night Gala takes place Oct 28 at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. The Israel Film Festival will run from Oct. 28 to Nov. 19.

According to Variety, The 2015 Gotham Awards have lined up Robert Redford and Helen Mirren to receive the Gothams’ annual actor tributes, with producer and Anonymous Content founder Steve Golin set to take home the industry award. Both Redford and Mirren will likely have roles to play in the film industry’s upcoming awards season. Redford appears in the Dan Rather Memogate tale “Truth,” which just opened in Toronto, as well as in recent release “A Walk in the Woods,” while Mirren, who starred earlier this year in “Woman in Gold,” appears in upcoming bio “Trumbo,” and then next year in warfare drone drama “Eye in the Sky.” Redford, Mirren and Golin will each receive a tribute award at the Gothams during the 2015 ceremony, as will the previously announced Todd Haynes (“Carol”). The annual event, one of the fall season’s earliest barometers of awards-season buzz, also includes the announcement of winners in eight competitive categories, including feature, documentary, actor and screenplay, among others. Presented every year by New York’s Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the 2015 Gotham Independent Film Awards are set for Nov. 30 at Cipriani Wall Street.

Helen Mirren can be seen out and about in Italy these days. On July 09, she was honored with the Apoxiomeno Award in Florence. On July 13 and 14, she and husband Taylor Hackford have attended the Ischia Global Film & Music Fest. Pictures from all events have been added to the photo gallery. Edit: Pictures from Ischia’s day 4 and 5 have been added as well.

Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2015 – Ischia Global Film & Music Fest – Day 5
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2015 – Ischia Global Film & Music Fest – Day 4
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2015 – Ischia Global Film & Music Fest – Day 2
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2015 – Ischia Global Film & Music Fest – Day 1
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2015 – Helen Mirren Honored with Apoxiomeno Award

There’s no slowing down for Helen since her Tony win. Last week, she has attended the New York premiere of Julie Taymor’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, the Wrap’s Power Women Breakfast (you can watch her conversation panel here). Helen has also been honored by The World Jewish Congress for her work in “Woman in Gold”. Pictures from all events have been added to the photo gallery.

Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2015 – Honor By The World Jewish Congress
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2015 – The Wrap’s Power Women Breakfast
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2015 – “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” New York Premiere

Over 100 additional pictures from the Tony Awards’ arrivals, show and press room have been added to the photo gallery, alongside some funny pictures of Helen’s backstage visit at Broadway’s “Hand of God”.

Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2015 – “Hand of God” Broadway Visit
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2015 – 69th Annual Tony Awards – Arrivals
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2015 – 69th Annual Tony Awards – Show
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2015 – 69th Annual Tony Awards – Press Room