The Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala took place Saturday night at the Palm Springs Convention Center. It made for an evening of unusual juxtapositions, a glitzy event for a room full of finely dressed, well-to-do people to celebrate movies on financial collapse, emotional despair, the struggle to survive and the like. The event, in a room of some 2,400 people, brings in about $2.4 million for the Palm Springs International Film Society. The event has also become increasingly important within the larger picture of awards season, because over the last three years 28 of the event’s 31 honourees have gone on to an Academy Award nomination in that year.

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