Elton John performed a set of five songs, Billie Eilish appeared on the red carpet for the first time with her new boyfriend Jesse Rutherford, director Park Chan-wook and artist Helen Pashgian were honored at LACMA’s 11order Annual Art Film Gala on Saturday night.
Park – considered a top contender for the Best Director Oscar nomination for his new film Decided to leave, which is the Korean event for best international feature film – drew cheers from the crowd as he accepted his honor. His speech demonstrated the accepted standards for touting one’s performance in Korea compared to the United States.
“Initially I just wanted to have the following words, ‘I don’t know how to thank you for an award that is beyond me.’ But I remembered advice from a friend familiar with both Korean and American culture. She told me you shouldn’t be too modest in the US… So I’ll take that advice and instead say the following words, ‘I’m not surprised at all by the award I’m clear on deserved,’ said Park. he is celebrating 30 years as a feature film director.
Park was introduced by Squid game actor Lee Byung Hun starred in the director’s 2000 film General security area, a career breakthrough for both of them after a number of failed attempts. (Lee turned down one of Park’s bombs.)
“Both me and director Park have experienced catastrophic failures together on separate paths. Lee said. “We were both depressed at the time, thinking if director Park or I could make another movie. Then one day, director Park offered me another role. A failed director and a failed actor came together to create a new project – a perfect idea.”
When they eventually banded together on the Joint Security Area, the film, Lee recalls, “broke the box office record of Korean films. [and] changed the history of Korean cinema”. Both Lee, as well as LACMA CEO and director Michael Govan, noted the recent gruesome Halloween tragedy in Seoul, South Korea, where more than 150 people were killed. “Please join me in keeping all the victims and their families in our thoughts and prayers,” Lee said.
The show, co-hosted by LACMA trustees Eva Chow and Leonardo DiCaprio (who was absent from the event for the first time in its 11-year history), raised over $5 million for the overall mission of the museum. museum and for movie shows. According to the name of LACMA’s Art + Film gala, every year honors not only a film director but also a visual artist. This year’s honoree, Helen Pashgian, is known as a pioneer member of the California Light and Space art movement of the 1960s. Pashgian received his honor with a poetic speech about the role of Southern California’s distinctive lighting in both cinema and the fine arts.
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“If you talk to a filmmaker today, he or she can tell you that lighting is both fascinating and infuriating. Angry [because] like you’ve set up a perfect shot, it will drift away. If you talk to a visual artist, they can tell you that flight is flat, it’s cool, it bleaches the gloss. If you go to Caltech and talk to their atmospheric scientists, they can tell you that photons of light mix with dust particles in the air to create what they call light scattering and This scattering phenomenon is unique to this region. … I like to think that in the end, this strange light of ours remains what it has always been: the elusive mystery that cannot be foreseen, and therein lies its magic.”
The night kicked off with a red carpet appearance when Eilish and Rutherford, lead singers of the band The Neighborhood, arrived in matching pajamas and a blanket for two, all sponsored by Gucci, longtime of the Art + Film Gala. Rutherford and Eilish, who also wore a Gucci sleeping mask, held hands throughout the evening.
During the cocktail portion of the night, DJ D-Nice shoots tunes in a courtyard area adjacent to LACMA’s new Peter Zumthor-designed David Geffen Galleries building. Fifty percent complete, its outline can be seen up close, while a pair of cranes peeks over the assembled guests.
Among those dressed in Gucci were Elliot Page (who hung out at the party with comedian Mae Martin), Olivia Wilde (in a sequined chevron dress paired with bright red evening gloves), Janelle Monae, Lindsay Vonn, Salma Hayek and husband Francois-Henri Pinault (chairman and chief executive officer of Gucci owner Kering), Jodie Turner-Smith, Julia Garner, Idris Elba and Sabrina Dhowre Elba, Carey Mulligan and Henry Golding .
Quinta Brunson, in a black and teal taffeta dress, was carrying a beaded bag in the shape of a beer can. “This is my beer. As for the Phillies,” the Philadelphia native told a guest. Jared Leto, wearing a Gucci velvet tuxedo with crystals, took a few photos of Sydney Sweeney, who wore a pink Giambattista Valli dress with romantic rose details. Andrew Garfield chats around with film artist Vito Schnabel.
Other celebrities spotted in the crowd were Heidi Klum, Sebastian Stan, Addison Rae (who had the most concave neckline of the evening), Diego Calva, Jude Law, Kathryn Hahn, Elizabeth Banks, Kendall Jenner, model Alessandra Ambrosio and Halima Aden, Blackpink’s Rosé, Sean Penn, Sandra Oh and Paris Hilton with husband Carter Reum. Last summer, Hilton gave LACMA an acquisition fund to purchase digital artworks by female artists.
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Inside a specially designed booth, guests dine on a menu created by Gucci Osteria in collaboration with Joachim Splichal that features beef tortellini with parmigiano reggiano sauce. At a long table, Kim Kardashian was having a deep conversation with Bob Iger. Later, Kardashian and her sister Kendall Jenner posed for a photo with Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele.
Representing the art world and museums are artists Henry Taylor, Catherine Opie, Charles Gaines, Lauren Halsey, Calida Rawles and Rashaad Newsome, along with the director and executive director of the Lucas Museum of Art Sandra Jackson-Dumont and Jacqueline Stewart Museum director and president.
At the end of dinner – also assisted by Audi – Idris Elba ordered the guests to return outside for dessert and enjoy a special performance by Elton John, who was playing on a grand piano. red, sang hits like Your song, Rocket Man and Don’t let the sun go down on mewhich he dedicated to the party guest Taron Egerton who portrayed him in 2019 Rocket Man.
Appearing in the crowd were directors Chloé Zhao, Rian Johnson and Damien Chazelle; Rick and Kathy Hilton; Amazon Studios’ new head of marketing Sue Kroll; designer Peter Dundas and her husband Evangelio Bousis; Christie’s Vice President Sonya Roth; California Film Commission head Colleen Bell and her husband Bradley Bell; Michael Ovitz and Tamara Mellon; Wendy Stark Morrissey; Linda May of Hilton & Hyland; architect Kulapat Yantrasast; jewelry designer Loree Rodkin; and LACMA co-chairs Elaine Wynn and Tony Ressler.
After the show, crowds flocked to the pick-up bartender on Wilshire Avenue, where a crowd of fans chanted Eilish’s name, trying to get her attention. The singer and Rutherford are standing next to a large black SUV that her brother Finneas, girlfriend Claudia Sulewski, it looks like Eilish and Rutherford are cooling their heels waiting for their own transport arrive. Finally, as fans chanted “We love you Billie” rang out, Eilish stood on top of the SUV’s runner and shouted back, “I love you too.” Minutes later, a sprint truck appeared and took the couple away for the evening. (Many guests attended the after-party at co-chair Chow’s Holmby Hills mansion.)
Dressed in an evening suit and its theme of combining the worlds of cinema and art, actor Simu Liu left the party by walking past Chris Burden’s large-scale street light sculpture. Urban light while a friend took his picture.
