Samuel L. Jackson to be Honored at MoMA Film Benefit Presented by Chanel

The 2024 MoMA Film Benefit, sponsored by Chanel, will pay tribute to Samuel L. Jackson.

The actor has been announced as the honoree for this year’s event, which celebrates trailblazers in the film industry while raising support for MoMA’s film department. On Oct. 23, Jackson will join his VIP peers inside the museum’s theater, where his friends and collaborators will pay tribute to the actor’s career.

MoMA Celeste Bartos chief curator of film Rajendra Roy praised the actor as a “landmark cultural figure thanks to his early film work with Spike Lee, which transfixed both audiences and critics, and his biblically powerful turn as the wise and merciless assassin Jules in ‘Pulp Fiction.’”

From Oct. 4 to 16, MoMA will screen several of Jackson’s films as part of its “Samuel L. Jackson: A Tribute” series. Jackson has starred in more than 150 films, and is the highest-grossing actor at the global box office. In 2022, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award.

A still from “The Piano Lesson.” John David Washington as Boy Willie, Samuel L. Jackson as Doaker Charles, Michael Potts as Wining Boy and Ray Fisher as Lymon. 

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Jackson next stars in a new film adaptation of August Wilson’s play “The Piano Lesson,” directed by Malcolm Washington. Jackson originated the role of Boy Willie when the play premiered in 1987, and portrays Doaker Charles, the boy’s uncle, in the film, set to be released in early November. The film follows a 2022 Broadway revival of the play, during which Jackson received a Tony nomination for his role.

Chanel has sponsored the MoMA Film Benefit since 2011. Past honorees include Jackson’s frequent collaborator Quentin Tarantino, as well as Guillermo del Toro, Penélope Cruz, George Clooney, Laura Dern, Martin Scorsese, Julianne Moore and Tom Hanks. The annual benefit wasn’t held in 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike.

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