Colman Domingo Maverick Award at Newport Beach Film Festival

NEWS x MUSE Nicole Alicia Xavier talks with the 2024 Maverick Award recipient at the Newport Beach Film Festival Honors, Colman Domingo.

Newport Beach Film Festival honorees include Nicolas Cage (Icon Award), Joan Chen (Career Achievement Award), Colman Domingo (Maverick Award), Marianna Jean-Baptise (Artist of Distinction), George McShane (Spotlight Award) June Squibb (Lifetime Achievement Award), Sheryl Lee Ralph (Artist of Distinction Award), and Diane Warren (Lifetime Achievement in Music Award).

Expected to attend from Variety’s ‘10 Actors to Watch’ are Monica Barbaro (“A Complete Unknown”), Zoë Chao (“Nightbitch”), Ryan Destiny (“The Fire Inside”), Karla Sofía Gascón (“Emilia Perez”), Fred Hechinger (“Gladiator II”), Ella Hunt (“Saturday Night”), David Jonsson (“Alien: Romulus”), Josh Rivera (“American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez”), Drew Starkey (“Queer”), and Toby Wallace (“Eden”).