Lily Tomlin to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at ICG's Publicist Luncheon

Comedienne Lily Tomlin will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 53rd Annual International Cinematographers Guild Publicists Awards Luncheon, to be held at the Beverly HIlton Hotel on January 26.

The beloved comedienne has made her mark across all mediums, from television to movies to theater, from comedy to drama to animation. Anyone who is old enough will remember Ernestine, the telephone operator and Edith Ann, the devilish six-year-old in TV's Laugh-In more than 40 years ago. And just this year she was nominated for two Golden Globes, lead actress in a comedy series for Netflix's Gracie and Frankie and lead actress in a comedy film for Sony Classsics' Grandma.

In between she has received five Emmys, a Writers Guild Award and a Screen actors Guild nomination and that's just for television.

Tomlin made her Broadway debut in 1977 with the hugely successful APPEARING NITELY, written and directed by her partner Jane Wagner and adapted as both an album and an HBO special. Her next Broadway appearance was in THE SEARCH FOR INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE, which ran SRO for a year.

She was nominated for an Oscar for her work in Robert Altman's NASHVILLE, her film debut. Since then she has starred in dozens of movies, both drama and comedy, including 9 to 5, Woody Allen's Shadows and Fog, Short Cuts and the film adapatation of The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.

Photo credit: Greg Gorman

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