'Moneyball' Director Bennett Burns to obtain Recognition at Hollywood Film Honours (Exclusive)

Attila Dory/The brand new the new sony Pictures Classics The 15th annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Honours, presented by Starz Entertainment, will recognition Academy Award nominee Bennett Burns having its 2011 Hollywood Director Award. Burns continues to be famous for his target the considerably acclaimed blockbuster Moneyball, which was modified from Michael Lewis's best-selling novel and stars Kaira Pitt as Concord A's gm Billy Beane. Burns will collect his statuette within the Hollywood Honours Gala Ceremony, which will exist in the Beverly Hilton on March. 24. Right before this film, which Burns transformed Oscar champion Steven Soderbergh, the 44-year-old was most broadly noted for his direction of Capote, his feature directorial debut. That film received an Oscar jerk for top picture, acquired a best actor Oscar for Philip Seymour Hoffmanand introduced to best director nods within the Academy, Company company directors Guild of America and BAFTA for Burns. (The NY Film Experts Circle also granted him its prize for top first film.) PHOTOS: 'Moneyball' Premiere in Concord Carlos p Abreu, the founder and executive director in the event, told The Hollywood Reporter, "With Moneyball, Bennett Burns has provided us a stylish film, from what many referred to as an 'unfilmable' book, which we're thrilled to recognition him." He added, "Bennett found a person's heart in this story of baseball statistics and brought the astonishing performances of Kaira Pitt, Jonah Hill, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. 'Capote' will be a masterful debut, and Moneyball further proves that Burns features a real gift for breathing existence into complex material." Previous visitors in the Hollywood Director Award include Norman Jewison, John Schlesinger, John Frankenheimer, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Michael Mann, Mike Mendes, Oliver Stone, Marc Forster, Clint Eastwood, Kathryn Bigelowand Tom Hooper. Just several days after collecting their Hollywood Film Festival Award, Bigelow and Hooper ongoing to win that year's best director Oscar, while Scorsese received a nomination. Q&A: 'Moneyball' Author Michael Lewis on Oscar Hopes, Coping With Kaira Pitt and also the New 'Liar's Poker' Script In recent days, since the Race was the first to report, p Abreu revealed the visitors of numerous other honours, too (that derive from p Abreu together with a panel of experts): the cast in the Help for your Hollywood Ensemble Award Oscar champion George Clooney (The Descendants) for your Hollywood Actor Award Oscar nominee Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn, Meek's Cutoff, Take This Waltz) for your Hollywood Actress Award Oscar nominee Christopher Plummer (Beginners) for your Hollywood Supporting Actor Award Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan (Shame, Drive) for your Hollywood Supporting Actress Award Oscar champion Diablo Cody (Youthful Adult) for your Hollywood Film author Award Rango for your Hollywood Animation Award Letty Aronson (Evening amount of time in Paris) for your Hollywood Producer Award Oscar nominee Emmanuel Lubezki (The Tree of Existence) for your Hollywood Cinematographer Award Oscar champion Stephen Mirrione (The Ides of March) while using Hollywood Editor Award Oscar nominee Alberto Iglesias (The Skin Home Is, Mess Tailor Soldier Spy) for your Hollywood Film Composer Award Oscar nominee James Murakami (J. Edgar) for your Hollywood Production Designer Award Oscar champion Scott Farrar (Transformers: Dark in the Moon) for your Hollywood Visual Effects Award Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) for your Hollywood Breakthrough Director Award Ernest Gordon-Levitt (50/50) for your Hollywood Breakthrough Actor Award Jessica Chastain (Coriolanus, Your Financial Troubles, The Help, Take Shelter, as well as the Tree of Existence) for your Hollywood Breakthrough Actress Award Felicity Manley (Constantly) for your New Hollywood Award Bérénice Bejo (The Artist), Jean Dujardin (The Artist), Elle Fanning (Super 8), Amber Heard (The Rum Diary), Andrea Riseborough (W.E), Shailene Woodley (The Descendants), and Anton Yelchin (Constantly) for your Hollywood Spotlight Award and Oscar nominee Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs) for your Hollywood Career Achievement Award. TORONTO REVIEW: Moneyball More youthful crowd introduced the nominees with this particular year's Hollywood Film Award, which is dependant on everyone through voting round the Yahoo! Movies website, are Captain America: The Initial Avenger, Cowboys & Aliens, Harry Potter as well as the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2, The Help, Pirates in the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Rango, Rise in the Planet in the Apes, Super 8, Transformers: Gloomy in the Moon, and X-Males: Top Quality. RELATED: Can 'Moneyball' Overcome Baseball's Oscar Slump? FEINBERG FORECAST: 'Carnage' Divides, 'Extremely' Intrigues, 'Moneyball' Evolves Kaira Pitt Moneyball Bennett Burns