Marion Cotillard received an honorary tribute during the Gotham Awards at Cipriani Wall Street in New York on Monday evening. Her co-star from Big Fish, Public Enemies and the upcoming Blood Ties smilingly and with a lot of praise introduced the tribute. In her speech Marion Cotillard heralded challenges and new experiences that smaller films provide. She also said that filmmakers need champions and thanked IFP for being those champions. She thanked director Jacques Audiard and Matthias Schoeaerts and dedicated the award to 2 people who have always trusted in her at every stage of her career: her 2 agents Laurent Grégoire and Hylda Queally – all of which were also present.

PLEASE if you can find a video of this lovely speech, can you send it in? I unfortunately didn’t manage to record it from the livestream.

Many thanks to Luciana for her great help with many of the pictures from the event. I also added snippets from news reports as a video.

After the awards Marion Cotillard and others from the Gotham Awards headed over to N. 8 for the ‘Killing Them Softly‘ Premiere After Party. She was pictured with her agent Hylda Queally.

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• More from Gotham Awards & Charlie Rose Show, posted on November 29, 2012
• ‘Oscar Wilde: Honoring The Irish In Film’ Awards, posted on February 20, 2009
• Career Tribute at Gotham Independent Film Awards, posted on October 10, 2012
• Massive 2012 Public Appearances Update, posted on November 10, 2012
• Gotham Awards & European Film Awards, posted on December 3, 2007