Julianne Moore is set to be honored with the Golden Icon Award at the 22nd Zurich Film Festival.

The U.S. actress will accept the accolade alongside Jesse Eisenberg, who directs her in his latest feature The Debut, a musical-comedy co-starring Paul Giamatti.

Over a career now spanning more than three decades, Moore has worked with some of the most distinguished directors in contemporary cinema including Robert Altman (Short Cuts), Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia), brothers Joel and Ethan Coen (The Big Lebowski) and Todd Haynes (Safe, Far From Heaven, May December).

At this year’s Zurich Film Fest, Moore will be given the lifetime achievement award in recognition for her career and recent starring role in The Debut, which is screening at the festival. The movie follows Mona Friedman (Moore), who is cast in a bit part at a small community theater and transforms from a shy, unassuming housewife into a zealous method actor willing to do anything to protect the artistic integrity of her marginal role — even if it means waging war against the show’s domineering director (Giamatti).

“Julianne Moore is one of the outstanding character actresses of American cinema,” said Christian Jungen, CEO of the Zurich Film Festival. “She possesses remarkable versatility and, time and again, manages to captivate us with her intense portrayals of the characters she plays. No matter which film we see her in, we find ourselves rooting for her characters.”

“In the wonderful film The Debut, she delivers a brilliant performance as a woman who realizes it’s not too late to fulfill her deeply personal dream: becoming an actress,” he continued. “It is Julianne Moore’s love letter to her own profession — and thus the perfect film with which to thank her, with our Golden Icon Award, for so many wonderful cinematic experiences.”

Among Moore’s best-known performances are Still Alice, for which she won an Oscar, as well as The Hours and The Kids Are All Right. Recent credits include Apple TV’s Echo Valley, Pedro Almodovar’s The Room Next Door and Netflix limited series Sirens. Next year, she will return to the stage to star in the title role of the Off-Broadway play Faydra. Beyond her acting, Moore is a New York Times bestselling children’s author of the Freckleface Strawberry series and the founding chair of Everytown for Gun Safety’s Creative Council, where she advocates for ending gun violence in America.

Past recipients of Zurich’s Golden Icon Award include Kate Winslet, Sylvester Stallone, and Sharon Stone. The 22nd edition runs Sep. 24-Oct. 4.

Victor Miller, the screenwriter behind Friday the 13th, has died. He was 86.

Miller’s son Ian confirmed his father had died on Monday, August 30, but didn’t reveal the cause of death.

“Yesterday my father, Victor Miller, went to his final reward,” read the Instagram post in honor of the screenwriter. “He was almost always the smartest, funniest person in whatever room he was in. He inspired in me, and many others, a love of photography, music, and storytelling.”

The post continued, “He is survived by his wife, two sons, and his grandson. He had a helluva run and will be missed dearly.”

Ian said that a celebration of Miller’s life will be held in November, “on Friday the 13th, of course.”

Miller wrote the screenplay for the 1980 film directed by Sean S. Cunningham that would go on to spawn multiple sequels. Before the horror film, Miller co-wrote the family comedy Manny’s Orphans (1978) with Steve Miner, which Cunningham also directed. In 1978, worked with Cunningham, writing the sports comedy Here Come the Tigers under the pseudonym Arch McCoy.

The screenwriter would work with Cunningham once again after Friday the 13th on the thriller A Stranger Is Watching (1982). Other film credits include Getting In (1994), Jury Duty (1995), Rock, Paper, Scissors (2017), The Once and Future Smash (2022), and the short film Sweet Revenge (2025), among others.

Miller also wrote for television, becoming an Associate Head Writer on the daytime drama One Life to Live from 1982 to 1984. In 1984, he joined All My Children in the same role and later did the same with Guiding Light, Another World, and General Hospital. He won several Daytime Emmys for his work on All My Children in 1985, 1988, and 1998.

Miller’s legacy will live on in Crystal Lake, which is the A24 series based on the Friday the 13th franchise and a prequel to the film Miller wrote. The series will premiere on Peacock on October 15.

While Kenan Thompson has become well-recognized for his comedic roles and Saturday Night Live characters, he nearly gave up on his acting career over one movie.

While chatting with Amy Poehler on her Good Hang podcast recently, the actor revealed that he almost quit acting because of how challenging it was to learn hockey for the family sports comedy-drama D2: The Mighty Ducks, the follow-up to 1992’s The Mighty Ducks.

“I put it on my resume under special skills that I could roller skate, but you know, I never in a million years considered hockey,” Thompson said of getting cast as Russ Tyler in the 1994 hockey sequel. “I wanted to learn, but after that first day of hockey camp, which was on my birthday, my 15th birthday, I wanted to quit it all.”

However, the Emmy winner is grateful that his mother didn’t let his younger self give up that easily.

“I was like, ‘I don’t want to be an actor. I don’t want to if this is what it’s about,’” he recalled. “Thank God my mom didn’t let me quit. Kept going back and back.” After eight weeks total of hockey training for D2 and 1996’s D3: The Mighty Ducks, Thompson said he eventually learned how to ice skate.

Poehler, who starred on SNL with Thompson from 2003 to 2008, also praised the actor for his “incredible” skating skills, saying he’s “one of my friends that skate the best.”

“I pride myself with that, because it’s not like a big known thing amongst the Black community to just ice skate like that,” Good Burger actor said in response. “There’s only certain people that do it. There’s only a few people in the NHL or whatever kind of thing… to get good at it is wild.” 

The Parks and Recreation alum also recalled seeing Thompson’s skills in action on the ice rink outside Rockefeller Center after one of SNL‘s past Christmas shows. She said the actor was “skating forward, skating backwards, skating sideways, doing all the thing [and] doing 45 million tricks.”