Texas Film Hall of Fame

For the last few years, SxSW Film has been preceded by a fancy night honoring some of Texas' finest actors. Yesterday evening, Austin was a buzz with celebrities (some of them even noteworthy).

At Austin Studios, Stage 5, celebrity auctioneers includeded: Connie Britton, Kyle Chandler, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson & Brad Leland. Tom Mix Honorary Texan Award was given to quinticential bad boy, Billy Bob Thornton and presented by Dennis Quaid.

Larry Hagman and Powers Booth were both inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame and the proceeds for the night went to benefit the Austin Film Society. Outside of an induction for myself, my only wish was that I could have been there to see the shindig!

So if you want real journalism on the subject, try the Dallas Morning News. They have a pretty good article written by JOE O'CONNELL :

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/031309dntexhagman.3ecde25.html

All the name dropping aside, I would like to see more movies actually coming to Texas. It's fine to honor actors who peaked in the 80's, but damn Texas! Can't we all get behind TXMPA with a real incentive for major films?

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on the web:

http://www.txmpa.org/
http://www.sxsw.com/film
http://www.austinfilm.org/film/texas_film_hall_of_fame_awards_2009