CinemaCon announced that Mark Hamill will receive this year\u2019s Cinema Icon Award. Hamill will be presented with the honor at the Big Screen Achievement Awards ceremony at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, hosted by official presenting sponsor, The Coca-Cola Company. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hamill will have three films in theaters in 2025. He will soon appear on screen in Lionsgate\u2019s The Long Walk<\/em>, an adaptation of the first-written novel by storyteller Stephen King. Directed by Francis Lawrence, the director of\u202fThe Hunger Games<\/em>\u202ffranchise. He is also garnering buzz for his role opposite Tom Hiddleston in\u202fNeon\u2019s\u202fThe Life of Chuck<\/em>\u202fwhich won the 2024 TIFF Audience Award and will also be seen in Paramount\u2019s\u202fThe SpongeBob Movie:\u202fSearch for\u202fSquarepants<\/em>\u202fas The Flying Dutchman.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars<\/em> movies and films such as Kingsman: The Secret Service<\/em>, Sony\u2019s The Machine<\/em> and Brigsby Bear<\/em>. Hamill\u2019s extensive voice acting work includes his role as the Thorn, the grizzly bear in DreamWorks Animation\u2019s recently Oscar-nominated animated feature, The Wild Robot<\/em>; Granduncle in the Oscar-winning The Boy and the Heron<\/em>; and a long-standing voice role as the Joker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Mark Hamill\u2019s career is proof that great characters don\u2019t just live on the screen\u2014they live within us, galvanizing generations of audiences worldwide,\u201d noted Mitch Neuhauser, the managing director of CinemaCon.\u202f\u201cThis Cinema Icon Award honors not just an actor, but a legacy of incredible work that extends beyond the screen and continues to inspire us all.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CinemaCon announced that Mark Hamill will receive this year\u2019s Cinema Icon Award. Hamill will be presented with the honor at the Big Screen Achievement Awards ceremony at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, hosted by official presenting sponsor, The Coca-Cola Company. Hamill will have three films in theaters in 2025. He will soon appear on screen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":38031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-04-01T17:18:05Z","apple_news_api_id":"ed1b48cc-794f-412b-9072-c06bf3c7e9dd","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-04-01T17:18:24Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A7RtIzHlPQSuQcsBr88fp3Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/dfac7ee9-acf9-449e-b214-8115882b64d6"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[5645,5743,5742],"class_list":["post-38023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition-news","tag-cinemacon-2025","tag-the-life-of-chuck","tag-the-long-walk"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boxofficepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}