Variety Virtuoso Award: Ethan Hawke

It's a BIG year for the legendary actor Ethan Hawke! With _three _features hitting cinemas this year along the premiere of his new FX series The Lowdown, Hawke is soaring to new heights in his career. Join Miami Film Festival and Variety for an exclusive in-depth conversation with the actor as he discusses his expansive body of work and we honor him with Variety's Virtuoso Award. Moderated by Variety's Co-Editor in Chief Ramin Setoodeh, this chat will be an unforgettable experience for Miami audiences. And who knows... maybe you'll be able to catch one or two of his new films at GEMS. Who are we to say?

First tapping into the pop culture zeitgeist with Ben Stiller's 1994 comedy Reality Bites and since his debut in the iconic 1989 feature Dead Poets Society opposite Robin Williams, Hawke has starred in over sixty films, including Richard Linklater's Before trilogy (Before Sunrise, and its two sequels Before Sunset and Before Midnight), Boyhood, Training Day, Gattaca, The Magnificent Seven, Great Expectations, Hamlet, Sinister, First Reformed, and Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" is a phrase a young Ethan Hawke took to heart while filming Dead Poets Society, the iconic drama that launched his career as an actor. Thirty years and countless honors later—including four Academy Award nominations, as both an actor and writer—Hawke has established himself as a multifaceted artist: actor, screenwriter, director, producer, musician and best-selling novelist.