{"id":2083322,"date":"2025-10-11T05:12:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2083322"},"modified":"2025-10-11T05:12:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:12:27","slug":"george-eastman-museum-to-honor-rita-moreno-with-prestigious-film-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/george-eastman-museum-to-honor-rita-moreno-with-prestigious-film-award\/","title":{"rendered":"George Eastman Museum to honor Rita Moreno with prestigious film award"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hollywood royalty is arriving in Upstate New York this month as Oscar winner Rita Moreno visits the George Eastman Museum in Rochester<\/a> for a two-night celebration of her legendary career.<\/p>\n

The 93-year-old actress, dancer and singer \u2014 one of the few performers to achieve EGOT status, winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony \u2014 will appear at the museum\u2019s Dryden Theatre on Oct. 28 for a screening of the 1961 musical classic \u201cWest Side Story.\u201d Before the film, Moreno will join Jared Case, the museum\u2019s curator of film exhibitions, for an on-stage conversation.<\/p>\n

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Still from the film “West Side Story” (1961), directed by Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise. Shown center from left: Rita Moreno (as Anita), Yvonne Wilder (billed as Yvonne Othon), Suzie Kay. Provided photo | United Artists\/PhotofestUnited Artists\/Photofest<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Tickets to the event are $50 and can now be purchased online<\/a> via the George Eastman Museum website. <\/p>\n

The following evening, Oct. 29, Moreno will return to the Dryden Theatre to receive the George Eastman Award, which honors artists for their distinguished contributions to the art of cinema. The award, first presented in 1955, is one of the oldest film honors in the United States and has recognized such luminaries as Greta Garbo, Meryl Streep and Martin Scorsese.<\/p>\n

The ceremony will include remarks by Peter Bagrov, the museum\u2019s senior curator of the Moving Image Department, a reel of highlights from Moreno\u2019s storied career, and another on-stage conversation with the actress. A gala will follow the presentation.<\/p>\n

Moreno made history as the first Latina woman to win an Academy Award for her portrayal of Anita in \u201cWest Side Story.\u201d Her career has spanned more than seven decades, from early Broadway roles to recent projects like Steven Spielberg\u2019s 2021 \u201cWest Side Story,\u201d remake and the Netflix series \u201cOne Day At a Time.\u201d She currently lives in Berkeley, California.<\/p>\n

The George Eastman Museum is housed on the estate of George Eastman, the founder of Eastman Kodak and a pioneer of modern photography and motion pictures. It is among the most prestigious film archives in the world and has long served as a hub for cinema history in Upstate New York, preserving and celebrating the legacy of both film and photography.<\/p>\n

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Hollywood royalty is arriving in Upstate New York this month as Oscar winner Rita Moreno visits the George Eastman Museum in Rochester for a two-night celebration of her legendary career. The 93-year-old actress, dancer and singer \u2014 one of the few performers to achieve EGOT status, winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony \u2014 will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[391914,346106],"class_list":["post-2083322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-1960s","tag-musical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083323,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083322\/revisions\/2083323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}