Jessica Chastain will be honored at the upcoming 23rd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival.

The Tree of Life actress will receive the ‘Spotlight Award’ on January 7. The Palm Springs Festival will be held from January 5 to January 16.

Chastain, who recently said that she wants to continue to challenge herself, has starred in seven movies this year including The Help and The Debt.

She is one of 14 honourees at the film festival.

The rest of the recipients are composer Howard Shore along with actors George Clooney, Glenn Close, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Octavia Spencer, Michelle Williams, Charlize Theron and Patton Oswalt, as well as screenwriter Diablo Cody and directors Stephen Daldry, Jason Reitman and Michel Hazanavicius.

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, will open the Palm Springs Festival.

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While I was looking for new Jessica goodies I have found this pretty shoot taken by EW in the latest Sundance festival. I’ve totally missed it when it was released. Plus added the only pic released (until now) for the article posted below. Enjoy!

Reporting from New York — — Jessica Chastain is clearly up for just about anything. On this warm November night she could be sitting cozily inside a buzzing hotel restaurant surrounded by chandeliers, candles and ivy trellises. Instead, she’s gamely agreed to be interviewed in the hotel’s garden, and is now swaying gently in a wooden swing, articulating with a wide-open, shining face and fluttering hands about what it was like, once upon a time, to be “the most unlucky actress in Hollywood.” (more…)

Chastain can now add another promising potential project to her slate as she’s reportedly set to join “Incendies” director Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of the Russell Banks novel “The Darling.” Back in October, Banks spoke to Canadian news rag The Calgary Herald, and confirmed to them that Chastain would be working with Quebec filmmaker Villeneuve in the lead role of Hannah Musgrave. In Banks’ book, which is set in Liberia and the United States over a period of 16 years from 1975 to 1991, Musgrave is a political extremist who operates as a member of the Weather Underground. She’s forced to flee America for West Africa, where along with her Liberian husband she befriends a warlord who eventually pts her family and life in peril.

Apparently the project was set to be a Martin Scorsese film with Cate Blanchett following their work on “The Aviator” in 2004, but obviously that didn’t work out, even though this certainly sounds like something potentially within Scorsese’s wheelhouse. But 2010’s “Incendies,” which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2011 Oscars, showcased a director who has a penchant for familial drama amidst the tension of the time period, so perhaps it isn’t a long shot for Villeneuve either. As for Chastain, at this point in time she can do no wrong in this writer’s mind, and it’s yet another intriguing part for the actress.

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The Golden Globe nominations have just been announced, and Jessica has been shortlisted for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for her work in The Help. The Golden Globes will take place on January 15.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Bérénice Bejo for The Artist (2011)
Jessica Chastain for The Help (2011)
Janet McTeer for Albert Nobbs (2011)
Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011)
Shailene Woodley for The Descendants (2011)

She also got a nomination yesterday at the SAG awards, also for her role at “The Help”. It surely was a great year for Jessica, and we’re really help (and proud) of her. Congratulations, Jessica!

Jessica it’s on Interview Magazine, with a breathtaking new photoshoot plus a great interview done by the amazing Michael Shannon.

If you’ve been to the movies in the last six months, chances are you’ve seen Jessica Chastain. And though the actress’s feast of projects-a staggering five released since last May-simply seem to hint at a calculated, industry-driven blitz to create Hollywood’s next Oscar-buzzy girl to watch, her story is actually the result of a string of cruel, borderline farcical twists of fate. Since 2006, Chastain has made 11 films (plus a TV movie for the BBC), but due to various delays in production and distribution, only two of them saw the light of day before 2011. The most high-profile snag came with Terrence Malick’s Palme d’Or-winning 1950s epic The Tree of Life, in which she starred opposite Brad Pitt. Chastain shot the film more than three years ago, but due to a change in distributors (its original studio, Apparition Films, dissolved), it was only released this past spring by Fox Searchlight. Nevertheless, the Northern California native has even referred to the “Chastain curse,” joking how she’d promised other directors and her family upcoming roles with marquee names only to see her work linger in cinematic purgatory. “It’s insane,” she told Interview in September 2010. “I did some of these movies four years ago. My poor mother! I tell her I’m doing a movie with Al Pacino and another with Brad Pitt. She tells all her friends, and years go by . . . ” (more…)

Jessica Chastain has had a remarkably busy 2011.

She has had five breakout performances, playing a maternal goddess, a Southern belle, an Israeli Mossad agent, a wife to a crazy Michael Shannon in “Take Shelter” and a distraught spouse in “Coriolanus.”

Astonishingly, the actress received critical praise from all of her films. But many believe that the sheer number of Chastain’s performances could actually deter her from receiving the Oscar nomination that many believe she is due. (more…)

I’ve posted last moth some pictures of that photoshoot Jessica did to InStyle magazine, and this week a few more stunning new pictures were released. You’ll be able to find it now in our gallery:

The Marrakech film festival has ended, and Jessica attended a few premmieres, as she was part of the jury. I added more than 130 pictures, with several being HQ sized, of all events Jess attended. Check it:

Jessica Chastain attended the opening ceremony for the 2011 Marrakech International Film Festival on Friday (December 2) in Marrakech, Morocco. She was also at the Tribute To Prince Moulay Rachid. And while I was looking for pictures of this events, I have found some pictures of an event she attended last November 22. Check it: