Reese Witherspoon headed to Chicago to pick up film award
February 15, 2012 8:32PM
Reese Witherspoon will get her award on June 23. | AP
Updated: May 9, 2012 10:15AM
Reese Witherspoon is planning a summer visit to Chicago.
The Oscar-winning actress is this year’s recipient of the Gene Siskel Film Center Renaissance Award and will come pick it up on June 23. As part of the program, she’ll look back on her career in an interview conducted by Alexander Payne, director of her 1999 breakout film “Election.”
Payne is nominated for the best director Academy Award for “The Descendants,” and Witherspoon’s film “This Means War” opens Friday.
The benefit dinner for the Film Center will take place at the Ritz-Carlton Chicago, 160 E. Pearson, and tickets range from $400 to $1,000 (312-846-2072).
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