Amanda Demme and Penelope Cruz
accepting the PRISM Award for late director Ted Demme,
who directed this year’s Theatrical Feature Film PRISM
Award winning movie, Blow. |
Ted Demme directed the 6th Annual PRISM Awards
Theatrical Feature Film winner, Blow,
starring Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz,
Rachel Griffiths, Franka Potente and Paul
Reubens, among other critical favorites. The film
focused on the life of George Jung (Depp), who
famously made millions of dollars smuggling cocaine into
the United States during the 1970s. Demme’s direction
provided a uniquely sympathetic perspective of the
stuggles that accompanied Jung’s addictive lifestyle,
which eventually left him alone and broke. At the same
time, Demme brought to life an extremely realistic
portrayal of drug and alcohol addiction, and graphic
depictions of the emotional and physical toll that these
addictions take on a person. Ted Demme died of heart
failure while playing a celebrity basketball game in early
2002. His widow, Amanda Demme, accepted the PRISM
Award in his name on May 9, 2002.
Late Blow director Ted Demme with Penelope Cruz |
Penelope Cruz’s remarkably diverse acting career,
including films in Spanish, English and French languages,
was deepened by her biting portrayal of George Jung’s
(Johnny Depp) wife Mirtha in Blow. While
Cruz has been in the media spotlight for sometime, she
showed her true self at the 6th Annual PRISM Awards,
to which she accompanied Amanda Demme to accept the
PRISM Award in the Feature Film category for
Blow. Cruz’s support of the Demme family was apparent
at the Awards’ taping, leaving few dry eyes in the
audience of more than 500 guests. We are honored to have
been able to bring Ms. Demme and Ms. Cruz together onstage
at the 6th Annual PRISM Awards.
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