Robert Rodriguez
Rodriguez directed El Mariachi, a 1992 film which won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
Other Rodriguez films include: Desperado (1995), the Spy Kids trilogy and Once Upon A Time in Mexico (2003).
Most recently, he completed filming on Sin City and The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl in Austin.
The Austin Film Society welcomed back the Honorable Ann Richards, former governor of Texas, for her fourth year as emcee of the March awards ceremony.
Lauren Bacall
Bacall accepted the Frontier Award on behalf of the film Written on the Wind, a melodrama set in Texas and directed by Douglas Sirk.
Bacall starred in this 1956 film with Rock Hudson, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone, who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Bacall began her career in 1944 with To Have & Have Not. She has since starred in nearly fifty films.
Some of her most notable films include: The Big Sleep (1946), How To Marry A Millionaire (1953), Designing Woman (1957), Murder On The Orient Express (1974), The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) and Dogville (2003).
Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden is the first graduate from the University of Texas at Austin to win an Academy Award. Her Oscar-winning supporting actress performance came in the 2000 film called Pollock.
She has also appeared in Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil (1997), Beloved (1998), Collateral (2004) and numerous television shows.
Nine-time Academy Award-nominated actress Ellen Burstyn induct Harden into the Hall of Fame. Burstyn won the Best Actress Academy Award for her work in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974). She and Harden co-starred in The Spitfire Grill, a 1996 drama that was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize and won the Audience Award at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival.
Irma P. Hall
The directing, writing and producing team of Joel and Ethan Coen inducted Irma P. Hall into the Hall of Fame.
The 70-year-old actress starred in the Coenbrothers’ The Ladykillers in 2004, for which she received the Jury Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
Other Coen brothers’ films include Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and Intolerable Cruelty (2003).
Kimberly Buffington and her husband, Dennis Quaid
Dennis Quaid and Kimberly Buffington arrived in Austin to receive accolades for his work in front on the big screen.
Today, Quaid is working as much behind the camera as he is in front of it.
Currently, Quaid is writing, directing and starring in the upcoming Shame On You.
Two of the films you can seen him in right now are Flight of The Phoenix and In Good Company.
For his part in Far From Heaven (2002), Quaid won the Independent Spirit Award, New York Film Circle Award and Chicago Film Critic Association Award for Best Supporting Actor.
One of Quaid's most popular movies among the younger set is The Parent Trap (1998) co-starring Lindsay Lohan and Natasha Richardson.
Quaid's tie to Texas is that he was born in Houston.
About The Texas Film Hall of Fame
The Texas Film Hall of Fame recognizes actors, directors, screenwriters, filmmakers and films from, influenced by or inspired by the Lone Star State.
Past honorees include: Robert Benton, William Broyles, Jr., Cyd Charisse, Farrah Fawcett, Horton Foote, Woody Harrelson, Ethan Hawke, Tobe Hooper, Judith Ivey, Terence Malick, Willie Nelson, Edwin “Bud” Shrake, Liz Smith, Sissy Spacek, Forest Whitaker and Bill Wittliff.
Proceeds from the annual Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards benefit the educational and artistic programs of Austin Film Society.
2005 marks the Austin Film Society's twenty-fifth year.
Today, it is ranked among the top film centers in the country and recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts and Directors Guild of America.
The Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards were first held in 2001.
For more information on the Austin Film Society, visit:
www.austinfilm.org
Congratulations Dennis, Lauren, Irma and Robert.
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The Texas Film Hall of Fame is presented annually by the Austin Film Society. Those honored are recognized filmmakers who are from or influenced by Texas. 
