Adam Sandler treated a delighted the Gotham Awards audience Monday night with a hefty stand-up session, thanking the org for a Performers Tribute after a long career with two guiding principles, “that people in prison need movies too, and TBS needs content to show between all those basketball games.”
He claimed the speech was written by his two teenage daughters, who were upset he hadn’t prepared one.
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The award was presented by Josh and Benny Safdie, co-writers and directors of the actor’s 2019 crime thriller Uncut Gems. The event at Cipriani Wall Street in NYC was the first major ceremony of the fall season and can draw early critical recognition and media attention to indie films and series.
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The Fabelmans star Michelle Williams also was recognized with a Performer Tribute at the 32nd annual awards. See the winners list here.
“Adam Sandler’s spectacular performances across some of the most popular films of the past three decades have inspired the community of filmmakers that we represent here… time and time again,” the Gotham Film & Media Institute’s executive director Jeffrey Sharp, calling the actor “a brilliant talent and “consummate performer who has brought immeasurable joy to audiences throughout the world.”
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Sandler was nominated for Best Actor at The Gotham Awards for Uncut Gems (he won the 2020 Independent Spirit Award for best male lead) and for Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories in 2017.
The actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and musician, who most recently appeared in Netflix’s Hustle as a down on his luck basketball scout, came to national attention during a five-year run on SNL. Small parts in comedies like Shakes The Clown (1991), Coneheads (1993) and Mixed Nuts (1994) led to a breakout with Billy Madison (1995), which he co-wrote. A string of hit comedies — Happy Gilmore (1996), The Waterboy (1998), The Wedding Singer (1998), Big Daddy (1999) — cemented Sandler as a comedic powerhouse and major box office draw.
He formed Happy Madison Productions in 1999, producing and taking on wider-ranging roles including Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love (2002), James L. Brooks’ Spanglish (2004) and Funny People, by Judd Apatow in 2009, along with comedies from 50 First Dates (2004), The Longest Yard (2005), Click (2006), I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007), and You Don’t Mess With The Zohan (2008). He anchored Sony’s Hotel Translyvania franchise, and produced and starred in Grown Ups and Grown Ups 2.
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