EVENT
2025 Spring Moving Image Awards
Monday, Jun 9, 2025 at 6:00 pm
Museum of the Moving Image invites you to join us for
2025 SPRING MOVING IMAGE AWARDS
Monday, June 9, 2025
Honoring
Tom Rothman, Chairman & CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group
John Turturro, Actor, Writer, Director
6:00 p.m.
Cocktail Reception
7:00 p.m.
Celebration of honorees by friends and collaborators with a special program in the grand Redstone Theater
Followed by a seated dinner
Please see support options below, or support the Museum by making a donation here.
Tables seating 10 guests each are currently available at the following levels:
$50,000 – Presenting Sponsor (1 premier table w/10 seats + sponsorship recognition)
$25,000 – Premier Sponsor (1 table w/10 seats)
$12,500 – Lead Sponsor (1/2 table with 5 seats)
$10,000 – Sponsor (4 seats)
Individual tickets are now available for $2500.
All funds raised at the Moving Image Awards help support MoMI’s exhibitions, screenings, and education and community engagement programs, which serve youth, adults, and their families across all of New York and beyond.
Tom Rothman is the longest-serving motion picture studio head of the modern era. During his exceptionally long career, Rothman has worked on more than 500 films. As Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group for over a decade, he has led the studio to multiple years of record profitability. Some of the many enduring films made during his tenure include Best Picture Oscar nominees Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Little Women, Call Me by Your Name,and I’m Still Here; Best Animated Feature Oscar-winner Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, commercial hits such as Jumanji, Bad Boys, and Uncharted, and the highest-grossing film in Columbia history, Spider-Man: No Way Home. Dedicated to the theatrical experience, he has brought multiple topflight filmmakers to the studio, including Quentin Tarantino, Greta Gerwig, Danny Boyle, Sam Mendes, Darren Aronofsky, Edgar Wright, and Ang Lee.
Previously, Rothman served as Chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment, overseeing acclaimed films such as Life of Pi, Lincoln, Black Swan, Slumdog Millionaire, Castaway, Master and Commander, Moulin Rouge, the X-Men series, and two of the highest-grossing films in history, Titanic and Avatar. His 18-year tenure at Fox produced over 150 Academy Award® nominations and over $50 billion at the global box office. Rothman also founded Fox Searchlight, which won three Best Picture Oscars.
In a career spanning more than 35 years, John Turturro has worked with a number of acclaimed filmmakers, appearing in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever, Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money, Robert Redford’s Quiz Show, Francesco Rosi’s La Tregua, Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd, Tom DiCillo’s Box of Moonlight, and Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre. He has been a frequent collaborator with Joel and Ethan Coen, starring in several of their films, including Barton Fink, for which Turturro won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the David di Donatello Award. Turturro recently starred in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, and he is starring in Sean Ellis’s The Cut and Noah Segan’s The Only Living Pickpocket in New York.
On television, Turturro won an Emmy Award for his guest appearance on Monk, and was nominated for an Emmy Award, Golden Globe, and SAG Award for his role as criminal attorney John Stone in HBO’s The Night Of. He was also nominated for a SAG Award for his portrayal of Howard Cosell in Monday Night Mayhem, and nominated again for The Bronx Is Burning, in which he played notorious Yankees skipper Billy Martin. He starred as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf in the six-part HBO series The Plot Against America, based on the acclaimed novel by Philip Roth. Recently, he starred in the Amazon Prime Video series Mr. & Mrs. Smith, as Eric Shane, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. Turturro is currently starring as Irving in the second season of the Apple TV+ series Severance, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award during the first season.