{"id":11748,"date":"2011-04-11T09:33:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T16:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=11748"},"modified":"2011-04-11T09:33:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T16:33:50","slug":"saldana-to-receive-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/04\/saldana-to-receive-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Saldana To Receive Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Star Trek XI<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>Zo\u00eb Saldana <\/strong>will be presented with a Midnight Award at the Midnight Awards segment of the 54th San Francisco International Film Festival, due to take place later this month.<\/p>\n<p>The awards ceremony, which &#8220;takes the format of a late night talk show,&#8221; will be hosted by <em>New York Times<\/em> best-selling author <strong>Beth Lisick<\/strong>. Saldana will be interviewed by Lisick during the show.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/120809Saldana1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11750\" title=\"120809Saldana\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/120809Saldana1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Created in 2007, the Midnight Awards are given to a young actor and actress who have &#8220;made outstanding contributions to independent and Hollywood cinema&#8221; and bring intelligence, talent and depth of characters to their roles.&#8221; The name of the male actor receiving a Midnight Award along with Saldana has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n<p>Saldana is best-known to sci-fi and fantasy fans for her role in <em>Star Trek XI<\/em> and <em>Avatar<\/em>. Last year, she appeared in <em>Death at a Funeral <\/em>and<em> The Losers<\/em>. Saldana will be seen next in <em>Colombiana<\/em>, due out in September.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Midnight Award winners were <strong>Evan Rachel Wood<\/strong> and <strong>Elijah Wood<\/strong> (2009), <strong>Rose McGowan<\/strong> and <strong>Jason Lee<\/strong> (2008) and <strong>Rosario Dawson<\/strong> and <strong>Sam Rockwell<\/strong> (2007).<\/p>\n<p>The Midnight Awards will be held at the W San Francisco at 10:30 PM, April 23, as part of the larger 54th San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs from April 21-May 5. Tickets can be purchased <a href=\"http:\/\/prod3.agileticketing.net\/WebSales\/pages\/WelcomePage.aspx?epguid=e94ce262-664f-4209-8054-630fb80082ca&amp;\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek XI&#8216;s Zo\u00eb Saldana will be presented with a Midnight Award at the Midnight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2401],"tags":[3587,2410],"class_list":["post-11748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-midnight-award","tag-saldana"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11752,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11748\/revisions\/11752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}