i mean like shes never up for any awards....
this fall she got 2 awards at film festival for best acting CAREER
at the high falls film festival and the hamptons film festival
so she did get alittle recognition
From high falls
X-Men' actress receives top film festival award
Famke Janssen's 'spunk'' applauded
Jack Garner
Staff film critic
(November 11, 2006) — The High Falls Film Festival bucked the trend of honoring veteran actors and filmmakers in the latter stages of their careers Friday night by conferring its most prestigious award on a younger actress in mid-career.
Famke Janssen, the lanky, black-haired actor best known as a star of the X-Men series of action fantasies, was given the Susan B. Anthony "Failure Is Impossible" Award as an example of an actor unafraid to take risks in her choices of roles, frequently working in low-budget independent films between the occasional Hollywood blockbuster.
As if to prove the point, Janssen accompanied last night's gala screening of The Treatment, an independent romantic comedy co-starring Janssen, Chris Eigeman and Ian Holm. "And it was made for less than $1 million," Janssen told the 400 people assembled to see it at the Eastman House Dryden Theatre.
The Dutch-born actor's black slacks and top accented her lithe, 5-feet-11 model's figure as she accepted the award from Family Court Judge Marilyn O'Connor, a longtime festival supporter (and mother of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman). O'Connor was doing double duty because she also planned to join her family at Friday night's later movie, A Coat of Snow, written and directed by another son, Gordy Hoffman.
O'Connor told Janssen that Susan B. Anthony would enjoy Janssen's "spunk, brightness and choices in life."
In her acceptance, 41-year-old Janssen said that over her 15 years and 20 films in the business she has sought to "fight typecasting" by turning "to the wonderful world of independent films." Skirting Hollywood by the independent route, she said, will continue to be important for women "because we need more women behind the cameras" of big studio projects.
Clips shown with her award included scenes from the big-budget 007 film, GoldenEye, as well as an X-Men film, but also smaller movies, like Love & Sex and Woody Allen's Celebrity.
Janssen's award was one of three Susan B. Anthony honors at the sixth annual festival. Director Agnieszka Holland was honored on Wednesday, while producer Lauren Shuler Donner will be honored tonight.
Indications after three nights of screening are that the festival continues to be a success. Thus far, two screenings (Wednesday's Copying Beethoven and Thursday's Ten Canoes) were sellouts, as was a staged screenplay reading, hosted Thursday by Gordy Hoffman.
The festival today and Sunday expands to daytime events, in addition to the evening screenings. Among programs today are shorts for youngsters, shorts for adults, workshops on documentary filmmaking and cinematography, and a panel on the state of filmmaking today.
Sunday's schedule includes a program with animator Emily Hubley and an on-stage Q&A with producer Shuler Donner and her veteran director husband, Richard Donner (who made the Christopher Reeve Superman and the Lethal Weapon films).
Though the festival formally ends Sunday night, filmgoers will have another chance to catch two favorites on Monday, determined by the votes of filmgoers. The most popular narrative film will be shown at the Little at 7 p.m. Monday. The top documentary will follow at 9:15 p.m.
But ok.
