Nicole Kidman Bursts Into Tears Dedicating PSIFF Award to Late Mom

Oh my god, Jamie, Jamie, Jamie. There's a place to put it. It's all been thought out. Thank you. Thank you for driving all this way on your holiday and coming to give me this award tonight, but thank you for the words and for the love. We are playing sisters right now and this woman is the true meaning of a sister. She has been loyal and devoted and kind and caring and generous to me and you should all know that. Yeah. And thank you to all of you here at the Palm Springs Film Festival because I love you. As she said, love is the center of my life. I'm incredibly grateful to be standing here, but it's true. I had good love growing up and I'm in that place now. I went home over Christmas and I've lost both my parents, so I'm in that place of going, huh, okay, this is different now. But they've given me the resilience, they've given me the love, and they've given me the strength to keep moving forward. And I could talk about Baby Girl and I could talk about Helena Rain, who I want to shout out to because she's an extraordinary filmmaker and she put her heart and soul into Baby Girl. And I was so lucky at this age to be given a role of that nature, of that complexity, and to be asked to do those things that you normally wouldn't ask a woman in their fifties to do because you're like, oh, well, she's too old. But she didn't. She said, no, this is a gift to you. But I want to now, so I say thank you, Helena, for that. But I just am still, I'm still grieving my mom. And so I want to dedicate, because I didn't get to do it at the Venice Film Festival. I didn't get to do that because that was, I arrived in Venice and she was gone and I got the call. And so I said to Helena, can you go on stage for me and accept the award for me? And she did. But now I'm on stage and I'm back here. Thank you. Thank you for giving me the chance to say this is for my mom. My whole career has been for my mom and my dad and they're not here now, but I still want to keep working and giving to the world because I love what I do and I love you all. And I'm so grateful for the privilege to be a part of this film community. And I'm sorry I'm crying. I didn't want to do that, but I feel my mama right now. So this is for you, mama.