Jake Gyllenhaal to be honoured with Hollywood Supporting Actor Award at Hollywood Film Awards

One of the most highly venerable promising stars of Hollywood, Jake Gyllenhaal, will be honoured with the Hollywood Supporting Actor Award at the 17th annual Hollywood Film Awards. The awards ceremony will take place on October 21 at the Beverly Hilton.

Gyllenhaal will join the league of previous winners of the Hollywood Supporting Actor Award like Geoffrey Rush (2003), Matthew Broderick (2005), Ben Affleck (2007), John Travolta (2008), Christoph Waltz (2009), Sam Rockwell (2010), Christopher Plummer (2011) and Robert De Niro (2012). The 32-year-old actor Gyllenhaal has proved his versatility as an actor so far after his film debut at the age of 10 with the 1991-film City Slickers. His most popular performances include October Sky (1999), Donnie Darko (2001), Lovely & Amazing (2001), Moonlight Mile (2002), The Good Girl (2002), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Jarhead (2005), Proof (2005), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Zodiac (2007), Rendition (2007), Brothers (2009), Love & Other Drugs (2010), Source Code (2011) and End of Watch (2012).

This year has been one of the most successful ones for Gyllenhaal and his latest portrayal of a detective in Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners has helped him receive wide acclaim worldwide. The Hollywood Film Awards’ honourees’ names are decided by founder and executive director Carlos de Abreu and an advisory committee. As told by Abreu to an internationally popular tabloid, “We are thrilled to present the Hollywood Supporting Actor Award to Jake Gyllenhaal for his unforgettable performance in Prisoners. His is a truly compelling, subtly layered portrayal of a man tasked with the impossible and driven by the demons of his own past. Jake has given a myriad of outstanding performances throughout his career. But his work in this film achieves a new level of complexity, as reflected in the rave reviews the film has received."