Overview
- Sandler accepted the Chairman’s Award at the Palm Springs International Film Awards following acclaim for his dramatic turn in Jay Kelly.
- He delivered a comedic alternate-history monologue imagining life as an electrical worker, joking about having “10 less bathrooms” and fewer statues of himself.
- He said he would still be married to Jackie regardless of career outcome, calling their relationship “destiny,” and thanked her as his “forever girl.”
- Sandler praised Noah Baumbach and his castmates, while festival chairman Nachhattar Singh Chandi lauded his work as a “career-best” performance.
- He continued the awards run by appearing with Jackie on the Critics Choice red carpet, as Jay Kelly streams on Netflix and draws Critics Choice and Golden Globe nominations.