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\nKevin Spacey paid tribute to the late Val Kilmer while accepting a lifetime achievement trophy at the Septimius Awards last week, going so far as to dedicate the honor to his lifelong friend.
\nThe two night award ceremony, held at Amsterdam\u2019s Tuschinski Theater on Sept. 3-4, saw honors handed out in a variety of entertainment categories with appearances from Hollywood stars including Jonathan Majors and Meagan Good (who both won awards), Septimius ambassador Stedman Graham (longtime partner of Oprah Winfrey) and a host of international talent from both sides of the camera.
\nSpacey wasn\u2019t alone in receiving a lifetime achievement honor as Irv Gotti, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Oscar-winning make-up artist Jenny Shircore and special effects supervisor Neil Corbould also won career-spanning trophies.
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\nWhile accepting at the black-tie gala, Spacey first thanked longtime manager and \u201cbest friend in this world,\u201d Evan Lowenstein and his wife Lucie, before turning his attention to Kilmer. The two met at age 12 while in Sunday School together before going on to study at the same Southern California high school and at the prestigious Juilliard School of Drama in New York.
\nSpacey said that when he knew that he would be accepting the honor on the date of Sept. 4, it made him recall how he started his professional acting career exactly 44 years ago that very night alongside Kilmer, \u201cplaying two very small parts as soldiers\u201d in a production of Henry IV, Part 1 at Central Park\u2019s Delacorte Theater in New York.
\n\u201cI am thinking of Val tonight,\u201d Spacey said. \u201cI am missing Val for all that he taught me, for the times that we shared together, but mostly for what he learned as a man, as a father and as a friend. I recall with enormous love in my heart that in 2017, when a number of people were walking away from me, Val was busy coming toward me, sending love and his support, and I will never forget him for that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Kevin Spacey paid tribute to the late Val Kilmer while accepting a lifetime achievement trophy at the Septimius Awards last week, going so far as to dedicate the honor to his lifelong friend. The two night award ceremony, held at Amsterdam\u2019s Tuschinski Theater on Sept. 3-4, saw honors handed out in a variety of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-national"],"yoast_head":"\n