Boulder Film Fest: Jane Lynch, Beloved Comedy Vet and ‘Only Murders’ Scene Stealer, Tapped for Entertainer of the Year Award

Jane Lynch, the Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG award-winning actress, will be feted at the upcoming Boulder International Film Festival with the fest’s Entertainer of the Year Award, BIFF announced this morning. The beloved comedy veteran will be celebrated on the evening of Saturday, March 15, at 8:30 p.m., at the historic Boulder Theater, as part of the fest’s 21st annual edition.

Lynch will receive her honor immediately following an hourlong career-retrospective interview moderated by yours truly, which will cover her past screen projects, including Glee, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Best in Show and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, as well as her recent Emmy-nominated portrayal of Sazz Pataki on Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building opposite Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez.

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Past BIFF honorees have included Javier Bardem, Tony Goldwyn, F. Murray Abraham, Shirley MacLaine, Martin Sheen, Laura Linney, Alan Arkin, Bruce Dern, Peter Fonda, Lawrence Kasdan and Robbie Robertson.

“We are just thrilled that Jane Lynch will join us at BIFF this year,” Kathy Beeck, BIFF’s festival director and co-founder, said in a statement. “We are huge fans of her work in Only Murders in the Building, and we love her in so many other movies and TV shows, too. Best in Show. A Mighty Wind. Glee. We are excited to honor her incredible career at BIFF!”

Lynch, 64, has been entertaining audiences on stage and screens big and small for decades since emerging from the Second City comedy troupe and Steppenwolf Theater Company in her native Chicago. Her 2011 memoir, Happy Accidents, was a New York Times bestseller. She recently starred as in Broadway’s first revival of the classic musical Funny Girl. She currently hosts Hollywood Game Night, for which she won an Emmy. And she is once again in Emmy contention, in the category of best supporting actress in a comedy series, for Only Murders in the Building, the SAG Award-winning show on which, for four seasons, she has played the longtime friend and stunt double for Steve Martin’s Charles-Haden Savage.