Meryl Streep Honors Viola Davis at the 48th Chaplin Award Gala

Meryl Streep provides a speech at the 48th Chaplin Award Gala honoring Viola Davis. Learn more: Film at Lincoln Center was pleased to honor Viola Davis as the recipient of the 48th Chaplin Award. The award was presented at a gala evening in Davis’s honor on April 24 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York City. The evening encompassed a joyful celebration of the actor and producer’s incredible body of work featuring notable speakers and film clips, culminating in the presentation of the Chaplin Award. The annual Gala, which has honored some of cinema’s most outstanding talents, featured Meryl Streep, who appeared with Davis in Doubt, for which they both received Academy Award® nominations; Gina Prince-Bythewood, who directed Davis in The Woman King; Steve McQueen, who directed Davis in Widows; Jessica Chastain, who starred alongside Davis in the Academy Award® nominated The Help and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby; George C. Wolfe, who directed Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, for which Davis received an Academy Award® nomination, and Nights in Rodanthe; and Jayme Lawson, who co-starred with Davis in The Woman King. provides a speech at the 48th Chaplin Award Gala honoring Viola Davis. Learn more: More info: Subscribe: Like on Facebook: Follow on Twitter: Follow on Instagram: