TCM to Honor Michelle Pfeiffer with Hand and Footprint Ceremony and Screening of ‘The Fabulous Baker Boys’ at 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has revealed that three-time Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Pfeiffer will be celebrated with a hand and footprint ceremony at the renowned TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Friday, April 25 as part of the 16th annual TCM Classic Film Festival. During the festival, Pfeiffer’s acclaimed performance in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) — for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Golden Globe for Best Actress — will be showcased.

“There’s an undeniable quality to any part played by Michelle Pfeiffer,” said Ben Mankiewicz, TCM Primetime Anchor and Official Host of the TCM Classic Film Festival. “She blends — seemingly effortlessly (though it surely isn’t effortless) — elegance with depth, capturing the complexity in every character she plays. For example, take the two times she’s portrayed the wife or girlfriend of a criminal kingpin, opposite Al Pacino in Brian De Palma’s violent drama Scarface, then leading the cast of Jonathan Demme’s romantic comedy Married to the Mob. In Scarface, she could’ve been nothing but an objectified prize to the two men in her life. Instead, she brought this steely toughness to the role, humanizing Elvira in unexpected ways. In Married to the Mob, she took a similar character type, turned it entirely upside down and served as the film’s emotional anchor. After those two performances, there was little doubt a major talent was on the scene in Hollywood. And she’s made good on that promise over the last three-plus decades in film after film, including The Fabulous Baker Boys, Dangerous Liaisons, Russia House, Batman Returns, Hairspray, her critically acclaimed turn as Betty Ford in The First Lady, and as Bernie Madoff’s compellingly detached wife Ruth in the HBO movie Wizard of Lies. No matter the character, Michelle Pfeiffer’s performances are consistently nuanced and convincingly authentic.”

This marks the 12th hand and footprint ceremony as part of the TCM Classic Film Festival. In 2011, Peter O’Toole was the honoree, followed by Kim Novak in 2012, Jane Fonda in 2013, Jerry Lewis in 2014, Christopher Plummer in 2015, Francis Ford Coppola in 2016, Carl and Rob Reiner in 2017, Cicely Tyson in 2018, Billy Crystal in 2019, Lily Tomlin in 2022 and Jodie Foster in 2024.

Also at this year’s fest, George Stevens Jr. will receive the Robert Osborne Award, which recognizes an individual who has helped keep the cultural heritage of classic film alive for future generations, and director Michael Schultz will be feted for his “lasting impact on film.”