WOW! Hugh is up for a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for his performance in The Pride. The play, itself, is also nominated for SIX awards at the award ceremony, which are set to be handed out on May 2. Nominations include:

- Outstanding Director: Joe Mantello
- Outstanding Lead Actor: Hugh Dancy
- Outstanding Featured Actor: Adam James
- Outstanding Featured Actress: Andrea Riseborough
- Outstanding Scenic Design: David Zinn
- Outstanding Lighting Design: Paul Gallo

A full list of nominations are located at Playbill.com. We only wish Ben Whishaw could have garnered a nomination, as he was just as exceptional in the play as Hugh.

Before the screening of “Men Who Stare at Goats” on Nov. 3, Hugh Dancy was given the Spotlight Award for his performance in “Adam.”

In “Adam,” the British actor plays a man with Asperger’s Syndrome. He meets his neighbor, Beth (played by Rose Byrne) and they begin a quirky relationship in emotional territory unknown to either of them.

SCAD President Paula Wallace presented the award to “hot Hugh” after a montage of films Dancy has played in: “Black Hawk Down,” “The Jane Austen Book Club,” “King Arthur” and “Confessions of a Shopaholic” are just a few. He is a man of many roles.

When Dancy came on stage to accept his award he said that watching the montage backstage without sound was like watching “a trailer for the weirdest movie ever made.”

He thanked SCAD and Savannah and embraced the rich welcome the South has given him. He hesitated, then ended his acceptance speech with, “Enjoy the goat film.”

The crowd erupted in laughter as Dancy covered his face. He saved it with, “We were in Greece last year and there is a film being made about goats that stare at men.”

This up-and-coming actor can still laugh at himself.

Source: SCAD District

Tonight in Savannah, Georgia, Hugh was honored with the “Spotlight Award” for his work in Adam. Check out our pictures in the gallery, and if you took any, yourself, be sure to submit them to our website!

• 12 x November 3rd: 12th Annual Savannah Film Festival – Receiving Award

British actor Hugh Dancy is to be honored with the Spotlight Award at the upcoming 12th annual Savannah Film Festival, organizers said.

Dancy is to be presented with the prize Nov. 3 for his performance in this year’s Fox Searchlight release, “Adam.”

The actor’s film credits include “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” “Evening” and “The Jane Austen Book Club.” He is also set to star in the MCC Theater’s Joe Mantello-directed Off-Broadway production of “The Pride,” which previews at Manhattan’s Lucille Lortel Theater Jan. 27.

The Savannah Film Festival is to run from Oct. 31- Nov. 7.

Other special guests expected to attend the festival are Patricia Clarkson, Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Emmy Rossum and Jeremy Renner.

Clarkson is slated to receive an Achievement in Cinema Award at a screening of her new film, Woody Allen’s “Whatever Works.” Harrelson and Foster, who star in opening-night film “The Messenger,” also will receive Achievement in Cinema awards, while Rossum will be honored with the Young Hollywood Award prior to a showing of her film “Dare,” and Renner will receive a Spotlight Award for his performance in “The Hurt Locker,” which will also screen at the festival, organizers said.

Source: UPI