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Elizabeth Banks to receive 2019 Pioneer of the Year Award

Elizabeth Banks has become the first female director to be honoured with the Pioneer of the Year Award by the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation.

According to Deadline, the actor-director will receive the award on September 25 at the Pioneer of the Year Dinner -- the annual fundraiser benefiting the WRMPPF’s Pioneers Assistance Fund (PAF) which provides financial support to individuals in the theatre community facing illness, injury or other life-changing events -- at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills.