Attend this film event: The Coolidge Awards with Viggo Mortensen

A sex symbol, a role model, and one of the best and smartest actors of his generation, Viggo Mortensen joins a list that includes Meryl Streep, Jonathan Demme, and Robert Altman in receiving the esteemed Coolidge Award. The festivities start at noon with a screening of David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises (2007), for which Mortenson received a Best Actor Oscar nomination and which includes the unforgettable nude knife fight in a sauna. Steamy stuff, followed by the man himself in the flesh, as Mortensen participates in a Q&A. The award ceremony itself takes place at 8 pm followed by another Q&A hosted by WBUR's Robin Young. It's all at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline on Monday, March 5 | $20; $17 students, seniors  [award ceremony SOLD OUT]| 617.734.2501 or coolidge.org.