Lindsay Lohan Receives Vanguard Award at CinemaCon 2025

• Lindsay Lohan was honored with the Vanguard Award through the Large Display Achievement Awards ceremony at CinemaCon 2025
• In her acceptance speech, she recalled the “surreal” expertise of seeing herself on the massive display screen in The Guardian Lure
• Lohan thanked Disney for “all the time” believing in her and her husband Bader Shammas “for his fixed assist”

Lindsay Lohan is getting her flowers at CinemaCon 2025.

The Freakier Friday actress, 38, was honored through the annual Las Vegas conference’s closing-night Large Display Achievement Awards on Thursday, April 3, giving a touching acceptance speech as she accepted the night’s Vanguard Award.

“Thanks a lot for this award. It means greater than you already know to me,” she stated. “I’ve grown up on this trade, and I am so proud to nonetheless be doing what I like. There’s nothing just like the magic of cinema.”

She continued, recalling the sensation of seeing herself act on the massive display screen for “the primary time” in The Guardian Lure, which launched in 1998 when she was 12. “It was so surreal, however I felt proper at residence,” she stated concerning the expertise.

Lohan issued a number of thanks, singling out Disney for “all the time” believing in her and husband Bader Shammas “for his fixed assist and constantly encouraging me.” She additionally celebrated “a lifetime love” that she shares together with her followers.

“Thanks CinemaCon for believing in me,” she concluded.

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Lohan has been working in movie because the late ’90s, most notably in roles all through her childhood and teenage years in films like The Guardian Lure (1998), which marked her big-screen debut, in addition to Freaky Friday (2003), Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004), Imply Women (2004), Herbie: Totally Loaded (2005) and Simply My Luck (2006).

Extra just lately, Lohan has appeared within the 2024 Netflix vacation romantic comedies Irish Want and Our Little Secret, marking what many followers have dubbed the actress’s “Lohanaissance.”

She is going to subsequent reprise her co-lead position of Anna Coleman reverse onscreen mother Jamie Lee Curtis as Tess Coleman in Freakier Friday, the long-awaited sequel to Freaky Friday, which they each teased at CinemaCon.

“The story picks up years after Tess (Curtis, 66) and Anna (Lohan) endured an identification disaster. Anna now has a daughter of her personal and a soon-to-be stepdaughter,” teases a synopsis. “As they navigate the myriad challenges that come when two households merge, Tess and Anna uncover that lightning may certainly strike twice.”

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Lohan was honored alongside a number of different stars at CinemaCon on Thursday, like Channing Tatum, who obtained the Decade of Achievement in Movie Award, and Ana de Armas, who was named Motion Star of the 12 months forward of her upcoming John Wick spinoff flick Ballerina.

Iconic comedy duo Cheech & Chong, actor David Jonsson, actress Madeleine McGraw and actor Ben Wang had been additionally acknowledged on the ceremony, in addition to Glen Powell, who was named Star of the 12 months.

CinemaCon’s Managing Director Mitch Neuhauser beforehand stated in a press release obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, “The Large Display Achievement Awards are [the] exhibition’s method of claiming thanks to the gifted and inventive those who make magic on film screens all throughout the globe. They’re important to the marvel that’s the moviegoing expertise.”

“This yr’s honorees have entertained audiences the world over and we’re excited to rejoice their accomplishments at this yr’s Large Display Achievement Awards,” Neuhauser added.