An Evening with Paul Giamatti, featuring Sideways

Enzian is proud to welcome two-time Academy Award nominee and acclaimed actor, Paul Giamatti, to the Florida Film Festival. Following the film screening, Mr. Giamatti will be present for a Q&A with the audience.

Limited post show meet and greet tickets are available! Post-Show Meet and Greet includes one photo on a personal device and one personal item to be signed.

This visiting artist event is presented through the kind generosity of Teresa Williams and Vonesa Wenzel.

Sideways: 

A wine-soaked road trip through California’s Santa Ynez Valley provides a pair of affable but mismatched friends—disillusioned writer Miles (Paul Giamatti) and carefree soon-to-be-married actor Jack (Thomas Hayden Church)—with an unexpected opportunity to confront where they are in life and what they truly want before time, and opportunity, pass them by. At the film’s heart is Giamatti’s extraordinary performance as Miles, a man defined by quiet failures, fragile ego, and aching vulnerability. Giamatti brings remarkable depth and humanity to the role, balancing acerbic humor with deep melancholy, making Miles both frustrating and profoundly relatable. His work anchors the film’s emotional resonance, elevating what could be a simple character study into something enduring and deeply affecting.

Alexander Payne’s Sideways is one of the most celebrated and beloved films of the 2000s and won the Academy Award® for Best Adapted Screenplay. Giamatti was nominated for the Critics’ Choice, Golden Globe®, and SAG Award, and won the Independent Spirit Award for his brilliant performance. 

Paul Giamatti:

One of the most versatile actors of his generation, Paul Giamatti can currently be seen in Season Seven of Netflix’s Black Mirror, which earned him a 2026 Golden Globe® nomination for Best Actor in a Limited Series. He can also be seen in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale and in the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Giamatti can next be seen starring opposite Julianne Moore in Jesse Eisenberg’s feature film No One Cares, as well as in Tom McCarthy’s feature The Statement, opposite Paul Rudd.

He previously starred in Focus Features’ heartwarming period drama The Holdovers. His moving performance was met with praise from critics and audiences alike, receiving the Golden Globe® Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture—Comedy or Musical, the Critics Choice Award, the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor, and The Palm Springs International Film Festival “Icon Award.” Giamatti was also nominated for the SAG, BAFTA, and Academy Award® for Best Actor. Giamatti also starred in the second season of HBO Europe’s hit Spanish-horror series 30 Coins, as well as in the final season of the Showtime hit Billions, for which he has been nominated for a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and a Critics Choice Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series over the course of the series. Previous television credits include HBO’s Too Big to Fail, which earned Giamatti his third SAG Award as well as an Emmy® and a Golden Globe® nomination in 2011. In 2008, Giamatti won Emmy®, SAG, and Golden Globe® awards for Best Actor in a Miniseries for his portrayal of the title character in HBO’s seven-part, Emmy Award®-winning miniseries John Adams.

Giamatti’s selected film credits include the five-time Oscar®-winner Saving Private Ryan; Alexander Payne’s Academy Award®-winning dramedy Sideways, which earned Giamatti Golden Globe® and SAG Award nominations; and the Academy Award®-nominated Barney’s Version in 2011, which earned him the Golden Globe® for Best Actor in a Motion Picture—Comedy or Musical. In 2006, his performance in Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man earned him his first SAG Award and a Broadcast Film Critics’ Award for Best Supporting Actor, as well as Oscar® and Golden Globe® nominations in the same category.

No discounts or table reservations will be available for this show. Tickets for this event may not be refunded.

_{2004, 124 Minutes, USA, Directed by Alexander Payne, Rated R}