Alexander Payne stepped out for Hollywood’s largest evening along with his little lady by his aspect.
The Oscar-nominated filmmaker, 63, stepped out to help his movie, The Holdovers, along with his 6-year-old daughter in tow. The 2 held palms and smiled for the digicam, along with his daughter sporting a striped knit high and massive tulle skirt whereas her dad opted for a basic tuxedo.
Payne shares his daughter with ex Maria Kontos.
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In November, the proud dad introduced his daughter with him to the sixty fourth Thessaloniki Movie Competition in Greece. The outing got here simply hours earlier than he attended the premiere of his newest, The Kids of Winter on the Olympia within the nation, the place he additionally holds citizenship.
The Holdovers noticed Payne reunite with actor Paul Giamatti, whom he labored with within the 2004 Oscar-winning Sideways.
“Paul and I share a genuinely distinctive — distinctive in my expertise, anyway — sense of what film we’re making,” Payne instructed PEOPLE in December.
“He can do each comedy and drama — usually and on the similar time — and he makes even unhealthy dialogue work, so he’s even higher with good dialogue,” the filmmaker shared.