Days before the Oscars, Dev Patel, and Lion, are already winning awards

Dev Patel will be honoured with a best supporting actor award at the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, days before the Oscars.

Dev Patel will receive an award for best supporting actor for his performance in the film Lion at LA Italia Festival.

British actor Dev Patel poses with the award for a Supporting Actor for his work on the film Lion at the BAFTA British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London. (AFP)

The 26-year-old actor will be bestowed with the honour at the closing ceremony of the fest at the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre with its own awards show before the Oscars, confirmed The Hollywood Reporter.

At the opening event of the awards, director Garth Davis’ film bagged the honours for best film and best young actor for eight-year-old Sunny Pawar.

Patel and Pawar played the older and younger versions of Saroo Brierley, an Indian man who is separated from his family as a child and grows up with an adopted family in Australia, who finally traces his journey back to his roots.

The Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.

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