Hasty Pudding honors Gordon-Levitt

Associated Press

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

Actor, director and producer Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been named the Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals Man of the Year.

Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation’s oldest collegiate theatrical organization, announced Thursday that Gordon-Levitt was selected not just because of acting talent but because he is a “visionary entrepreneur who developed a revolutionary platform for artistic content creation and distribution.”

Gordon-Levitt will be roasted and receive his pudding pot Feb. 5. He will next be seen in Oliver Stone’s “Snowden,” playing Edward Snowden, who leaked classified NSA documents.