LOS ANGELES:

The Palm Springs International Film Festival has selected the cast of “Hidden Figures” to receive the ensemble performance award, which will be presented at its gala on Jan 2 at the Palm Springs Convention Center.

Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kevin Costner and Jim Parsons are expected to attend.

“History has its share of incredible untold stories, and this is one of the most compelling, the tale of three AfricanAmerican women — engineers, physicists, mathematicians — who in their work for NASA in the early 1960s were integral in