Following a banner year with back-to-back critically acclaimed performances in Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, Sterlin Harjo’s The Lowdown and Scott Derrickson’s Black Phone 2, Ethan Hawke headed to the desert to receive a career achievement trophy during the Palm Springs Film Awards Saturday night. The honor — presented during a starry ceremony inside the Palm Springs Convention Center attended by fellow honorees like Miley Cyrus, Adam Sandler, Timothee Chalamet, Kate Hudson, Michael B. Jordan, Amanda Seyfried and others — had Hawke feeling “incredible reflective” about his long and enviable career. Specifically, it had Hawke thinking about “the people who actually made this career that you’re honoring.” “I am the consistent element, yes, but there are so many people sewn in to the fabric of it. I never did anything alone,” Hawke said. As such, he spent the majority of his speech shouting out his many collaborators, beginning with the late River Phoenix with whom he starred in Joe Dante’s Explorers, a 1985 film about a young boy obsessed with 1950s sci-fi movies about aliens. After a recurring …