European Film Academy to Honor Sean Connery
The European Film Academy announced yesterday that Scottish actor Sean Connery will receive its Lifetime Achievement Award at this year`s European Film Awards in Berlin.
Previous EFA Lifetime Achievement Award winners include Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni, French actress Jeanne Moreau, French director Claude Chabrol, Spanish director Carlos Saura, Irish actor Richard Harris, Italian film composer Ennio Morricone, and, gasp, the (mostly) British comedy team Monty Python.
Strangely, or perhaps not so strangely when one compares the EFA to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Jeanne Moreau is the only woman in the list.
Thus far, Danielle Darrieux (whose career stretches all the way back to 1931), Michèle Morgan (a relative newcomer, having begun working in films in 1935), Deborah Kerr, Leslie Caron, Sophia Loren, Monica Vitti, Stéphane Audran, Maggie Smith, Liv Ullmann, Agnès Varda, and Catherine Deneuve, have not been deemed worthy of the award.
The 18th EFA awards will be presented on December 3 in Berlin.
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