Comments on: Honorary Oscars Bypass Women http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/honorary-oscars-bypass-women/ thinking film Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:41:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Tom http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/honorary-oscars-bypass-women/#comment-118360 Tom Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:18:43 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2007/02/13/honorary-oscars-bypass-women/#comment-118360 This has long been a sore issue with the Academy for me, like 30 years or so, back when they gave the career achivement award to Alec Guinness. Yes, he deserved being honored but can anyone defend giving him such an award over Gloria Swanson or Mae West, both of them alive and well at the time and whose cinema careers certainly dwarf Mr. Guinness'. Jane Russell founded WAIF back in the 1950's which has since placed over 50,000 children in American homes yet she has yet to be given the Humanitarian award and I wonder if she has ever even being seriously considered. There would be no Motion Picture Home without Mary Pickford's activity and yet she was apparently never considered for the Humanitarian award either despite the fact that thousands in the industry have benefited from it. And they were ridiculously late giving Mary the "career achievement" Oscar - and THAT was met by a lot of bitchy mysogenetic talk and articles about how old and frail she was! This has long been a sore issue with the Academy for me, like 30 years or so, back when they gave the career achivement award to Alec Guinness. Yes, he deserved being honored but can anyone defend giving him such an award over Gloria Swanson or Mae West, both of them alive and well at the time and whose cinema careers certainly dwarf Mr. Guinness’.

Jane Russell founded WAIF back in the 1950’s which has since placed over 50,000 children in American homes yet she has yet to be given the Humanitarian award and I wonder if she has ever even being seriously considered.

There would be no Motion Picture Home without Mary Pickford’s activity and yet she was apparently never considered for the Humanitarian award either despite the fact that thousands in the industry have benefited from it. And they were ridiculously late giving Mary the “career achievement” Oscar – and THAT was met by a lot of bitchy mysogenetic talk and articles about how old and frail she was!

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