Actor-director-producer-etc. Warren Beatty, 71, has just become the 36th recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award. The ceremony took place on June 11, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
Among those present were Jane Fonda; Beatty's Bonnie and Clyde co-players Faye Dunaway and Michael J. Pollard; Beatty's Heaven Can Wait co-player Dyan Cannon; Beatty's Reds co-stars Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson; Beatty's Ishtar co-star Dustin Hoffman and director Elaine May; Beatty's Bugsy co-star (and wife) Annette Bening and director Barry Levinson; former U.S. president Bill Clinton; former U.S. senator and presidential candidate Gary Hart; and sister Shirley MacLaine.
In addition to tributes from those present, the ceremony also featured taped tributes from Barbra Streisand, Gene Hackman, and Goldie Hawn.
An edited version of the Beatty AFI tribute will air on the USA Network at 9pm PDT on June 25, 2008.
Photos: Frazer Harrison / Getty Images for AFI (Ringwald, Pollard, Bening & Beatty, Fonda arrival, Dunaway), Kevin Winter / Getty Images for AFI (Hart & Huffington, Chase, Mendes, Downey Jr, Hefner, Garfunkel, Fonda podium, Cannon, Levinson, Beatty podium, Keaton, Pacino & Beatty, Nicholson, Brown, Waters), Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images for AFI (Tarantino, Hoffman, May, Cheadle, Clinton, Carradine)
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Bill Clinton, Don Cheadle at Warren Beatty AFI Tribute
Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton at Warren Beatty AFI Tribute
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sorry….i´m not used to leaving comments and now see punctuation mistakes but don´t know how to erase…ie….give warren a break!
me again…..what I mean to say is…give warren a break?
I worked on Bugsy…..when the two met.
I was Annette´s stand in and also have a few lines to say as a reporter….Only female with a bunch of guys "is it true you might be getting a divorce Bugsy ?…
Steady with the bashing folks!
Does Warren Beatty really deserve a tribute?
Well, okay, Reds and Bonnie and Clyde.
But still……
He's the guy in Promise Her Anything, Lilith, The Only Game in Town, the dreadful Shampoo, The Parallax View, Ishtar, and that last one that was such a monumental flop that he hasn't had the guts to make another movie since.
Why not give a tribute to someone like Lauren Bacall or Joan Fontaine? Or even his sister, Shirley MacLaine?
Molly Ringwald looks GOOD and the same can be said for Hugh Hefner's companions.
Was so sorry to have missed the recent AFI to Warren Beatty. I never miss them and was upset I had. Is there a way to purchase it on video?
Thanks,
Darlene Bonnar
Oregon
In addition to being boring, those sorts of tributes are also the acme of phonyness. People who couldn't give a shit about Warren Beatty and past/future honorees, whether at the AFI or elsewhere, show up to get their picture taken, and hopefully find their names listed as guests at an "in-event."
There are "heartfelt," teary-eyed speeches about the greatness of the honoree, and little stupid jokes that are as funny as capital punishment.
But then again, after stuffing their faces and having a few drinks mixed with a few pills and/or powder, people will always find ways to enjoy themselves. Even if those hypocrites must laugh at the idiotic jokes and applaud the dishonest, mind-numbing speeches.
How very human…
Too bad Leslie Caron's former husband Peter Hall wasn't around to pay Warren Beatty his own sort of tribute.