Lauren Bacall, Annette Bening, Jeff Bridges: Governors Awards 2009

Honorary Award recipient Lauren Bacall, the star of classics such as To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Key Largo, How to Marry a Millionaire, and Designing Woman. Bacall was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for The Mirror Has Two Faces in 1996.

“A man at last,” the 85-year-old Bacall exclaimed while holding her Honorary Oscar. “I’m here to stay so you better get used to the idea.”

Three-time Oscar nominated actress Annette Bening toasts Honorary Award recipient Lauren Bacall during the 2009 Governors Awards in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14.

Gordon Willis, the cinematographer of classics such as The Godfather Part II, All the President’s Men, and The Purple Rose of Cairo, receives his Honorary Award from Jeff Bridges, one of the stars of Robert Benton’s Bad Company, a 1972 Western shot by Willis

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One Response to “Lauren Bacall, Annette Bening, Jeff Bridges: Governors Awards 2009”

1. Graceann Macleod on November 16th, 2009

   What a stunningly beautiful photo of Lauren Bacall. It looks like it was a lovely evening all around.

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