Oscar 2005: Sidney Lumet to Receive Honorary Award
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Board of Governors has chosen director Sidney Lumet, 80, as the next recipient of the Honorary Oscar. The award, in honor of Lumet’s "brilliant services to screenwriters, performers and the art of the motion picture," will be presented at the 77th Academy Awards ceremony on February 27, 2005.
Lumet, who made his feature-film début in 1957, has been nominated four times for a best directing Academy Award: 12 Angry Men (1957), starring Henry Fonda; Dog Day Afternoon (top photo, 1975), starring Al Pacino; Network (1976), starring William Holden, Peter Finch, and Faye Dunaway; and The Verdict (1982), starring Paul Newman.
Lumet (along with Jay Presson Allen) was also nominated in the best adapted screenplay category for Prince of the City in 1981.
Among Lumet’s other films are Long Day’s Journey into Night (1962), with Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Dean Stockwell, and Jason Robards; the excellent doomsday thriller Fail-Safe (1964), with Henry Fonda; the post-Holocaust drama The Pawnbroker (1965), with Rod Steiger; and The Group (1966), with Candice Bergen.
Also, the unsuccessful The Appointment (1969), with Omar Sharif and Anouk Aimée; the well-received docudrama Serpico (1973), about police corruption, starring Al Pacino; the blockbuster Murder on the Orient Express (1974), with Albert Finney and an all-star cast; and the psychological drama Equus (1977), with Richard Burton and Peter Firth.
Plus the musical The Wiz (1978), with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson; the effective comedy-thriller Deathtrap (1982) with Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve; Garbo Talks (1984) with Anne Bancroft; the thriller The Morning After (1986) with Jane Fonda and Jeff Bridges; the political drama Running on Empty (1988) with Christine Lahti; and Guilty as Sin (1993) with Rebecca De Mornay.
Lumet’s Find Me Guilty, with Vin Diesel, is currently in post-production.
Thus far, 18 performances in Lumet’s films have gone on to receive Academy Award nominations, including those of Hepburn, Steiger, Pacino (twice), Burton, Holden, Finney, and Jane Fonda. Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, and Beatrice Straight (supporting) won Oscars for Network. Ingrid Bergman won a best supporting actress Oscar for Murder on the Orient Express.
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