Tate Taylor
The Help director Tate Taylor arrives at the 2011 Governors Awards, which was held in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood on Saturday, Nov. 12. This year’s honorees were actor James Earl Jones, who had to accept his Honorary Oscar from London (where Jones is playing opposite Vanessa Redgrave in Driving Miss Daisy), makeup artist Dick Smith (Taxi Driver, Altered States), and Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient Oprah Winfrey.
While onstage accepting her award, Winfrey mentioned Taylor’s The Help, a likely Best Picture Oscar contender. The show business magnate said that The Help was like the story of her family, as both her mother and her grandmother had been maids to Southern white families. The Help stars Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Jessica Chastain, and Cicely Tyson.
Tate Taylor photo: Matt Petit / ©A.M.P.A.S.