Gregory Peck Articles

The Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual fundraising gala began in 1972. It first honoree was Charles Chaplin, returning to the United States after two decades in exile. Since then, the award has been renamed for Chaplin. That same year, Chaplin was saluted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with his second Honorary Oscar. The first such award for Chaplin had taken [...]

Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Hollywood Chinese Theatre Why Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner Deserve Chinese Theatre Cement Honor The list below (and the one on the next page) features those who have left their handprints and footprints at Hollywood's Chinese Theatre. Curiously, during the studio era, most of the stars and directors who took part in the ceremony were employed by one of three [...]

Five-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close will receive the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the 59th edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival. Why is the award called Donostia? Because that's the Basque name of the coastal town of San Sebastian, located in northern Spain's Basque Country. The first recipient of the Donostia Award was Hollywood veteran Gregory Peck (right) at the 1986 festival. Of the [...]

Mary Badham, Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird Taviani Brothers' PADRE PADRONE: Father's Day Movies Gregory Peck's compassionate, liberal-minded attorney Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird is one of Hollywood's iconic film characters. Adapted by Horton Foote from Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird remains one of the best-known movies of the 1960s. Atticus is notable not only because of his defense of [...]