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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Honorary Oscar</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/honorary-oscar/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>James Earl Jones, THE EXORCIST Makeup Artist Dick Smith Receive Honorary Oscars</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/james-earl-jones-the-exorcist-makeup-artist-dick-smith-honorary-oscar/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/james-earl-jones-the-exorcist-makeup-artist-dick-smith-honorary-oscar/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:23:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35862</guid> <description><![CDATA[James Earl Jones, Mary J. Blige James Earl Jones, Oprah Winfrey, and Dick Smith were honored at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Governors Awards on Saturday, November 12, at the ballroom adjacent to Hollywood &#38; Highland's Kodak Theatre. Jones, a Best Actor nominee for The Great White Hope (1970), and Smith, Oscar-winning makeup artist for Amadeus (with Paul LeBlanc), were the recipients [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/james-earl-jones-the-exorcist-makeup-artist-dick-smith-honorary-oscar/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>James Earl Jones, Oprah Winfrey, Dick Smith: Honorary Oscar, Jean Hersholt Award Recipients</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/james-earl-jones-dick-smith-oprah-winfrey-honorary-oscar/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/james-earl-jones-dick-smith-oprah-winfrey-honorary-oscar/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:40:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27504</guid> <description><![CDATA[Actor James Earl Jones and veteran makeup artist Dick Smith will receive Honorary Awards, and former television hostess Oprah Winfrey will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced. The awards will be presented at the Academy’s 3rd Annual Governors Awards dinner on Saturday, November 12, at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#38; Highland Center. The information [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/james-earl-jones-dick-smith-oprah-winfrey-honorary-oscar/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Greer Garson, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford, Ava Gardner: Deceased Honorary Oscar-less</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/greer-garson-claudette-colbert-joan-crawford-honorary-oscar/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/greer-garson-claudette-colbert-joan-crawford-honorary-oscar/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:43:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26596</guid> <description><![CDATA[Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson in William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver (top); Don Ameche, Claudette Colbert in Mitchell Leisen's Midnight (middle); Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi in Frank Lloyd's The Divine Lady (bottom) Doris Day, Danielle Darrieux, Joan Fontaine, Barbra Streisand: Honorary Oscars and Women Pt.2 Among the distinguished female film professionals in Hollywood and elsewhere who have gone to the Great Beyond without having received the Academy's [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/greer-garson-claudette-colbert-joan-crawford-honorary-oscar/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Doris Day, Danielle Darrieux, Joan Fontaine, Barbra Streisand: Honorary Oscars and Women Pt.2</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/doris-day-danielle-darrieux-barbra-streisand-honorary-oscar/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/doris-day-danielle-darrieux-barbra-streisand-honorary-oscar/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:42:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=17271</guid> <description><![CDATA[Danielle Darrieux in Max Ophüls' La Ronde (top); Darrieux, Isabelle Huppert in François Ozon's 8 Women (bottom) Honorary Oscars Bypass Women: Part I Among the female film veterans with more than three decades of screen work and who have yet to receive an Honorary Oscar for career achievement are actresses Danielle Darrieux (nearly eight decades in films, and still active), Doris Day, Michèle Morgan, Julie [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/doris-day-danielle-darrieux-barbra-streisand-honorary-oscar/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Honorary Oscars Bypass Women: Deborah Kerr, Lauren Bacall, Greta Garbo Exceptions to the Rule</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/honorary-oscars-bypass-women/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/honorary-oscars-bypass-women/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:38:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2007/02/13/honorary-oscars-bypass-women/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mary Pickford At the 1936 Academy Awards ceremony, D.W. Griffith became the first individual to win an Honorary Award for his body of work. Seventy-five years and 84 (my count*) Honorary Oscar winners later &#8212; including last year's Eli Wallach, Kevin Brownlow, and Jean-Luc Godard &#8212; a mere nine women have been recognized for their cinematic oeuvre and/or for their pioneering film work. The chosen [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/honorary-oscars-bypass-women/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>9</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jean-Luc Godard Will Skip Governors Awards</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-luc-godard-will-skip-governors-awards/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-luc-godard-will-skip-governors-awards/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:30:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25375</guid> <description><![CDATA[Shocking news. Jean-Luc Godard has &#34;regretfully&#34; notified Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Tom Sherak that he will not pick up his Honorary Award in person at the Governors Awards on Nov. 13. The notification followed &#34;a two-month-long cordial exchange of correspondence&#34; between Godard and Sherak. According to Sherak, Godard &#34;reiterated his thanks for the award, and also sent his good wishes to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-luc-godard-will-skip-governors-awards/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jean-Luc Godard *May* Show Up at the 2010 Governors Awards Ceremony</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-luc-godard-2010-governors-awards-ceremony/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-luc-godard-2010-governors-awards-ceremony/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:52:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25116</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#160; Jean-Luc Godard has &#34;graciously thanked&#34; the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by way of a &#34;cordial, hand-written note&#34; sent to Academy president Tom Sherak last week. A couple of weeks ago, the Academy's Board of Governors had voted Godard an Honorary Oscar, along with film historian/preservationist Kevin Brownlow and actor Eli Wallach. Producer/director Francis Ford Coppola will be given the Irving G. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-luc-godard-2010-governors-awards-ceremony/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jean-Luc Godard, 2010 Honorary Oscar Recipient, Missing in Action</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-luc-godard-2010-honorary-oscar-recipient-missing-in-action/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-luc-godard-2010-honorary-oscar-recipient-missing-in-action/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:07:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25053</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#160; Jean-Luc Godard, who'll turn 80 next December, is &#34;missing,&#34; announces Juli Weiner in a clever Vanity Fair piece. &#34;So missing, in fact,&#34; explains Weiner, &#34;that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been unable to inform Godard that he is the recipient of an Honorary Academy Award.&#34; That's serious. “We've been attempting to reach him since 7 o'clock Tuesday evening and we [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-luc-godard-2010-honorary-oscar-recipient-missing-in-action/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2011: Francis Ford Coppola Gets Thalberg Award, Kevin Brownlow Gets Honorary Oscar</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/francis-ford-coppola-kevin-brownlow-honorary-oscar-2011-thalberg-award/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/francis-ford-coppola-kevin-brownlow-honorary-oscar-2011-thalberg-award/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:18:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25046</guid> <description><![CDATA[Francis Ford Coppola Oscar 2011: Jean-Luc Godard, Eli Wallach Honorary Oscar Recipients Kevin Brownlow (right), 72, is the most renowned silent-film historian and preservationist. Among his various restoration projects are Abel Gance’s epic Napoleon (1927), with Albert Dieudonné; Rex Ingram’s blockbuster The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), starring Rudolph Valentino and Alice Terry; and Raoul Walsh's fantasy The Thief of Bagdad (1924), starring Douglas [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/francis-ford-coppola-kevin-brownlow-honorary-oscar-2011-thalberg-award/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2011: Jean-Luc Godard, Eli Wallach Honorary Oscar Recipients</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-luc-godard-eli-wallach-honorary-oscar-2011/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-luc-godard-eli-wallach-honorary-oscar-2011/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:17:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25045</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jean-Luc Godard (above), Eli Wallach (right), Kevin Brownlow, and Francis Ford Coppola have been chosen as the recipients of the 2010 special Academy Awards. Godard, Brownlow, and Wallach will receive Honorary Awards; Coppola will be handed the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. No Jean Hersholt Award (for &#34;good deeds&#34;) will be given out this year. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-luc-godard-eli-wallach-honorary-oscar-2011/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lauren Bacall on TCM: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, THE BIG SLEEP</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lauren-bacall-to-have-and-have-not-the-big-sleep-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lauren-bacall-to-have-and-have-not-the-big-sleep-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:46:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25037</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart in Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep Lauren Bacall, hardly a top box-office attraction in the 1940s or 1950s, but a major &#34;Old Hollywood&#34; star today, will have her Turner Classic Movies &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; day on Wed., Aug. 25. [Lauren Bacall schedule.] Bacall is so prestigious nowadays that she even won an Honorary Oscar last year, a distinction hardly ever [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lauren-bacall-to-have-and-have-not-the-big-sleep-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Sid Ganis Named Governors Awards Producer</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/sid-ganis-producer-governors-awards/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/sid-ganis-producer-governors-awards/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:35:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23640</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lauren Bacall, Honorary Award recipient at the 2009 Governors Awards Former Academy president Sid Ganis has been named the producer of the 2nd Governors Awards, current Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak has announced. On Saturday, November 13, 2010, one or more of the Academy’s special awards – the Honorary Award, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/sid-ganis-producer-governors-awards/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman, Gordon Willis: Governors Awards 2009</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/lauren-bacall-roger-corman-gordon-willis-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/lauren-bacall-roger-corman-gordon-willis-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:15:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18524</guid> <description><![CDATA[Honorary Award recipients Roger Corman, Lauren Bacall, and Gordon Willis at the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on Saturday, November 14. "It's so much better &#8230; that nobody's worrying whether 36.5 million people are watching us or 29.2," remarked Warren Beatty, a former Irving G. Thalberg Award recipient who paid homage to this year's Thalberg Award honoree [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/lauren-bacall-roger-corman-gordon-willis-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Vera Farmiga: Governors Awards 2009</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/tom-hanks-steven-spielberg-vera-farmiga-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/tom-hanks-steven-spielberg-vera-farmiga-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:49:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18533</guid> <description><![CDATA[Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients Saul Zaentz, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Walter Mirisch, and two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks present the Thalberg Award to producer John Calley (The Da Vinci Code, Angels &#038; Demons), who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on Saturday, November 14. Actress Vera Farmiga, a potential contender [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/tom-hanks-steven-spielberg-vera-farmiga-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>George Lucas, Meg Tilly, Kirk Douglas: Governors Awards 2009</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/george-lucas-meg-tilly-kirk-douglas-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/george-lucas-meg-tilly-kirk-douglas-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:42:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18532</guid> <description><![CDATA[Academy Award-nominated actresses Jennifer Tilly (as best supporting actress, for Bullets Over Broadway) and Meg Tilly (also in the best supporting actress category, for Agnes of God), arrive at the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on Saturday, November 14. Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient and two-time best director Academy Award nominee George Lucas with investor/TV [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/george-lucas-meg-tilly-kirk-douglas-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Roger Corman, Anjelica Huston, Sally Kellerman: Governors Awards 2009</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/roger-corman-anjelica-huston-sally-kellerman-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/roger-corman-anjelica-huston-sally-kellerman-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:25:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18531</guid> <description><![CDATA[Honorary Award recipient Roger Corman, the producer-director of cult classics such as House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, Tower of London, The Terror, The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, The Tomb of Ligeia, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and Bloody Mama, arrives at the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on Saturday, November 14. Academy [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/roger-corman-anjelica-huston-sally-kellerman-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gordon Willis, Ron Howard, Dana Delany: Governors Awards 2009</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/gordon-willis-ron-howard-dana-delany-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/gordon-willis-ron-howard-dana-delany-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:16:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18530</guid> <description><![CDATA[Honorary Award recipient Gordon Willis, the cinematographer of classics such as Klute, The Godfather films, Serpico, All the President's Men, Annie Hall, Comes a Horseman, Manhattan, Broadway Danny Rose, and The Purple Rose of Cairo, arrives at the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on Saturday, November 14. Despite his impressive list of credits, Willis has been nominated [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/gordon-willis-ron-howard-dana-delany-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lauren Bacall, Maria Bello, Alec Baldwin: Governors Awards 2009</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/lauren-bacall-maria-bello-alec-baldwin-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/lauren-bacall-maria-bello-alec-baldwin-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:04:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18529</guid> <description><![CDATA[Honorary Award recipient Lauren Bacall, who appeared in, among others, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Young Man with a Horn, How to Marry a Millionaire, Woman's World, Sex and the Single Girl, Murder on the Orient Express, The Fan, and The Mirror Has Two Faces, arrives at the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/lauren-bacall-maria-bello-alec-baldwin-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tom Hanks, Annette Bening, Warren Beatty: Governors Awards 2009</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/tom-hanks-annette-bening-warren-beatty-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/tom-hanks-annette-bening-warren-beatty-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:45:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18528</guid> <description><![CDATA[Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients Dino de Laurentiis, Warren Beatty, Norman Jewison, Saul Zaentz, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Walter Mirisch and two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks present the Thalberg Award to producer John Calley (The Remains of the Day, The Da Vinci Code), who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/tom-hanks-annette-bening-warren-beatty-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Warren Beatty, Steven Spielberg, Dino de Laurentiis: Governors Awards 2009</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/warren-beatty-steven-spielberg-dino-de-laurentiis-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/warren-beatty-steven-spielberg-dino-de-laurentiis-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:33:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18527</guid> <description><![CDATA[Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Warren Beatty, who also won a best director Oscar for Reds in 1982, at the presentation of the Thalberg Award to John Calley, who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on Saturday, November 14. Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Steven Spielberg, who also won two [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/warren-beatty-steven-spielberg-dino-de-laurentiis-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lauren Bacall, Annette Bening, Jeff Bridges: Governors Awards 2009</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/lauren-bacall-annette-bening-jeff-bridges-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/lauren-bacall-annette-bening-jeff-bridges-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:13:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18526</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/lauren-bacall-annette-bening-jeff-bridges-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Warren Beatty, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg: Governors Awards 2009</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/warren-beatty-george-lucas-steven-spielberg-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/warren-beatty-george-lucas-steven-spielberg-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:59:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18525</guid> <description><![CDATA[Past Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients Dino de Laurentiis, Warren Beatty, Saul Zaentz, George Lucas, Norman Jewison, Walter Mirisch, Steven Spielberg presenting this year's Thalberg Award to John Calley, who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood &#038; Highland on Saturday, November 14. Honorary Award recipient Roger Corman, the producer-director of numerous low-budget films including Attack [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/warren-beatty-george-lucas-steven-spielberg-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010: Anjelica Huston, Jonathan Demme, Kirk Douglas to Present Honorary Oscars</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/jonathan-demme-anjelica-huston-kirk-douglas/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/jonathan-demme-anjelica-huston-kirk-douglas/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:43:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18136</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lauren Bacall Oscar winners Anjelica Huston, Jonathan Demme, and Quentin Tarantino, and Honorary Award recipient Kirk Douglas will be some of the presenters at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ first Governors Awards event on November 14 at Hollywood &#38; Highland Center's Grand Ballroom. The evening will feature presentations of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producer-executive John Calley, and Honorary Awards [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/jonathan-demme-anjelica-huston-kirk-douglas/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010: Honorary Awards for Lauren Bacall, Gordon Willis, Roger Corman</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/lauren-bacall-roger-corman-honorary-oscar/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/lauren-bacall-roger-corman-honorary-oscar/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:00:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15886</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lauren Bacall (above), Roger Corman, and Gordon Willis have been chosen by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be the next recipients of the Academy's Honorary Award. Additionally, producer-executive John Calley will be given the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. Previously, special awards were handed out at the Oscar ceremony, but from this year onward they will [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/lauren-bacall-roger-corman-honorary-oscar/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010: Honorary Awards Relocated</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-honorary-awards-relocated/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-honorary-awards-relocated/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:54:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15837</guid> <description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decided to come up with a new annual event to present its special awards – the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and the Honorary Award. I say &#34;unfortunately&#34; because in my view the presence of veterans like, say, Deborah Kerr or Ennio Morricone, are the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-honorary-awards-relocated/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2008: Robert Boyle to Receive Honorary Oscar</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-boyle-honorary-oscar/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-boyle-honorary-oscar/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:53:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-boyle-honorary-oscar/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest Production designer Robert Boyle, 98, a veteran with nearly 100 highly eclectic film credits &#8212; ranging from Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954) to Portnoy's Complaint (1972) &#8212; will receive an Honorary Oscar at the 2008 Academy Awards ceremony on February 24, 2008, &#34;in recognition of one of cinema's great careers in art direction.&#34; Boyle, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/robert-boyle-honorary-oscar/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2007: Ennio Morricone to Receive Honorary Academy Award</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/ennio-morricone-to-receive-honorary-academy-award/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/ennio-morricone-to-receive-honorary-academy-award/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:26:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/12/14/ennio-morricone-to-receive-honorary-academy-award/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Over his 45-year career, prolific composer-conductor Ennio Morricone has created more than 500 scores for both films and television &#8212; including my all-time favorite movie score, the Once Upon a Time in the West ballad. He will finally be given his Oscar due on February 25, 2007, when he'll be picking up an Honorary Academy Award for his contributions to film art. More than a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/ennio-morricone-to-receive-honorary-academy-award/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jules Dassin for the Honorary Oscar?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/jules-dassin-for-the-honorary-oscar/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/jules-dassin-for-the-honorary-oscar/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 02:40:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/11/01/jules-dassin-for-the-honorary-oscar/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Within certain Hollywood circles, there is a movement to pick Jules Dassin, whose film career spans nearly 40 years, as the next recipient of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Honorary Academy Award. Having begun his career at the MGM short-film unit in 1941, Dassin went on to direct several important films noirs of the late 1940s &#8212; among them The Naked City [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/jules-dassin-for-the-honorary-oscar/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2006: Robert Altman to Receive Honorary Oscar</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/robert-altman-to-receive-honorary-oscar/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/robert-altman-to-receive-honorary-oscar/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:52:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=291</guid> <description><![CDATA[Iconoclastic director-producer-writer Robert Altman, 80, will be the next recipient of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Honorary Award, to be presented at the the 2006 Academy Awards ceremony next March 5. The Honorary Award will be given to Altman for &#34;a career that has repeatedly reinvented the art form and inspired filmmakers and audiences alike.&#34; Altman has never won an Oscar despite [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/robert-altman-to-receive-honorary-oscar/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Sidney Lumet: Honorary Oscar 2005</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/sidney-lumet-honorary-oscar/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/sidney-lumet-honorary-oscar/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2004 20:41:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/sidney-lumet-honorary-oscar/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors has chosen director-screenwriter Sidney Lumet, 80, as the next recipient of the Honorary Oscar. The award, in honor of Lumet's &#34;brilliant services to screenwriters, performers and the art of the motion picture,&#34; will be presented at the 2005 Academy Awards ceremony on February 27. Lumet, who made his feature-film [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/sidney-lumet-honorary-oscar/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
