Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Articles

Elizabeth Taylor I wonder if Elizabeth Taylor would have become a legend, still remembered more than 40 years after the release of her last major box-office hit, had it not been for her multiple marriages and divorces, the Eddie Fisher-Debbie Reynolds scandal, the Eddie Fisher-Richard Burton scandal, the many brushes with death, the runaway costs of Cleopatra (adjusting for inflation, quite possibly the most expensive [...]

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 [...]

Melanie Griffith, Tippi Hedren (Photo: Bill Dow) Tippi Hedren, the star of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and Marnie, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at The Humane Society of the United States‘ 2010 Genesis Awards. Hedren, who will be getting her trophy from the hands of daughter Melanie Griffith, will be honored for dedicating more than 40 years to the protection of animals, especially big [...]

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 "unfortunately" because in my view the presence of veterans like, say, Deborah Kerr or Ennio Morricone, are the [...]