European Film Awards 2007: Jeanne Moreau, Liv Ullmann, Emmanuelle Béart

European Film Academy Awards 2007
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Jan Josef Liefers and Emmanuelle Béart

Sabine Azéma and André Dussollier

Yves Marmion and Wim Wenders

Henning Carlsen, Jörn Donner, Jeanne Moreau and Liv Ullmann

 

Honorary Oscars Bypass Women

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-one years and 77 (my count*) Honorary Oscar winners later, a mere eight women have been recognized for their cinematic oeuvre. The chosen 8 — 6 of them actresses, plus one actress-producer — are: Greta Garbo (at the 1955 ceremony), Lillian Gish (1971), actress-producer Mary Pickford (1976), editor Margaret Booth (1978), Barbara Stanwyck (1982), Myrna Loy (1991), Sophia Loren (1991), and Deborah Kerr (1994).
Considering the amount of female talent that has gone un-honored these past seven decades, I find it impossible not to believe that the Board of Governors of the Academy of [...]