Jerry Lewis Articles

Nikki Finke on the announcement that Jerry Lewis will be given the 2009 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at Deadline Hollywood: "I also have learned that protests are coming into the Academy about its Board of Governors’ choice of Jerry Lewis to receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. The controversy is over his recent repeated and public anti-gay slurs. The Hollywood gay community, joined by much of [...]

Jerry Lewis, 82, will receive the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2009 Academy Awards ceremony on February 22, 2009. The Jean Hersholt award — an Oscar statuette — is given to "an individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry." Jerry Lewis is well known for raising funds every year [...]

Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Sideways Best Film: Sideways Runner-up: Million Dollar Baby Best Foreign Language Film: Shi mian mai fu / House of Flying Daggers directed by Zhang Yimou Runner-up: Diarios de motocicleta / The Motorcycle Diaries directed by Walter Salles Best Director: Alexander Payne, Sideways Runner-up: Martin Scorsese, The Aviator Best Actor: Liam Neeson, Kinsey Runner-up: Paul Giamatti, Sideways Best Actress: Imelda Staunton, [...]