Catherine Deneuve, 68, will be the recipient of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s 39th Chaplin Award. The annual fundraising gala benefiting Lincoln Center programs will be held on Monday, April 2, at the Alice Tully Hall in New York. The evening will include films clips and a party. (Full list of Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC) Chaplin Award Honorees can be found further below.)
Catherine Deneuve’s career spans more than five decades, from André Hunebelle’s The Schoolgirls (1957), Jacques-Gérard Cornu’s Ladies Man (1960), and Michel Fermaud and Jacques Poitrenaud’s The Door Slams 1960) to her latest efforts: Christophe Honoré’s The Beloved, shown at last year’s Cannes Film Festival; Thierry Klifa’s His Mother’s Eyes; and Laurent Tirard’s upcoming Astérix et Obélix: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, as Cordelia, the Queen of England, opposite frequent costar Gérard Depardieu and Edouard Baer.
Deneuve became a star singing (with a dubbed voice) along with Nino Castelnuovo in Jacques Demy’s Palme d’Or-winning musical, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg in 1964. Among her other notable 1960s films were Roman Polanski’s Repulsion (1965); Demy’s less successful follow-up musical The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), in which Deneuve costarred with her sister Françoise Dorleác, in addition to Danielle Darrieux, Gene Kelly, Jacques Perrin, and George Chakiris; Terence Young’s Mayerling (1968), with Omar Sharif; François Truffaut’s Mississippi Mermaid (1969), with Jean-Paul Belmondo; Stuart Rosenberg’s The April Fools (1969), with Jack Lemmon; and, most notably of all, as a housewife/sex worker in Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour (1967).
Deneuve’s career continued in full force throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Her movies included Buñuel’s Oscar-nominated Tristana (1970), with Fernando Rey; Demy’s fantasy musical Donkey Skin (1970), with Jacques Perrin; Jean-Pierre Melville’s Un Flic (1972), with Alain Delon and Richard Crenna; and Robert Aldrich’s Hustle (1975), with Burt Reynolds.
Also, Truffaut’s Oscar-nominated The Last Metro (1980), costarring with Gérard Depardieu, and for which she won the César Award for Best Actress; Claude Berri’s I Love You All (1980), with Depardieu and Jean-Louis Trintignant; Tony Scott’s The Hunger (1983), with Susan Sarandon and David Bowie; and André Téchiné’s Scene of the Crime (1986), reunited with Danielle Darrieux.
In addition to winning her second César, Deneuve received her first (and so far only) Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her Southeast Asia plantation owner in Régis Wargnier’s Indochine (1992), with Vincent Perez. (Deneuve has been nominated for a total of 11 Prix César, including one nomination as Best Supporting Actress for Valérie Lemercier’s Palais royal!.)
Among Deneuve’s more than 40 films that followed Indochine are Manoel de Oliveira’s The Convent (1995), with John Malkovich, plus two more by de Oliveira: I’m Going Home (2001) and A Talking Picture (2003). Also, Nicole Garcia’s first-rate crime drama Place Vendôme (1998), with Jean-Pierre Bacri; Leos Carax’s controversial Pola X (1999), with Guillaume Depardieu; Lars von Trier’s Palme d’Or-winning musical Dancer in the Dark (2000), with Björk; and François Ozon’s brilliant murder-mystery-comedy-musical-melodrama 8 Women (2002), featuring Darrieux, Isabelle Huppert, and Fanny Ardant, among others.
More recently Deneuve could be seen in Arnaud Despléchin’s A Christmas Tale (2008) and Ozon’s delightful comedy Potiche (2010), also featuring Depardieu. She could also be heard – along with daughter Chiara Mastroianni and Danielle Darrieux – in Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi’s Academy Award-nominated Persepolis (2008), which caused a furor among radical Muslims when shown on Tunisian television a couple of months ago.
Previous winners of the Chaplin Award, first handed out in 1972 to Charles Chaplin himself, include Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Laurence Olivier, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Claudette Colbert, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Davis, James Stewart, Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Diane Keaton, Michael Douglas, and Sidney Poitier.
Deneuve is only the fourth Chaplin Award recipient who hasn’t had an extensive Hollywood career. Her predecessors were Yves Montand (1988), Alec Guinness (1987), and Federico Fellini (1985).
Catherine Deneuve image: Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Charles Chaplin & Bette Davis + Meryl Streep: Film Society of Lincoln Center Chaplin Award Recipients
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 place 43 years earlier, at the very first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929. Chaplin, who won the award for directing, writing, and acting in The Circus, didn’t show up to get his booty the first time around. However, he was in attendance in 1972, when he was greeted with a long standing ovation.
As quoted in Mason Wiley and Damien Bona’s Inside Oscar, while looking for the places he used to know in Los Angeles, a dismayed Chaplin remarked: “It’s all banks, banks, banks!” Considering that right-wingers were reportedly planning to protest Chaplin’s appearance at the Oscars, the screen icon had to enter the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion through the theater’s underground gagage. (As an aside, had Chaplin returned to L.A. today, he’d probably have exclaimed, “It’s all stripmalls, stripmalls, stripmalls!”)
Below is the full list of Film Society of Lincoln Center Chaplin Award Honorees. As can be attested, the FSLC:
2012 Catherine Deneuve
2011 Sidney Poitier
2010 Michael Douglas
2009 Tom Hanks
2008 Meryl Streep
2007 Diane Keaton
2006 Jessica Lange
2005 Dustin Hoffman
2004 Michael Caine
2003 Susan Sarandon
2002 Francis Ford Coppola
2001 Jane Fonda
2000 Al Pacino
1999 Mike Nichols
1998 Martin Scorsese
1997 Sean Connery
1996 Clint Eastwood
1995 Shirley MacLaine
1994 Robert Altman
1993 Jack Lemmon
1992 Gregory Peck
1991 Audrey Hepburn
1990 James Stewart & Paul Newman
1989 Bette Davis
1988 Yves Montand
1987 Alec Guinness
1986 Elizabeth Taylor
1985 Federico Fellini
1984 Claudette Colbert
1983 Laurence Olivier
1982 Billy Wilder
1981 Barbara Stanwyck
1980 John Huston
1979 Bob Hope
1978 George Cukor
1975 Joanne Woodward
1974 Alfred Hitchcock
1973 Fred Astaire
1972 Charles Chaplin
Martin Scorsese to receive British Academy Fellowship
Martin Scorsese will be honored with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ Fellowship, “the highest accolade bestowed upon an individual in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film.”
Scorsese, whose credits include Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, and this year’s Hugo, has to date received nine BAFTA Award nominations, winning three statuettes for Goodfellas (1990). He is also the founder and chair of film preservation organizations The Film Foundation and the World Cinema Foundation.
Scorsese, will be handed his Fellowship at the BAFTA Awards ceremony on Feb. 12 in London.
Martin Scorsese BAFTA Film Award nominations
To date, Martin Scorsese has been shortlisted for seven Best Director BAFTA Awards, winning once – for Goodfellas, for which he also took home BAFTAs as the film’s co-producer (with Irwin Winkler) and co-screenwriter (with Nicholas Pileggi).
Here are Scorsese’s six other Best Director (film) nominations (followed by the year of the BAFTA ceremony):
- The Departed (2007)
- The Aviator (2005)
- Gangs of New York (2003)
- The King of Comedy (1984)
- Taxi Driver (1977)
- Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1976)
Additionally, Scorsese has been nominated for two BAFTA TV Awards:
- Boardwalk Empire (2011).
- No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005; shared with Nigel Sinclair and Anthony Wall).
Mostly male, British/American BAFTA Fellows
Previous BAFTA (film/TV/video games) Fellowship recipients – an overwhelmingly male, British/American group of honorees – include: Alfred Hitchcock, Sean Connery, Elizabeth Taylor, Stanley Kubrick, Jeanne Moreau, Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Christie, Ingmar Bergman, Steven Spielberg, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench, Charles Chaplin, David Lean, Alec Guinness, Fred Zinnemann, Federico Fellini, Richard Attenborough.
Christopher Lee became a Fellow last February.
The nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards will be announced on Tuesday, Jan. 17.
Broadcast by the BBC in the U.K., the ceremony will be held on Feb. 12. Stephen Fry will host the proceedings.
Martin Scorsese image: BAFTA.