Fifteen actors, ranging alphabetically from Julie Andrews to Meryl Streep, will be inducted this year into the Actors Hall of Fame.
The list of honorees, which the organization's president, Rusty Citron, will unveil Thursday, also includes Robert De Niro, Judi Dench, Robert Duvall, Kirk Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, Olivia de Havilland, Hal Holbrook, Anthony Hopkins, James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, William H. Macy and Maggie Smith.
The Actors Hall of Fame honors career achievement in theater, film and television. Criteria for nomination include peer recognition and awards, humanitarian contribution to the dramatic arts and education and a demonstrated advancement of the craft of acting.
Honorees are voted for by members of the Actors Hall of Fame's board of electors, who are dramatic arts educators representing more than 100 accredited colleges and universities.
The new inductees join the 38 charter members of the hall.
An induction ceremony and celebration will take place this year in Los Angeles.
The Board of Electors of The Actors Hall of Fame has previously named 38 legendary actors and drama coaches as charter inductees to The Actors Hall of Fame.
George Arliss Fred Astaire Ethel Barrymore John Barrymore Lionel Barrymore Maurice Barrymore Humphrey Bogart Fanny Brice George Burns James Cagney Charles Chaplin Irene Dunne Douglas Fairbanks Lynne Fontanne Lillian Gish Helen Hayes Al Jolson Edmund Kean Buster Keaton Charles Laughton Harold Lloyd Alfred Lunt Fredric March Groucho Marx Hattie McDaniel Paul Muni Mary Pickford William Powell Claude Rains Basil Rathbone Paul Robeson Edward G. Robinson Gloria Swanson Spencer Tracy Rudolph Valentino Mae West
This does not seem to be a particularly legitimate organization. They seem to be mainly a one-man show per their website, anxious to raise money and get attention.
If you show me where they have either a group of known experts - either professional actors and/or scholars/critics - choosing the members, how they make the selections, and so on, then I might change my mind.
They do seem to want to promote teaching the arts in schools - a fine goal. But otherwise, I see this group having no more legitimacy then any random poster here making up his/her own list.
The idea of an Actors Hall of Fame is kinda weird... they're, like, already famous. This is just more celebrity self-congratulatory bull****.
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