DEMME, DOUGLAS, HUSTON, TARANTINO TO PRESENT AT GOVERNORS AWARDS
Beverly Hills, CA — Oscar® winners Jonathan Demme, Anjelica Huston and Quentin Tarantino, along with past Honorary Award recipient Kirk Douglas, will be among the presenters at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ inaugural Governors Awards event on November 14, Academy President Tom Sherak announced today. The evening will feature presentations of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producer-executive John Calley, and Honorary Awards to actress Lauren Bacall, producer-director Roger Corman and cinematographer Gordon Willis.
Demme, Douglas, Huston and Tarantino will join 600 invited guests at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center® to celebrate the careers of Bacall, Calley, Corman and Willis, who each have made lasting contributions to the motion picture industry.
The black-tie dinner event will include film clips as well as remarks from the honorees, their colleagues and admirers.
The Honorary Award, an Oscar statuette, is given to an individual for “extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding service to the Academy.”
The Thalberg Award, a bust of the legendary motion picture executive, is given to “a creative producer whose body of work reflects a consistently high quality of motion picture production.”
The Governors Awards presentation is being produced for the Academy by Oscar-winning producer Bruce Cohen in association with Emmy®-winning producer Don Mischer.
Originally posted by seanflynn: And it still seems - unavailable for us to see unless they put it on their web site.
According to the Academy's Facebook site:
"It's going to be a wonderful night of celebration and recognition of amazing talent. Be sure to check back here on November 15th for video from the ceremony."
Tom Hanks and Annette Bening Join Governors Awards Lineup
Tom Hanks, Annette Bening and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel have joined the lineup of celebrities slated to participate in Saturday's Governors Awards, the new event at which the Academy will salute this year's four honorary Oscar winners.
The new names join previously announced participants Jonathan Demme, Kirk Douglas, Angelica Huston and Quentin Tarantino in paying tribute to honorary Oscar recipients Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman and Gordon Willis, and Irving Thalberg G. Memorial Award recipient John Calley.
In making the announcement this afternoon, the Academy also confirmed that those attending the show will include Maria Bello, Kathryn Bigelow, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Bridges, James Cameron, Abbie Cornish, Joe Dante, Dana Delany, Tom Ford, Dennis Hopper, Ron Howard, Vera Farmiga, Lawrence Kasdan, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Anna Kendrick, Virginia Madsen, Paula Patton, Ryan Phillippe, Gabourey Sidibe and Julie Taymor. Also expected to attend are a remarkable 40 of the Academy's 43 governors.
This list is far from completely; a number of other participants, including some of the evening's biggest names, are being kept secret. "We have the advantage of not needing to draw viewers to a television program, so we can keep a lot of names as surprises," show producer Bruce Cohen told theWrap this afternoon.
The Governors Awards will take place at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland this Saturday night. It will not be televised, though it will be filmed; footage will be provided to television and online outlets, and some will likely be shown on the Oscar telecast next March 7.
It doesn't sound like it - the article said it will be filmed and (presumably later) shown on-line.
They seem to really want to make this an intimate event without being distracted by a lot of live production, so my guess is we will see a few speeches and the presentation, but all edited. Maybe we'll get the clips they presumably show.
It is possible that they will be showing this online so John Calley can be part of it (if he's not too ill to watch), either at his home or in the hospital - I'm sure if they can, they would want to do this for him.
I just have to say - the idea that four Oscars are being handed out right at the moment to significant and interesting recipients and that it is only being seen by a few hundred people in the room is an insult to those of us who have followed both the Oscars and these people for many years.
Shame on the Academy. You are dumping on tradition, culture and history.
Very interesting - in his toast to Roger Corman, Ron Howard (one of many who directed his first film for him) made a big deal about how Corman hired many women in top production and directing roles, almost unheard of at that time - sort of sets the stage for at least one category this year (I know Kathryn Bigelow was there).
Looks like Anne Hathaway was Jonathan Demme's date.
If they showed clips, they aren't presented in the video on line. Not sure they did.
Kirk Douglas is clearly a life force. To go through a stroke like he did and still have so much vigor and desire to go public is possibly his greatest performance.
Hollywood Gets Honest at Governors Awards By MICHAEL CIEPLY
The first annual Governors Awards banquet, created to bestow career-oriented Oscars on the worthy without taking up time on the annual awards broadcast, was loving, lustrous and long.
Held in a giant banquet room near the Kodak Theater, where the regular Oscars will be handed out in March, honorary and career awards on Saturday night went to Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman, Gordon Willis and John Calley in a ceremony that clocked in at 3 hours and 18 minutes. That was only a little longer than the three hours considered ideal for a full-blown Academy Awards broadcast.
But something happened at the semi-private dinner — there was no television coverage, and a relatively modest press presence — that almost never happens on-air: Genuine things were said.
Possibly the most poignant of those was pronounced on a giant video screen by Mr. Calley, a storied executive and producer who could not attend to pick up his own Irving G. Thalberg award because of illness.
“You’re unhappy for a long period of time,” Mr. Calley said, in speaking of the executive’s life. “And you don’t experience joy. At the end, you experience relief, if you’re lucky.”
In an impressive display of industry might, Mr. Calley’s award was picked up by Steven Spielberg, a past Thalberg recipient, who was flanked by six others: Walter Mirisch, George Lucas, Saul Zaentz, Warren Beatty, Norman Jewison and Dino DeLaurentiis.
In keeping with the low-key, bittersweet mood, Mr. Beatty told the crowd he would skip telling his best anecdotes about virtually each and every one present, because he had realized, on reflection, that his stories were all “self-serving.”
Ms. Bacall, who reckoned that 60 years had passed since her screen debut as a 19-year-old, clutched the statuette and said she was happy just to have a “two-legged man” to take home again. Actually, she said, she was happy just to be alive. “Some of you are surprised, aren’t you?” she said.
Mr. Corman was feted by many whose careers he had started, among them Ron Howard and Jonathan Demme. In getting the evening started, Mr. Howard began with a toast to Mr. Corman, known for squeezing movies by the dozen out of underpaid talent in circumstances that were often less than ideal.
“You can’t help but get weary,” said Mr. Howard, setting a tone that carried through the evening, but in a good way. It was actually remarkable to hear Hollywood talking honestly about itself — something that will never happen when the cameras are on.
Ms. Bacall, who reckoned that 60 years had passed since her screen debut as a 19-year-old, clutched the statuette and said she was happy just to have a “two-legged man” to take home again. Actually, she said, she was happy just to be alive. “Some of you are surprised, aren’t you?” she said.
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She was feisty, no question - pretty much saying that she threw herself at Gregory Peck so much that his wife had to get inbetween, hinting that she understood she had burned some bridges.
Again, not sure if they edited anything, but strange that the one who mentioned her husband Jason Robards was Jonathan Demme (very funny story about Roger Corman) rather than Bacall, who talked a lot about Bogart.
