Coppola, Godard, Wallach and Brownlow getting honorary Oscars.
Brownlow is LONG overdue. Excellent. Maybe he can chat up Coppola into lightening up on NAPOLEON.
“Coppola is the producer of the classics “American Graffiti,” “Gardens of Stone,” “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” “Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein,” “The Outsiders,” and “Lost in Translation.” "
MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN a classic? Since fucking when?
lol I totally agree Roscoe. I’m really happy that Godard is FINALLY getting his due Oscar. I’m also stoked for Eli Wallach, I love that guy and he’s STILL acting which is great. I was a bit surprised about Coppola, it seems kind of early to get an honorary Oscar but I do think he definitely deserves it.
Uh-oh. Sooner or later this will turn into another installment of the Great MUBI Godard Debate.
Coppola is getting the Irving Thalberg Award, which George Lucas and Spielberg have each already gotten. Coppola hasn’t gotten his AFI Lifetime Award either, which Scorsese, Streisand, Spielberg and Eastwood and Hanks all got over the years.
Godard. Getting an honorary Oscar. I wonder if he’ll show up.
“Coppola, Godard, Wallach and Brownlow getting honorary Oscars.”
Who wants to play ping pong?
“Uh-oh. Sooner or later this will turn into another installment of the Great MUBI Godard Debate.”
Not if I can help it! Music please!
Godard would be quite a hypocrite to accept but he’ll likely enjoy the critical attention as usual.
He doesn’t deserve it thou.
They can’t show honorary awards for long term achievements. They have to free up the air time for bad comedy skits and fake-controversial rap songs with too much auto-tuning.
Godard recieving an oscar, that should be fun.
He won’t show up, I bet.
I’m not sure that he won’t show up. A lot of times when they hand out these awards it comes with a stipulation. I believe they offered one to Brando if he’d show up and not have someone collect it for him. Brando refused so they moved onto the next person on the list. If I’m not mistaken, he mentioned this in his interview with Larry King from the mid-90’s.
Maybe the Oscars has changed it’s policy? Who knows, but it’s fascinating either way.
Didn’t Gordon Willis spend his entire career talking crap about Hollywood? He seemed pretty honored when he got the award last year and it was actually a running gag from the people making speeches about him. They relayed some great phrases that he would say about Hollywood/awards over the course of his career.
godard’s position as a iconoclast is so well established i am positive that the oscar committee don’t expect him to turn up!
I’m predicting Godard will pull a Brando and have a Palestinian decline the award on his behalf.
Man, this is going to be interesting for sure.
He wouldn’t have to show up, he could send a filmed reply, which is what I imagine they found some agreement on with him. Didn’t they stop doing some of these honorary awards live anyway? If so, than a taped reply would pose no problem. I’d personally hope they agreed to a short film from him as a response, but that might be too much to hope for, but, god, it would be such a welcome change from that hack Chuck Workman’s usual mindless montages of obvious moments from the same old films they show every year.
In a way, it is a fitting end to Godard’s film career, if it is the end as has been rumored. He started off, and gained fame in large part because of his writing on Hollywood movies, and started his film career as a sort of response and reaction to the affection he felt for the movies from Hollywood of the forties. So, if he is at all nostalgic, or maintains some of those feelings, or just wants to connect the end to the beginning or comment on Hollywood since then, good or bad, this might be an interesting way to go. I certainly hope they’ve managed to agree to some terms where he will be given some airtime rather than it going to more bland best song medleys or something.
Edit: Whatever happens, if he does send a response, I wouldn’t be expecting him to thank the Academy for the “honor” though. Godard is far too cagy for that sort of banality I’d think.
They’re all worth it…
Coppola’s Thalberg award is LONG overdue! If only for having the stones to put out ONE FROM THE HEART
Eli Wallach is even longer overdue….performances for which he could have and should have AT LEAST been nominated :
The Misfits
Baby Doll
The Godfather III
The Magnificant Seven
Brownlow restoration work on Napoleon alone warrants it
Godard…certainly his direction of Contempt, Pierrot le fou and Weekend should have recieved recognition. Who knows if he’ll show up….It’s an honor even this late in the game…I only hope they get Jane Fonda to present it(!)
BTW….they’re all worth it, but…what about….AND STILL LIVING!!!
Max von Sydow
Doris Day
Jean Louis Trintignant
Mia Farrow
Monica Vitti
Donald Sutherland
Albert Finney
Alain Resnais
Martin Sheen
Alberto Grimaldi
Paul Mazursky
Gene Rowlands
and so on…
I won’t be satisfied until Peter Gallagher has his Oscar.
Godard should show up because I’m sure he will have a good number of things to say _
wow, I’d like to see Godard accept the Oscar as well. should be interesting
so happy that Eli Wallach has been [finally] recognized by the academy, great great actor
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i7666b0f98579502144424d953aeda6c2
“Where is Jean-Luc Godard when you need him?
The motion picture Academy has spent almost 24 frantic hours trying to reach the iconoclastic filmmaker (“Breathless”) to inform him he’s getting an honorary Oscar — and by late Wednesday they still hadn’t been able to find him.
Godard, a Swiss citizen born in Paris, is notoriously anti-Hollywood. He’s also anti-flying and has avoided long plane flights, one insider said, because he’s not allowed to smoke.
This means Godard, 79, could be one of the rare no-shows for an honorary award. Audrey Hepburn died in 1993 before her prize could be presented.
“We’ve been attempting to reach him since 7 o’clock Tuesday evening and we have as yet had no confirmation,” Bruce Davis, the Academy’s executive director, said late Wednesday afternoon. “We have tried by telephone, by fax, by emails to various friends and associates. We have sent a formal letter by FedEx. But we have certainly not been told he will show up at this point.”
Davis said that possibility played no factor when the Academy’s board determined recipients of the honorary Oscars, which will be presented in November at the second annual Governors Awards. Other recipients will be Eli Wallach, Francis Ford Coppola and Kevin Brownlow.
The Americans were informed Tuesday night. Brownlow was awoken in London by a call from Academy president Tom Sherak.
“They were all thrilled, Mr. Brownlow especially,” Davis said of the silent film historian. “He had no idea why the president of the Academy had reached him in the middle of the night.”
Presumably, at this point, Godard has no idea either."
lol
Really awesome Brownlow is getting one.
“BTW….they’re all worth it, but…what about….AND STILL LIVING!!!”
“Doris Day”
“Mia Farrow”
Please Dimitris, ignore some of those examples from that list above and maintain your absence from this thread on “who” deserves it or whatever shit is being talked about “Honorary Oscars” and such.
Good on the Academy for recognizing Godard. Never thought it would happen.
If all of us true cinephiles were expecting the Academy to “honor” legends, hidden or not, then i guess we all live in an Americanized, Christianized and Democratically Dominant world after all…
It’s a shame that they’re doing this in Novemeber, as these tend to be the highlights of the ceremony for me. I hope they’re televised in some form.
I believe they post most if not all of the ceremony online in the Oscar website.
I’m interested in reading up on Godard’s life and career in film but have struggled to find anything that looks worthwhile. Does anyone have any recommendations? Either academic or biographical.
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http://www.indiewire.com/article/2010/08/25/academy_governors_honor_coppola_godard_wallach_and_brownlow/
I can’t wait to see Jean-Luc Godard receive his honorary oscar. It’s too bad they no longer air those on the big show. If he does show up for the ceremony, I can see a very interesting speech happening. Francis Ford Coppola, Eli Wallach and Kevin Brownlow are also being honored. Discuss.