Godard hates the Oscars and the academy propably hates him. I don’t see this happening.
Even Godard, however I personally fell about his work, doesn’t deserve such an insult.
What has he said about the oscars?
well they’ve already insulted Felini, Kurosawa, and Antonioni
Don’t remember. It was something about plane wrecks and that the one that wrecked the plane most horribly would win.
BTW, doesn’t Woody Allen also hate the oscars while holding the record for most screenplay nominations.
He would reject it anyhow.
who woody or Godard?
Godard. If you’ve seen his films, you would know how much contempt he has for the studio system in America today.
Woody slams awards shows in general in “Annie Hall” with a line about an award show giving Benito Mussolini an award for best fascist dictator. For years he said he’d rather be playing clarinet in a house band In New York, but he showed up a few years back to present a montage segment.
As for Godard, snowball’s chance in hell that’ll happen. They don’t want to give it to him and he wouldn’t accept it.
>well they’ve already insulted Felini, Kurosawa, and Antonioni
And domestically let’s not ever forget Chaplin, Welles, and Scorcese (whose win for The Departed was too little, too late).
i suppose domestically means U.S., so Chaplin doesn’t count for he’s from England ;)
To be honest, I could do without “honorary” awards from the Academy, which seem mostly about the Academy assuaging its own shortsightedness.
No, Dimitris – Chaplin worked in Hollywood and made American films. He’s as prototypically American a filmmaker as e.g. Tom Stoppard (né Tomáš Straussler) is a through-and-through British playwright.
Matt – yes, mostly. One exception was Kazan – he got his friend Karl Malden to give him one last chance to validate his actions during the HUAC/McCarthy era, validation Kazan had been seeking since at least “On the Waterfront”.
Sometimes, AMPAS assuaging its shortsightedness leads to something special: the Chaplin honorary award transcended the moment and was much more moving than these things usually are.
Woody hates the competition of unlike films. He would pick up a lifetime achievement Oscar as he has picked up tons of other like awards. Him and Godard both deserve one but so do most of those that get them.
Don’t get me started on Kazan, Tom.
You’re right, though, there are occasionally exception, I just wish that they would be given out more judiciously. I certainly hope three in one year is not going to become the norm.
-they’ve already insulted Felini, Kurosawa, and Antonioni-
. . . also Renoir, Satyajit Ray, and Wadja.
Matt – don’t worry, I could pretty seriously get started on Kazan too. ;-)
I think you’re right, too – three in one year is probably two too many.
Woody Allen does hate the Academy awards. And they are just insulting. Here’s what wikepedia says-
Despite friendly recognition from the Academy, Allen has consistently refused to attend the ceremony or acknowledge his Oscar wins. He broke this pattern only once. At the Academy Awards ceremony in 2002, Allen made an unannounced appearance, making a plea for producers to continue filming their movies in New York City after the 9-11 attacks, where he stated “I didn’t have to present anything. I didn’t have to accept anything. I just had to talk about New York City.”38 He was given a standing ovation before introducing a montage of movie clips featuring New York.
I can’t see a man whom finds traces of Nazism in the modern Hollywood system to accept an award from them. Then again, he could twist the situation with his usual sense of wit. The thing is, Spielberg is more than likely aware of In Praise of Love’s proclamations, and is quivering in his boots that a long forgotten French director still understands the overlooked truths in Hollywood cinema just as well as he did in the 1950’s.
All politics aside it could be a win-win situation, and I think it wouldn’t hurt the millons of people watching to know who JLG is.
If one accepts the premise of the Academy Awards and specifically the Honorary Award category, then J-LG is highly worthy of such an honor, no matter how he feels about the subject. Brando and George C. Scott refused their Oscars and Sartre refused the Nobel Prize, but their names are in the “record books” as winners nonetheless. Of course, it’s usually the LITERAL kiss of death because several honorees died shortly after winning. Satyajit Ray was on his hospital bed when they presented him with the statuette!
But, as a few posters have mentioned, it often helps to have a well-placed friend or supporter like Karl Malden in the Academy to push your nomination. Antonioni was probably nominated by Coppola and Bertolucci, who had just won Best Picture for THE LAST EMPEROR. And J-LG may not have any friends left in the U.S. Of course, if Trauffaut had lived a few years beyond receiving HIS Honorary Oscar…
I think Godard truly doesn’t care about such honors. But he knows old Hollywood movies better than 99% of the Academy’s members.
“If movie-makers were building airplanes, there would be an accident every time one took off. But in the movies, these accidents are called Oscars.” JLG
Bergman wasn’t a fan:
“I’ve never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a fucking bore. He’s made his films for the critics. One of the movies, Masculin, féminin, was shot here in Sweden. It was mindnumbingly boring.”
“and I think it wouldn’t hurt the millons of people watching to know who JLG is.”
thing is…they WILL make a big fuss of who Godard is….they didn’t when they rewarded Ray….Godard is still selling more than Ray and Godard with or without a fuckin’ Academy award is still a winner for the art-house crowd
(because the general consensus doesn’t even know the basics, sorry…refuses to know)
“Of course, it’s usually the LITERAL kiss of death because several honorees died shortly after winning”
is this some kind of self-congratulatory declaration of certain people towards specific directors? because i don’t see much variety on this thread as well……
-it often helps to have a well-placed friend or supporter like Karl Malden in the Academy to push your nomination-
Absolutely, and not just Malden, but Scorsese and Deniro too.
-Bergman wasn’t a fan-
Bergman wasn’t a fan of anything.
To Frank P. Tomasul: There’s one slight flaw in your logic about if “Trauffaut had lived a few years beyond receiving HIS Honorary Oscar”, and that is that, from the late 60s onward, Godard and Truffaut pretty much hated each other, despite their close relationship in earlier years.
As for Godard winning an Honorary Oscar: Considering Godard’s overall persona, I can think of no great slap to the face than to award him an Oscar of any sorts. And honestly, I don’t think I’d lose any sleep if Godard (who is, mind you, in my Top 3 favorite directors, and probably always will be as he has been, and continues to be, a massive influence on me) never won an Oscar because, honestly, in the long run, award shows don’t really matter. All they do if give you a chuck a metal that would probably be put to better use as a dildo than anything else, not to mention it does little to sort out what the real quality in the filmmaking world is (with a few exceptions, naturally).
Bergman wasn’t a fan of anything.
He was a fan of Hitler.
Charlesdegaulle
I’d say so