If you’ve been wanting to see Angelina Jolie, Steve Martin and Angela Lansbury accept their honorary Oscars at the Governors’ Awards, help is at hand.
Watch Angelina Jolie, Steve Martin and Angela Lansbury accept their Oscars
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:38 am · November 19th, 2013
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Roundup: Should honorary Oscars return to the telecast?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:14 am · November 19th, 2013
In today’s roundup of notable online news and views, Mark Harris takes issue with the separation of honorary Oscars from the Academy Awards telecast, particularly in a year of such high-profile recipients. Also, Academy members experience doc overload, and a critic takes issue with character posters.
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Roundup: Bullock joins McConaughey on Palm Springs honor roll
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:55 am · November 18th, 2013
In today’s roundup of notable online news and views, Sandra Bullock receives a Desert Palm Achievement Award — usually presented to likely Oscar nominees — from the Palm Springs Film Festival. Also, what are 2013’s best undistributed films?
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2014 Oscar contenders work the room at the 2013 Governors Awards
Posted by Gregory Ellwood · 12:42 am · November 17th, 2013
A slew of potential nominees for the 86th Academy Awards attended the annual Governors Awards where voters were on hand to salute honorees Angelina Jolie, Angela Lansbury, Piero Tosi and Steve Martin.
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Angelina Jolie, Steve Martin toasted and roasted at 2013 Governors Awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:12 pm · November 16th, 2013
The Academy kicked off awards season in its own way Saturday night with the presentation of this year’s Honorary Oscars to Angelina Jolie, Steve Martin, Angela Lansbury and Piero Tosi at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood. Or, as Martin Short considers them, “The highest honor an actor can receive…in mid-November.”
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Oscar Talk: Venice/Telluride/Toronto wrap
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:12 am · September 20th, 2013
In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne discuss the just-wrapped early fall fest circuit. What landed at Venice, Telluride and Toronto and shows promise in the season? Also, this year’s Honorary Oscar recipients have been revealed.
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Angelina Jolie, Angela Lansbury, Steve Martin and Piero Tosi to receive Honorary Oscars
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:53 am · September 5th, 2013
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced this year’s Honorary Oscar recipients, to be presented at the fifth annual Governors Awards in November.
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Oscar Talk: Ep. 98 — Chewing on NYFCC, NBR and 'The Hobbit'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:00 am · December 7th, 2012
In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne discuss last weekend’s Governors Awards, the New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review winners and the Academy’s documentary shortlist.
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AMPAS honors Pennebaker, Stevens, Needham, Katzenberg at fourth annual Governors Awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:36 pm · December 1st, 2012
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored its own tonight in the fourth annual Governors Awards. A satellite ceremony dedicated to Honorary Oscar presentations (voted on by the AMPAS Board of Governors), the program was moved off the annual Academy Awards telecast in 2009 and given its own space in the middle of awards season.
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Honorary Oscars go to Katzenberg, Needham, Pennebaker and Stevens
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:13 pm · September 5th, 2012
Doris Day and Angela Lansbury, among others, passed over once again.
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Oscarweb Round-up: The year of the dog
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:28 am · November 14th, 2011
“The Artist” is looking an increasingly safe bet in any number of Oscar categories, but Best Supporting Actor isn’t one of them, and it’s all because Academy rules bar canine actors from competing. That’s a tough break for the film’s remarkable Jack Russell prodigy Uggy, who’s no less deserving than some past human nominees in […]
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The Academy celebrates Smith, Jones and Winfrey at third annual Governors Awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:37 pm · November 12th, 2011
The Academy has had a rough week. But that wasn’t going to stop the organization for toasting its Honorary Oscar recipients this evening at the third annual Governors Awards.
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Oscarweb Round-up: Oprah's honor
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:08 am · November 9th, 2011
In today’s round-up, Oprah Winfrey stands up for herself re: receiving the Academy’s humanitarian prize, Vanity Fair puffs up “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” with new pics from the set and Searchlight debuts a site for Steve McQueen’s “Shame.”
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AMPAS announces film series to celebrate the work of this year's Honorary Oscar recipients
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:38 am · October 28th, 2011
The Academy has put a new spin on the annual Governors Awards ceremony this year: a film series celebrating the work of the Honorary Oscar recipients. “The Exorcist,” “The Great White Hope” and “The Color Purple” will screen.
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