Angela Lansbury, Angelina Jolie, Steve Martin to receive an Honorary Oscar!

[Will42]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 3:57pm

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present Honorary Awards to Angela Lansbury, Steve Martin and Piero Tosi, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Angelina Jolie. All four awards will be presented at the Academy’s 5th Annual Governors Awards on Saturday, November 16, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center®.

“The Governors Awards pay tribute to individuals who’ve made indelible contributions in their respective fields,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “We couldn’t be more excited for this year’s honorees and look forward to bringing their peers and colleagues together to celebrate their extraordinary achievements.”

Lansbury has received three Academy Award® nominations for her supporting performances on film – the first in her 1944 feature debut in “Gaslight,” followed by “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1945) and “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962). Her numerous other credits include “The Long, Hot Summer,” “Blue Hawaii,” “The World of Henry Orient,” “Bedknobs and Broomsticks,” “Death on the Nile” and “Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” as well as voice work for the first animated feature to receive a Best Picture nomination, “Beauty and the Beast.”

Martin, who got his start in television, is a versatile actor, writer, comedian and musician who began to display the breadth of his big-screen talent as the screenwriter and star of the 1977 Oscar®-nominated short film “The Absent-Minded Waiter.” He wrote and starred in “The Jerk,” “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid,” “Three Amigos,” “Roxanne,” “L.A. Story,” “The Pink Panther” series and “Shopgirl,” which he adapted from his critically acclaimed book of the same name. His other acting credits include “All of Me,” “Parenthood,” “Father of the Bride” and “It’s Complicated.” He also is a three-time host of the Oscars®, most recently in 2010 with Alec Baldwin.

Tosi rose to prominence through his collaborations with Italian director Luchino Visconti on such films as “White Nights” and “Rocco and His Brothers,” and continued to work with him on several other features, including the Costume Design nominees “The Leopard,” “Death in Venice” and “Ludwig.” Tosi received two more nominations for his designs for “La Cage aux Folles” and “La Traviata.” His other notable credits include “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,” a Foreign Language Film winner, and “Marriage Italian Style,” a Foreign Language Film nominee, both directed by Vittorio De Sica.

Jolie, who won an Oscar for her supporting performance in “Girl, Interrupted,” has been an impassioned advocate for humanitarian causes, traveling widely to promote organizations and social justice efforts such as the Prevent Sexual Violence Initiative. Staking out a career at the nexus of entertainment and philanthropy, Jolie has worked for a number of global advocacy groups including the Council on Foreign Relations and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), for which she was appointed Special Envoy of High Commissioner António Guterres in 2012 after twelve years of service. Her dedication to these causes has also shaped her work in films that tackle global humanitarian issues including “A Mighty Heart” and her feature film directorial debut “In the Land of Blood and Honey.”

The Honorary Award, an Oscar statuette, is given “to honor extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding service to the Academy.”

The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, also an Oscar statuette, is given “to an individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry.”

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[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 4:00pm

Good for Angela!!!!!! And also I'm extremely happy they're giving Jolie the Humanitarian Award. She's done so much good in this world in such a short amount of time.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 4:06pm

I'm actually happy for Steve Martin, too. For some reason he seems young for it, but that's just my reality check.

And Jolie has certainly been incredibly generous with her time and money in many humanitarian efforts. So that's cool. I'm wondering why Brad wasn't honored, too. Perhaps another year. And it's not like they're bookends.

But Angela? Yay!!!!!

[NYC4Life]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 4:06pm

I think these are great! Wish Cicely Tyson was included too. maybe next year. Jolie deserves the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. It would have been nice if they had included her partner Brad Pitt too. He has done incredible work as well. Especially building New Orleans back up. Bringing films like 12 Years A Slave and Curious Case Of Benjamin Button down there to help with the economy.

Updated On: 9/5/13 at 04:06 PM

[Will42]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 4:13pm

I can't believe Angela Lansbury finally got her due. Unlike Broadway, Hollywood has screw her over so many times in the past. She never got the film career her gigantic talent deserved and being the biggest Emmy Awards loser ever with 18 unsuccessful nominations is no fun either.

Angelina Jolie is very much deserving as well, considering all of her humanitarian efforts.
Piero Tosi, who has been nominated for 5 Oscars, but never won is a great choice as well.

Steve Martin, however, is a different story. He's way too young and there are plenty of more deserving actors who should get it before him.

[WhizzerMarvin]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 4:20pm

ANGELA!!!

I hope her award will be handed out on the telecast and we get to see her standing ovation and speech.

[tazber]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 4:22pm

Delighted for all 3 of them.

Angelina initially sticks out in that company but she definitely deserves it.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 4:39pm

They don't give these awards out on the telecast, unfortunately. These feel very appropriate. It's excellent Angela Lansbury will finally get one, it's unbelievable she never won.

[jnb9872]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 8:55pm

Steve Martin's tweet in response, in which he graciously stated was "a salute to comedy" helped put his Honorary Oscar in perspective for me. For so many reasons comedy gets overlooked in film awards, and I'm glad the Oscars occasionally takes steps to remedy that through the Honorary Award. Recently honoring Blake Edwards, Chuck Jones, and of course the great standing ovations for Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin back in the '70s are a small part of that effort. It would be great to see some other comic legends acknowledged, perhaps Monty Python or Neil Simon. Steve Martin is an excellent choice, however, as both a great comic and also a great writer/director throughout his career.

And, of course, Angela. What else can be said except she's a legend?

[darquegk]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 9:25pm

I agree- Steve Martin, as an actor/writer/director/musician/intellectual, is in a very small class of elite artists. It's him and Woody Allen, who has already been honored many times through his career, and is also a somewhat controversial public figure.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 9:26pm

Nice choices. Still, who does Max von Sydow have to &*() to get an oscar?

[Jay94]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 10:21pm

So happy about Angela finally getting her due.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 10:23pm

So Angela will be EGOT now?

[jnb9872]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 10:36pm

I believe the common standard for EGOT is no Honorary Awards.

[NoName3]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 10:50pm

^ Also, Lansbury has been nominated for the Emmy 18 times, but she has never won, even though she has been inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.

I'm thrilled to see the supremely talented and gracious Ms. Lansbury and the inestimable Mr. Tosi receive these long overdue awards.

Updated On: 9/5/13 at 10:50 PM

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 9/5/13 at 11:32pm

Lansbury is a legend and a class act; she definitely deserves this. Martin and Jolie are also terrific at what they do.

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 12:59am

I kind of wish they would make a special exception for Lansbury and present it during the telecast.

If wishes were fishes...

[nsguy45]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 1:43am

Both Doris Day and Debbie Reynolds are long overdue for recognition from the Academy.

[bobs3]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 8:52am

Interesting that they still haven't given Harrison Ford (age 71) a special award.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 9:20am

I believe the common standard for EGOT is no Honorary Awards.

Correct. It's for competitive categories only.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 9:24am

I don't think Angela has a Grammy either, does she?

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 9:26am

So she basically just has T.

Okay, yeah, five of them. A whole lotta T.

Updated On: 9/6/13 at 09:26 AM

[HorseTears]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 4:39pm

What wonderful news! And Will42, I'm eating crow here because I told you - in no uncertain terms - that this would never happen. I'm very glad to have to have been wrong. I also forgot that the honorary Oscars are voted on by the Board of Governors, not the whole academy. I would imagine that the BOG is perhaps a little more concerned with legacy and history than the entire academy body.

I'm so pleased for Ms. Lansbury. Correct me if I'm wrong, but although the recipients don't make speeches at the Oscar telecast, they do get to make an appearance and get acknowledged by the audience. And while it would be nice to have them give speeches on the telecast, the Governors Awards ceremony (or whatever it's called) does seem to allow a much more significant amount of time to honor the recipients. I assume that, as in prior years, the Academy will post the full video of that event on their YouTube page. I wonder who will speak to honor her. There are usually 2 or 3 people who do so, right? Unfortunately, most of her collaborators from the height of her film career in the 40s-60s, won't be with us anymore.

BTW, any reaction quotes from Lansbury?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 4:49pm

Love Lansburys flim work such as The Manchurian Candidate & Samson & Delilah .

See her as Pontius Pilate's (Telly Savalas ) wife in The Greatest Story Ever Told .It is classic..

Never got to see her in Mame but saw here in Dear World, Gypsy, & Deuce among others.

Updated On: 9/6/13 at 04:49 PM

[Will42]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 6:20pm

I think it will be one of two of the following:
Emma Thompson, Catherine Zeta-Jones or maybe even Mickey Rooney - one of few surviving co-stars from the classic Hollywood (plus it will be nice for Ms. Lansbury not to be the oldest person in the room).

Her The Best Man and Driving Miss Daisy co-star James Earl Jones (2011 Honorary Oscar recipient), would've definitely been there, but he's performing in Much Ado About Nothing with Vanessa Redgrave at the Old Vic until 30 November. He was doing Driving Miss Daisy, also opposite Redgrave in 2011 and had to miss his own tribute.