Francis Ford Coppola, Jean-Luc Godard to receive honorary Oscars
By ANIThursday, August 26, 2010
LONDON - The Governor’s Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will go to directors Francis Ford Coppola and Jean-Luc Godard, actor Eli Wallach and historian Kevin Brownlow this year.
Coppola will receive the Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award, the academy said, with Godard, Wallach and Brownlow receiving honorary Oscars. The prizes will be given at a dinner Nov. 13.
Coppola, the 71-year-old director of the Godfather trilogy, is already a five-time Oscar winner, reports the Mirror.
Godard, 79, is a key figure in the French New Wave who wrote about films before making shorts of his own. His 1960 feature debut, the crime drama Breathless, is a hugely influential example of the movement.
Wallach, 94, is a character actor who has appeared in The Magnificent Seven, The Misfits and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Brownlow, 72, an author and documentarian, is considered the pre-eminent historian of the silent film era and a preservationist.
The Thalberg award, which is a bust of the film executive, goes to “a creative producer whose body of work reflects a consistently high quality of motion picture production”, according to the academy.
Honorary Oscars are given for “extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding service to the academy”. (ANI)
