Roger Corman, Lauren Bacall and Gordon Willis received Honorary Oscars at the 2009 Governors Awards last night in Hollywood. Producer John Calley, absent due to health reasons, was given the Irving J. Thalberg Memorial Award.
The awards were moved out of the regular show but there was no shortage of star power with Kirk Douglas, Tom Hanks, Jack Nicholson, Annette Bening, Morgan Freeman, Steven Spielberg, Warren Beatty, Norman Jewison, Quentin Tarantino, Ron Howard and Anjelica Huston among the 600 guests.
The Associated Press reports guests drank champagne and dined on filet mignon as each honoree was celebrated with tributes, toasts and a generous montage of film clips - leisurely elements not possible in previous years when special-Oscar presentations were built into the already-crowded Oscar broadcast.
Excerpts will be shown on the March 7 telecast. Above photo by Richard Harbaugh, A.M.P.A.S.
Posted
Nov 15 2009, 01:27 PM
by
Barbara Vancheri