Just months after Angela Bassett came so close to winning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, she won an honorary Oscar at this year’s Film Academy’s Governors Awards. Become one of the people. Published by Arts and Sciences. Director Mel Brooks and editor Carol Lyttelton will also receive prestigious Oscars, and Sundance’s Michelle Sutter will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
Academy President Janet Yang said in a statement that the award “hones four trailblazers who have transformed the film industry and inspired generations of filmmakers and moviegoers.” .
Bassett, 64, was nominated for her first role as Tina Turner in the biopic What’s Love Got to Do With It and has starred in How Stella Gets Back, Malcolm X and Boys and the Hood. He also appeared in films such as Despite winning a Golden Globe earlier this year for Wakanda Forever and losing the Oscar to Jamie Lee Curtis for her role in Everything Everywhere All at Once, Bassett She is one of only four black actresses still to win the award. She has been nominated multiple times for an Oscar Award for acting.
Brooks, who turns 97 this week, is one of the rare Oscar winners to receive this honor, having won Best Original Screenplay for his 1969 debut, The Producers. Brooks went on to become one of Hollywood’s most celebrated comic book directors, producing beloved films like Young He’s Frankenstein, Blazing His Saddle, and much more. He is one of 18 people in show business to reach competitive EGOT status after adding Grammys, Emmys and Tonys to the Oscars on the awards shelf.
Sutter, the founding senior director of the Sundance Institute’s artist program, is the director of Wes Anderson’s “Bottle Rocket,” Darren Aronofsky’s “Requiem for a Dream,” and Miranda July’s “Me.” has spent 40 years training independent filmmakers in the early stages of their careers, with projects such as And You and Everyone We Know” and Ryan Coogler’s “Fruitvale Station” were all developed in Sutter’s Sundance Labs.
Lyttelton was nominated for an Oscar for editing Steven Spielberg’s E.T. Beloved”). and its remakes “The Manchurian Candidate” and “Charlie’s Truth”).
Although these prestigious awards are not televised, they remain one of the most star-studded events of awards season. This year, it’s scheduled for his November 18th, and will not only announce the winners, but will also provide a chance to chat with a packed ballroom. Oscar voter. Expect emotional speeches from this season’s most promising candidates. All of them captivate the crowd at every intermission.
