The Hollywood Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Tuesday, June 21, the artists who will be awarded the honorary Oscar of the Governors Awards in 2022: director Euzhan Palcy, composer Diane Warren, director Peter Weir and actor Michael J. Fox, who in his case will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. The Governor’s Awards These are prizes that the Academy’s board chooses every year, announces in the summer and delivers in the winter. This year the gala will take place on November 19 in Los Angeles.
In the statement released by the Academy, its president, David Rubin, explains that he chose these four names for theirs “indelible contributions to cinema and to the world in general”. In Fox’s case, his “Untiring Support for Parkinson’s Disease Research”as well as “his boundless optimism that exemplifies the impact one person has in changing the future of millions of people.” Fox became famous in “Family Entanglements”, but later came titles like “Back to the Future”, “Hearts of Iron” or “The President and Miss Wade” and series like “The Good Wife” or “Spin City. “. He has, among other awards, five Emmy Awards, four Golden Globes and a Grammy, has written four books and is the president of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, one of the most important in the world in the fight against this disease.
De Palcy says the note that it is “a pioneering director with great revolutionary importance in international cinema and in the history of cinema”. Palcy won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the César for Best First Feature with his first feature, ‘Sugar Cane Alley’, a real milestone for a black woman in 1983. Other titles of his filmography are “An arid white station”, “Siméon” and “Attica, the prison of death”. Even from behind the cameras, Weir’s work will be recognized, of which they underline it He is an important figure in the movement known as the New Wave of the 1970s. His name will sound familiar to you from having directed, among others, ‘Master and Commander: The Other Side of the World’, ‘The Truman Show’, ‘The Mosquito Coast’, ‘The Dead Poets Club’, ‘Sole Witness’ and “The Year We Lived Dangerously”. His work, says the Academy, “it reminds us of the power of cinema to reveal the full range of human experience.”
And in the music section
Warren, 65, has contributed music to more than 100 films and has been nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category 13 times. “Diane Warren’s music and lyrics have increased the emotional impact of countless films and inspired generations of musical artists.”, quote the statement. Among his most popular works stand out the main themes of ‘Life Ahead’ (with Laura Pausini), ‘Pearl Harbor’, ‘Music of the Heart’, ‘Armageddon’, ‘The Hunting Ground’ (with Lady Gaga), ‘Con Air (Convicts in the air) ‘and’ Maniquí ‘(together with Albert Hammond). He has also worked with artists such as Beyoncé, Cher, Céline Dion and Whitney Houston.
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Michael J FoxWe are thrilled to celebrate these artists at the Governors Awards on November 19, 2022. #Honorary Oscar https://t.co/LTagj1j0NU
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“Euzhan Palcy, Diane Warren, Peter Weir, Michael J. Fox. We are thrilled to celebrate these artists at the Governors Awards on November 19, 2022.”
The Honorary Award is awarded “To honor an extraordinary career award, exceptional contributions to the state of the cinematographic arts and sciences, or for exceptional service to the Academy “. The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is awarded “to an individual in the motion picture arts and sciences whose humanitarian efforts have been a source of pride for the industry”.
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