The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday night (August 30) to present Honorary
Awards to actor Jackie Chan, film editor Anne V. Coates, casting director Lynn
Stalmaster and documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman.
The four Oscar® statuettes will be presented at the
Academy’s 8th Annual Governors Awards on Saturday, November 12, at the Ray
Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center®.
"The Honorary Award was created for artists like
Jackie Chan, Anne Coates, Lynn Stalmaster and Frederick Wiseman – true pioneers
and legends in their crafts," said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. "The
Board is proud to honor their extraordinary achievements, and we look forward
to celebrating with them at the Governors Awards in November."
After making his motion picture debut at the age of
eight, Chan brought his childhood training with the Peking Opera to a distinctive
international career. He starred in – and sometimes wrote, directed and
produced – more than 30 martial arts features in his native Hong Kong, charming
audiences with his dazzling athleticism, inventive stunt work and boundless
charisma. Since "Rumble in the Bronx" in 1996, he has gone on
to enormous worldwide success with the "Rush Hour" movies, "Shanghai
Noon," "Shanghai Knights," "Around the World in 80 Days,"
"The Karate Kid" and the "Kung Fu Panda" series of animated
films.
A native of Reigate, England, Coates worked her way up
to lead editor on a handful of features before collaborating with David Lean on
"Lawrence of Arabia" and winning her first Oscar. In her more
than 60 years as a film editor, she has worked side by side with many leading
directors on an impressive range of films, including Sidney Lumet ("Murder
on the Orient Express"), Richard Attenborough ("Chaplin") and
Steven Soderbergh ("Erin Brockovich"). She also earned four
additional Oscar nominations, for "Becket," "The Elephant Man,"
"In the Line of Fire" and "Out of Sight."
Stalmaster, a one-time stage and screen actor from
Omaha, Nebraska, began working in casting in the mid-1950s. Over the next
five decades, he applied his talents to more than 200 feature films, including such
classics as "Inherit the Wind," "In the Heat of the Night,"
"The Graduate," "Fiddler on the Roof," "Harold and
Maude," "Deliverance," "Coming Home," "Tootsie"
and "The Right Stuff." He has enjoyed multiple collaborations
with directors Stanley Kramer, Robert Wise, Hal Ashby, Norman Jewison and
Sydney Pollack, and has been instrumental in the careers of such celebrated
actors as Jon Voight, Richard Dreyfuss, Scott Wilson, Jill Clayburgh,
Christopher Reeve and John Travolta.
From his home base in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Wiseman has made one film almost every year since 1967, illuminating lives in
the context of social, cultural and government institutions. He created a
sensation with his first documentary feature, "Titicut Follies,"
which went behind the scenes at Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally
insane. The film established an unobtrusive, observational storytelling
style that has strongly identified his work, from the gritty ("Law and
Order," "Public Housing," "Domestic Violence") to the
uplifting ("La Danse – The Paris Opera Ballet," "National
Gallery," "In Jackson Heights").
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."
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