First Oscars Of The Season Handed Out At 14th Governors Awards: Mel Brooks, Angela Bassett, Carol Littleton, Michelle Satter
deadline.comThe Governors Awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is always one of the annual Hollywood nights I look forward to, one that delivers Honorary Oscars in a non-televised but always warm, fun, and inspiring evening.
I have attended every single one of them, and even wrote the 2nd Governors Awards, but I have to say Tuesday night’s 14th annual ceremony had an extra personal and devastatingly heartfelt kick to it, quite unforseen when the Academy’s Board Of Governors announced their honorees -97 year old Mel Brooks, Film Editor Carol Littleton, Angela Bassett, and Sundance Institute’s Michelle Satter – way back on June 26.
The ceremony as it usually is, was set for a mid November date, the 18th but due to the unpredictability of the writers and actors strikes was moved to January 9, Sadly life intervened in the meantime.
Littleton’s husband and former AMPAS President, cinematographer John Bailey passed away on November 10, just a week before the event was originally to have taken place.
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