Each year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences selects a small group of talented artists in the field of filmmaking to award Honorary Oscars. Considering the length of the standard Oscars broadcast, they thankfully dedicate a separate night to the ceremony with the Governors Awards. Held this past weekend, action icon Jackie Chan, legendary documentary director Frederick Wiseman, editor Anne V. Coates, and casting director Lynn Stalmaster all accepted their awards and we have the videos to prove it.
Each immensely deserving of their award, Chan’s contributions to cinema are ubiquitous across the world and one can’t imagine the documentary form would be the same without Wiseman’s work. From Lawrence of Arabia all the way up to last year’s Fifty Shades of Grey, Coates has an incredibly varied resume of editing work as on the greatest in her field. One can also thank Stalmaster for the indelible ensembles of Harold and Maude, The Right Stuff, The Graduate, In the Heart of the Night, Deliverance, and more.
Enjoy all of their acceptance speeches below, along with introductions from Jeff Bridges, Tom Hanks, Nicole Kidman, Chris Tucker, the Derns, and more.