Academy Honorary Award
The Academy Honorary Award, instituted in 1948 for the 21st
Academy Awards (previously called the Special Award), is given by the
discretion of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences (AMPAS) to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered
by existing Academy Awards, although prior winners of competitive Academy
Awards are not excluded from receiving the Honorary Award. Unless otherwise
specified, Honorary Award recipients receive the same gold Oscar statuettes
received by winners of the competitive Academy Awards. Unlike the Special
Achievement Award instituted in 1972, those on whom the Academy confers its
Honorary Award do not have to meet "the Academy's eligibility year and
deadline requirements." Like the Special Achievement Award, the Special
Award and Honorary Award have been used to reward significant achievements of
the year that did not fit in existing categories, subsequently leading the
Academy to establish several new categories, and to honor exceptional career
achievements, contributions to the motion picture industry, and service to the
Academy.
All three Hollywood movies have an Indian connection and are
frontrunners for winning the Academy Award for Best Picture for 2013
The 85th Oscar Awards nominations list was declared
yesterday, and three films with an Indian connect have been selected. Steven
Spielberg’s presidential drama Lincoln, produced by Reliance DreamWorks, is the
frontrunner for the Academy Awards with 12 citations, while Ang Lee’s Life of
Pi starring Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan and Tabu follows close behind with 11
nominations, it was announced early Thursday. Bradley Cooper’s Silver Linings
Playbook that also stars Bollywood’s Anupam Kher has received eight
nominations.
Lincoln, which is also leading the nomination pack at the
Golden Globe awards, the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the British Academy of
Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards this year, is a biopic on US president
Abraham Lincoln’s struggles during the Civil War. The movie has been nominated
across categories including best picture, best actor (Daniel Day-Lewis),
writing – adapted screenplay, actress in a supporting role (Sally Field), actor
in a supporting role (Tommy Lee Jones), directing (Steven Spielberg), costume
design, cinematography, film editing, music – original score, production design
and sound mixing.
Life of Pi, a fantasy adventure drama, widely shot in India,
is the adaptation of Canadian author Yann Martel’s Man Booker Prize-winning
eponymous novel. It narrates the journey of an Indian boy who survives a storm.
Some key categories in which the movie has been nominated are best picture,
cinematography and directing.
A total of nine films are competing in the best picture
category. These are Amour, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained,
Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook and Zero Dark
Thirty.
The talents vying for the best actor trophy include names
like Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook), Hugh Jackman (Les Miserables),
Joaquin Phoenix (The Master) and Denzel Washington (Flight), apart from
Day-Lewis for Lincoln.
Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty), Jennifer Lawrence
(Silver Linings Playbook), Emmanuelle Riva (Amour), Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts
of the Southern Wild) and Naomi Watts (The Impossible) are in the run for the
best actress title.
Apart from Spielberg for Lincoln, other nominations in the
best director category are Michael Haneke (Amour), Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the
Southern Wild), Ang Lee (Life of Pi) and David O Russell (Silver Linings
Playbook).
The foreign language films nominated for the golden statuette
include Amour (Austria), Kon-Tiki (Norway), No (Chile), A Royal Affair
(Denmark) and War Witch (Canada).
Overall, romantic comedy-drama Silver Linings Playbook is
third on the list of top-scorers in the Oscar nomination list with eight nods,
while political thriller Argo and musical Les Miserables are in a tie with
seven citations each.
Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty and Quentin Tarantino’s
Django Unchained too are in a tie with five nominations each to their credit.
Bond film Skyfall has four nods.
The Oscar presentation ceremony will be held February 24 in
Hollywood’s Dolby Theater.
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