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\u00ae statuettes will be presented at the Academy\u2019s 8th Annual Governors Awards on Saturday, November 12, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center\u00ae.
\n\u201cThe Honorary Award was created for artists like Jackie Chan, Anne Coates, Lynn Stalmaster and Frederick Wiseman \u2013 true pioneers and legends in their crafts,\u201d said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. \u201cThe Board is proud to honor their extraordinary achievements, and we look forward to celebrating with them at the Governors Awards in November.\u201d<\/p>\n
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 \u2013 and sometimes wrote, directed and produced \u2013 more than 30 martial arts features in his native Hong Kong, charming audiences with his dazzling athleticism, inventive stunt work and boundless charisma. Since \u201cRumble in the Bronx\u201d in 1996, he has gone on to enormous worldwide success with the \u201cRush Hour\u201d movies, \u201cShanghai Noon,\u201d \u201cShanghai Knights,\u201d \u201cAround the World in 80 Days,\u201d \u201cThe Karate Kid\u201d and the \u201cKung Fu Panda\u201d series of animated films.<\/p>\n
A native of Reigate, England, Coates worked her way up to lead editor on a handful of features before collaborating with David Lean on \u201cLawrence of Arabia\u201d 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 (\u201cMurder on the Orient Express\u201d), Richard Attenborough (\u201cChaplin\u201d) and Steven Soderbergh (\u201cErin Brockovich\u201d). She also earned four additional Oscar nominations, for \u201cBecket,\u201d \u201cThe Elephant Man,\u201d \u201cIn the Line of Fire\u201d and \u201cOut of Sight.\u201d
\nStalmaster, 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 \u201cInherit the Wind,\u201d \u201cIn the Heat of the Night,\u201d \u201cThe Graduate,\u201d \u201cFiddler on the Roof,\u201d \u201cHarold and Maude,\u201d \u201cDeliverance,\u201d \u201cComing Home,\u201d \u201cTootsie\u201d and \u201cThe Right Stuff.\u201d 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.
\nFrom 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, \u201cTiticut Follies,\u201d 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 (\u201cLaw and Order,\u201d \u201cPublic Housing,\u201d \u201cDomestic Violence\u201d) to the uplifting (\u201cLa Danse \u2013 The Paris Opera Ballet,\u201d \u201cNational Gallery,\u201d \u201cIn Jackson Heights\u201d).
\nThe Honorary Award, an Oscar statuette, is given \u201cto honor extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding service to the Academy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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