Diane Warren will receive an honorary award from the Motion Picture Academy
“The Academy’s Board of Governors is honored to recognize four individuals who have made indelible contributions to cinema and the world at large,” Academy president David Rubin said in a statement. “Michael J. Fox’s tireless advocacy of research on Parkinson’s disease alongside his boundless optimism exemplifies the impact of one person in changing the future for millions.
Warren is one of only nine songwriters in Oscar history to amass 13 or more nominations. But she’s also the only one of those nine songwriters who has yet to win. This honorary award won’t count as a competitive Oscar, though it’s a lovely tribute. And it may be the precursor to a competitive award. Morricone won an honorary award in 2006, when his Oscar track record for best original score stood at 0-5.
Like Warren, Weir has been a perennial Oscar bridesmaid. He has gone 0-6 at the awards, despite four nominations for directing, one for writing and one for best picture. While Fox has never had a hit on the Billboard Hot 100, a song from a box-office smash in which he starred, and the TV show in which he rose to fame, both reached No. 1. Those songs were
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