Belafonte and 3 icons receive honorary Oscars
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VETERAN actor-turned-activist Harry Belafonte received an honorary Oscar for his humanitarian work on Saturday, at a Hollywood gala which also paid tribute to three other cinematic icons.
Belafonte, 87, was given the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, while Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere and Irish actress Maureen O’Hara were given honorary awards.
“Artists are the radical voice of civilization,” Belafonte told the Governors Awards event in the Dolby Theatre, where the Oscars are held every year.
“I really wish I could be around for the rest of this century, to see what Hollywood does with the rest of the century. Maybe, just maybe, it could be civilization’s game changer,” he said.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also bestowed honorary lifetime awards on Miyazaki, Carriere and O’Hara.
Miyazaki, an artist, writer, director and producer, was nominated three times in the Academy’s animated feature category, which he won in 2002 for “Spirited Away.”
As a writer Carriere worked with iconic directors including Luis Bunuel, Volker Schloendorff, Jean-Luc Godard and Andrzej Wajda. He shared a screenwriting Oscar for the action short “Heureux Anniversaire” (“Happy Anniversary”) in 1962.
O’Hara starred in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1939) at the start of a long and wide-ranging career with films including drama “This Land Is Mine,” family classic “The Parent Trap” and spy comedy “Our Man in Havana.”
She was also in numerous westerns as a favorite of director John Ford.
When away from the spotlight, Belafonte campaigned for education, famine relief, children, AIDS awareness and civil rights.
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