Filmmaker Lumet to Receive Honorary Oscar
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LOS ANGELES  - Veteran director Sidney  Lumet, who picked up five Oscar nominations but never took home  a prize, will receive an honorary statuette at the 77th annual  Academy Awards on Feb. 27, organizers said Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - Three months after the death of Robert Altman at age 81, several tributes have been announced for the maverick director.
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Martin Scorsese is among the contenders to win the Director's Guild of America award in Los Angeles
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From Wes Anderson to Sidney Lumet, this year's New York Film Festival is dominated by top American directors spanning generations.
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NEW YORK  - It was a tribute even the irascible Robert Altman would have loved.
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LOS ANGELES  - Production designer Robert Boyle will receive an honorary Oscar during the Academy Awards ceremony on February 24, organizers said Wednesday.
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Sidney Lumet, the acclaimed American film-maker who directed 12 Angry Men and Dog Day Afternoon, is finally getting an Oscar. In almost 50 years the 80-year-old director
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French actor Gerard Depardieu will be  honored at this year&#39;s tribute of the Film Society of the  Lincoln Center which recognizes the extraordinary career of a  distinguished film artist each year.
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All those dog day afternoons have paid off for Sidney Lumet.
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EARLIER this month it was announced that veteran director Sidney Lumet was to receive the 2005 honorary Oscar. Now 80, Lumetâs distinguished career includes such classics as Twelve Angry Men, The Pawnbroker, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon and Network.
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Italian composer Ennio Morricone is to receive an honorary Oscar at the Academy Award ceremony in February.
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Most directors do not go on to make one of their best films after receiving their lifetime achievement Oscars. But most directors do not have the stamina of Sidney Lumet.
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NEW YORK  - It has been almost a year since Robert Altman stood on the stage of the Kodak Theater on March 5 to receive his long-overdue honorary Academy Award.
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Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily December 2, 2004 - NEW YORK - The intellectual edge of Hollywood may be shrinking, but it still produces capable and generous friends - mostly in the form of scrappers who made it, like the very talented Jim Carrey. Carrey looked vital and energized as he entered the Gotham Awards 14th Annual Gala at Pier 60 of New York's Chelsea Piers. The movie that brought Carrey to the event, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," wowed critics and enfolded Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo and Elijah Wood into the independent realm.
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Fred Koenekamp, who lensed "Patton," "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," "Papillon" and "The Towering Inferno," will receive the American Society of Cinematographers' lifetime achievement award.
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Actor Karl Malden, who won an Oscar for his performance in the 1951 film "A Streetcar Named Desire," on Thursday received the Monte Cristo Award for his lifetime of stage work.
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Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger is to present an Academy Award at this year's ceremony.