Stars and contenders came out in full force for the ceremony, which marked the return of awards season to its pre-pandemic level of glamour and frenzy.
“Wow, what a room! Who wouldn’t want to be here tonight?” Academy president Janet Yang said, opening the event.TV series, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1991. In 2000, he launched the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, and he is the subject of a documentary, now in production, from Oscar-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim.
“You guys are making me shake,” Fox quipped, after receiving a standing ovation while accepting his award. “This is so cool.” Fox joked about being “’80s famous,” quoted from Bruce Springsteen’s song “No Surrender” and spoke about his diagnosis with Parkinson’s at age 29. “The hardest part was grappling with the certainty of the diagnosis and the uncertainty of the situation,” he said. Fox referred to Parkinson’s as “the gift that keeps on taking.
Woody Harrelson delivered a funny, rambling and tender speech about Fox, his friend since the 1980s, mentioning everything from the time they drank cobra blood together to the fact that Fox has raised more than $1 billion for Parkinson’s research. “This guy was a master class in comedy,” Harrelson said, of the first time he saw Fox on“He turned a chilling diagnosis into a courageous mission. Michael J. Fox never asked for the role of Parkinson’s advocate, but it is his best performance.
Woody Harrelson congratulates Michael J. Fox, winner of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, onstage during the Governors AwardsMindy Kaling hosted the event, joking about its timing the Saturday before Thanksgiving, “a famously convenient and errand-free time.” Speaking about Palcy, Kaling referenced her filmHost Mindy Kaling speaks as honoree Michael J. Fox appears onscreenThe honorary Oscar speeches were alternately tender and witty.
Warren, 65, the first songwriter to earn an honorary Oscar, has been nominated for a competitive Oscar 13 times and never won, for such songs as “How Do I Live,” fromWhen Warren accepted her prize, she held her statuette to the sky. “Mom, I finally found a man,” Warren said. “I waited 34 years to say this: I’d like to thank the Academy.
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