Quincy Jones had already written his speech to just accept an honorary Oscar this 12 months on the movement image academy’s annual Governors Awards.
However he died two weeks earlier than Sunday’s ceremony, so it was left to his daughter Rashida Jones to ship his phrases.
“He has so many friends in this room — well, actually, probably in every room, if I’m being honest,” Jones mentioned, standing on stage with three of her siblings. Studying her father’s speech, which traced his goals of making music for movie and to make “society and the world a more understanding and embracing place for us all to exist,” Jones was typically overcome with emotion.
“In some ways, it was a difficult decision for our family to be here tonight, but we felt like we wanted to celebrate his beautiful life and career,” she mentioned, following a presentation that included an introduction from Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Hudson main a dozen gospel singers. “He imbued love into every single second of music he made. That was his real legacy.”
Jennifer Hudson performs on the 2024 Governors Awards.
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It was probably the most emotionally charged second in the course of the Governors Awards ceremony, a night that presents the honorary Oscars that have been as soon as a part of the televised Academy Awards and likewise serves as a marketing campaign cease for contenders making an attempt to seize what publicists name “face time” with academy voters.
On the latter entrance, the studios and streamers behind such high-profile awards season contenders as “Anora,” “The Substance” and “Emilia Pérez” ponied up $1,000 per ticket to attend the ceremony.
Jones, one of the vital influential forces in trendy American music, earned seven Oscar nominations in his prolonged profession, principally for his work on scores and songs, although he additionally picked up a nod as a producer of Steven Spielberg’s 1985 adaptation of “The Color Purple.” Jones acquired the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1995, making this his second honorary Oscar.
“Nickel Boys” actor Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor was among the many Oscar contenders in attendance on the 2024 Governors Awards.
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Richard Curtis, who wrote the beloved romantic-comedies “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “Noting Hill,” co-wrote the primary “Bridget Jones’s Diary” and wrote and directed the polarizing “Love Actually,” a film that has turn out to be a vacation perennial, gained the Hersholt award this 12 months.
The academy saluted Curtis or his tireless charitable work as a co-founder of Comedian Reduction, a producer of Crimson Nostril Day and for his efforts to finish world poverty by means of teams like Make Poverty Historical past.
Hugh Grant, who starred in “Four Weddings,” “Notting Hill” and “Love Actually,” launched Curtis, utilizing his dry wit to recall the start of their artistic partnership in “Four Weddings.”
“I went to the audition, and frankly, I was rather good, and it was lovely because the director, Mike Newell, liked me and wanted me, and the producer liked me and wanted me, and the money people wanted me. The only person who didn’t want me, and in fact, took such an instant and violent dislike to me that he did everything in his power to stop me from getting the part, was the writer. And it is this ass— who we honor tonight,” Grant mentioned.
Hugh Grant, onstage, presents Richard Curtis, onscreen, along with his honorary Oscar.
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“Would we call it an Oscar?” Grant mused, wrapping up his speech. “It’s a kind of Oscar. It’s a better-than-nothing Oscar.” Addressing Curtis, Grant added that he hoped they’d work collectively yet one more time, maybe on “Four Funerals and a Wedding.”
Accepting the award, Curtis good-naturedly returned the feelings of Grant’s introduction.
“I was so intrigued how Hugh was going to turn his infamously unsatisfactory character in order to present me with this prize, and he did nothing,” Curtis mentioned. “He’s never been able to act much and it would probably be beyond his scope.”
He inspired anybody within the viewers who has been unhappy the previous couple of weeks to maintain on believing. Noting that folks typically assume his films are glued collectively by pop songs, Curtis cited Queen and David Bowie’s collaboration “Under Pressure,” saying that “in dark times, the catalyst that will ultimately make the difference to most people will not be violence, will not be aggression, but love.”
Nicole Kidman embraces honoree Juliet Taylor on the Governors Awards.
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Casting director Juliet Taylor acquired an honorary Oscar for a profession spanning 5 many years. Taylor obtained her begin on “The Exorcist,” discovering Linda Blair. Proudly owning greater than 100 credit, she solid Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Schindler’s List,” Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver,” James L. Brooks’ “Terms of Endearment,” Nora Ephron’s “Sleepless in Seattle” and 43 movies for Woody Allen, together with the Oscar-winning greatest image “Annie Hall.”
She cited Allen because the “director who really changed my life with his loyalty and his support.”
“Working with him was a casting director’s dream because he was so open and so humble,” Taylor mentioned, accepting the Oscar following a speech from Nicole Kidman. “I could feel free to throw out the most outlandish ideas, and Woody would just raise his eyebrows and go, ‘Uh-huh.’ And if he had an idea that I didn’t like, I could say, ‘Oh, Woody, that’s a terrible idea.’ And he would just laugh.”
Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond movies, settle for an honorary Oscar from the newest actor to tackle the function, Daniel Craig.
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James Bond collection producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael J. Wilson acquired the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, celebrating the work of producers. The duo, half-siblings, have produced 9 Bond movies, starting with 1995’s “GoldenEye,” by means of their EON Productions. (The half-siblings’ father, producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, preceded them.)
“I’m deeply grateful and profoundly moved because I watched my father accept this award in 1981,” Broccoli mentioned. “A farm boy who made good in Hollywood, this award was his most valued possession. My father was and will always be my North Star. Thank you, Daddy, for giving me the greatest life imaginable.”
