Peter O'Toole turning down an honorary Oscar? (Merged)
01-29-03, 02:51 PM
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The IMDb reports that he turned down the invitation to attend and recieve the Oscar. I guess he was insulted and felt he still has a few good years ahead of him and wants to win one "for real"
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O'Toole Rejects Oscar; Academy Says He Earned It
After receiving a letter from Peter O'Toole appearing to reject an honorary Oscar that the motion picture academy had planned to present to him this year, the academy's board of directors has sent a note to the actor saying, "The board unanimously and enthusiastically voted you the honorary award because you've earned and deserved it." In a handwritten note, O'Toole said that he was "still in the game and might win the lovely bugger outright."
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O'Toole Rejects Oscar; Academy Says He Earned It
After receiving a letter from Peter O'Toole appearing to reject an honorary Oscar that the motion picture academy had planned to present to him this year, the academy's board of directors has sent a note to the actor saying, "The board unanimously and enthusiastically voted you the honorary award because you've earned and deserved it." In a handwritten note, O'Toole said that he was "still in the game and might win the lovely bugger outright."
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01-29-03, 04:51 PM
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Hmm. I appreciate his principles but I wonder if he's going to get a 'legitimate' shot at it again. Has he really been in a great movie in the last decade or two? (Besides "Phantoms" and "King Ralph," of course)
Then again it's only the Oscar and if Roberto Benigni can win one, anyone can so it probably doesn't mean that much anyway. In a just world Pete should've won for Lawrence anyway. (Even tho Peck was great too)
Then again it's only the Oscar and if Roberto Benigni can win one, anyone can so it probably doesn't mean that much anyway. In a just world Pete should've won for Lawrence anyway. (Even tho Peck was great too)
01-29-03, 05:08 PM
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Peter O'Toole turning down an honorary Oscar?
He thinks he's too young, and doesn't want to spoil his chances for a "real" oscar! 
Sounds like the Academy doesn't want to take no for an answer, though -- so the dust hasn't really settled on this one...
Not trying to be mean, but I was surprised he's only 70... He looks like a death warmed over... I guess 55 years of binge-drinking can do that to a fella...
Sounds like the Academy doesn't want to take no for an answer, though -- so the dust hasn't really settled on this one...
Actor Peter O'Toole Rebuffs Honorary Oscar
1 hour, 43 minutes ago
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For all the accolades handed out in Hollywood, it's rare to find a performer who is unwilling to accept one. But Peter O'Toole is no ordinary entertainer.
Academy Award organizers want to present the eccentric 70-year-old Irish actor with an honorary Oscar, but he says he won't be ready to accept such an award for at least another decade.
In a brief, hand-written open letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, O'Toole politely suggested that receiving an honorary Oscar might preclude him from eventually winning a competitive statuette.
O'Toole has earned seven Oscar nominations as best actor, starting with his 1962 title role in "Lawrence of Arabia," but has never won.
Describing what he thought about an honorary Oscar being in the offing, he wrote: "I was enchanted but said that as I was still in the game and might yet win the lovely bugger outright, would the Academy please defer the honor until I am 80?"
Academy President Frank Pierson responded by saying the award was for "achievement and contribution to the art of the motion picture, not for retirement," and that the academy's Board of Governors had "unanimously and enthusiastically voted you the honorary because you've earned and deserve it."
"It will be there for you at the awards ceremony March 23, and we hope you'll be there with us," Pierson wrote. "If not, it will be at the academy for you to pick up when you're 80, or whenever you're ready."
Academy spokesman John Pavlik told Reuters on Thursday the academy chooses its award designees regardless of whether they plan to show up. And while winning actors such as Marlon Brando and George C. Scott have snubbed the Oscars, no one can remember an honorary recipient refusing to accept one.
Academy officials also noted that other movie greats, among them Henry Fonda and Paul Newman, have received an honorary award and gone on to win a statuette competitively.
"There's an inaccurate perception out there that if you get one of these things, that your career is over, and we don't feel that way at all," Pavlik said.
1 hour, 43 minutes ago
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For all the accolades handed out in Hollywood, it's rare to find a performer who is unwilling to accept one. But Peter O'Toole is no ordinary entertainer.
Academy Award organizers want to present the eccentric 70-year-old Irish actor with an honorary Oscar, but he says he won't be ready to accept such an award for at least another decade.
In a brief, hand-written open letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, O'Toole politely suggested that receiving an honorary Oscar might preclude him from eventually winning a competitive statuette.
O'Toole has earned seven Oscar nominations as best actor, starting with his 1962 title role in "Lawrence of Arabia," but has never won.
Describing what he thought about an honorary Oscar being in the offing, he wrote: "I was enchanted but said that as I was still in the game and might yet win the lovely bugger outright, would the Academy please defer the honor until I am 80?"
Academy President Frank Pierson responded by saying the award was for "achievement and contribution to the art of the motion picture, not for retirement," and that the academy's Board of Governors had "unanimously and enthusiastically voted you the honorary because you've earned and deserve it."
"It will be there for you at the awards ceremony March 23, and we hope you'll be there with us," Pierson wrote. "If not, it will be at the academy for you to pick up when you're 80, or whenever you're ready."
Academy spokesman John Pavlik told Reuters on Thursday the academy chooses its award designees regardless of whether they plan to show up. And while winning actors such as Marlon Brando and George C. Scott have snubbed the Oscars, no one can remember an honorary recipient refusing to accept one.
Academy officials also noted that other movie greats, among them Henry Fonda and Paul Newman, have received an honorary award and gone on to win a statuette competitively.
"There's an inaccurate perception out there that if you get one of these things, that your career is over, and we don't feel that way at all," Pavlik said.
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Originally posted by Sierra Disc
Hmm. I appreciate his principles but I wonder if he's going to get a 'legitimate' shot at it again. Has he really been in a great movie in the last decade or two?
Hmm. I appreciate his principles but I wonder if he's going to get a 'legitimate' shot at it again. Has he really been in a great movie in the last decade or two?
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Please ask to merge the 2, since your story has more details about his refusal.
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Please ask to merge the 2, since your story has more details about his refusal.
Chris
01-29-03, 09:54 PM
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Re: Re: Peter O'Toole To Get Honorary Oscar
Originally posted by DonnachaOne
I say this with the greatest amount of restraint possible...
I say this with the greatest amount of restraint possible...
"BRITISH"!?!!?!?!?!
Let's show the man some bloody respect! He is an IRISHMAN!!!
I like to think that there's a pub up in heaven where Harris, Richard Burton and Oliver Reed are hoisting a pint to their old mate.
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It seems that O'Toole doesn't want it because he feels accepting it would be an admission that his carreer is at its end (it isn't), and that the Accademy refuses to rescind the award because they want him to accept it because they don't want their award to be percieved as the award equivelent of a gold watch (which it is).
Even if he's doing it just to show off how "ecentric" he is I say Cheers! to O'Toole
Even if he's doing it just to show off how "ecentric" he is I say Cheers! to O'Toole
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I think the smarter thing would be for the Academy to not announce the recipient until they've actually offered it to him or her first. Then it wouldn't be an issue.
I do think it's a bit crabby of O'Toole, though.
I do think it's a bit crabby of O'Toole, though.
01-30-03, 02:19 PM
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He's going to regret refusing the Oscar when he sobers up.
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I can't see any logical reason to NOT accept this award...his reasoning is quite ridiculous, and let's face it, with the pictures he's been making lately, that Oscar dream is getting slimer and slimer by the day, so if I were him, I'd take what I could get!
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O'Toole's Change of Oscar Heart
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ovies_eo/11283
Thu Feb 13, 5:40 PM ET Add Entertainment - E! Online to My Yahoo!
By Joal Ryan
Pencil in Peter O'Toole; hold off on the tux rental for Eminem.
Yes, the R.S.V.P.'s are coming in for the 75th Annual Academy Awards--from presenters, nominees, musical performers and one very reluctant honoree.
O'Toole, the very reluctant honoree, is now a "yes" to attend the March 23 ceremony at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre, it was said Wednesday.
According to show producer Gil Cates, Academy officials convinced the 70-year-old Irish actor that the honorary statuette, presented for career achievement, would not mean he was about to be pushed off on an ice floe, and/or relegated to a lousy table at The Ivy. (We paraphrase.)
Last month, O'Toole penned an open letter to the Academy, noting that while he was "enchanted" by its gesture, he thought of himself as "still in the game."
"Would the Academy please defer the honor until I am 80?," he wrote.
O'Toole and the Oscars (news - web sites) are a star-crossed pair. On the plus side, he's been nominated for Best Actor seven times--from Lawrence of Arabia to My Favorite Year. On the minus side, he's never, ever won.
Academy officials had vowed to give him the honorary award, whether or not he showed to accept it.
O'Toole's reps said Thursday they had no further comment on his change of heart.
But just so O'Toole can be assured the Oscar folks weren't pulling his leg, there is historical precedent for an honorary award not signaling the end of a film career and the beginning of a Fixodent endorsement.
In 1986, for example, Paul Newman (news), then a 61-year-old, seven-time Oscar loser, was presented with his own honorary statuette. The next year, he claimed his first competitive Oscar--a Best Actor win for The Color of Money. He's gone on to nab two more nominations, including the most recent, a Best Supporting Actor nod, for Road to Perdition.
Joining O'Toole at the Kodak next month will be the likes of Jennifer Lopez (news), Will Smith (news), Meg Ryan (news), reigning Oscar champs Denzel Washington (news), Halle Berry (news) and Jennifer Connelly (news), and current nominees Renée Zellweger, Salma Hayek (news) and Julianne Moore (news). All are set as presenters.
Cates said that while no musical act is yet a lock, it's likely U2 and Paul Simon (news) will perform their Oscar-nominated songs. In the case of U2, that would be "The Hands that Built America," from Gangs of New York. Simon would croon "Father and Daughter," from The Wild Thornberrys Movie.
Eminem (news - web sites)--make that, the Oscar-nominated Eminem (for penning 8 Mile's "Lose Yourself")--is another story.
While Cates isn't worried about unleashing the bad-boy rapper and his bad-boy mouth on live TV ("Eminem has an airplay version of that song," Cates told the Associated Press), he doesn't know if the performer's schedule has room for the Oscars.
"We haven't heard," Cates said.
Apparently too hip for the Beverly Hilton, Eminem previously skipped the Golden Globes. He is, however, booked to perform at the Grammys (news - web sites), which take place February 23 in New York.
One thing's for sure, if Eminem avoids the Kodak, he can forget about making an acceptance speech.
While it makes sense that only those in attendances would be able to deliver their thank-yous, Oscar producers have been asked if TV magic would help Roman Polanski (news) get around that conundrum.
Polanski, a double-nominee for directing and producing Best Picture hopeful The Pianist, risks arrest on a 1977 statutory rape charge if he sets foot in California, or indeed, the United States. (This would be why he lives in Paris.)
But even if the exiled filmmaker remains a Hollywood favorite, Cates has said the Academy won't hook up a satellite feed to allow Polanski (or anyone else) a window into the awards.
Things were different in 1955. That year, the Oscars worked around Judy Garland's life, dispatching a camera crew to her Los Angeles hospital room (she'd just given birth to her son) in the event she was named Best Actress for A Star Is Born. (The crew was quickly un-dispatched when Grace Kelly won instead for The Country Girl.)
Best Supporting Actress nominee Catherine Zeta-Jones (news) isn't taking a pregnant pause to figure out whether she'll attend this year. The Chicago hoofer, who should be eight-and-half-months along with her and Michael Douglas (news)' latest joint production come Oscar night, says she plans to be there. But it's unknown if she'll be in the voice, or in the mood, to croon her film's Oscar-nominated song, "I Move On," with costar Zellweger.
Steve Martin (news) hosts the live ABC telecast, to be broadcast at 8:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. PT. E! begins its all-day coverage at 7 a.m. ET/4 a.m. PT, with the live, red-carpet action starting at 6 pm ET/3pm PT.
It will be nice to see him get a standing ovation and he may not make it to 80, so he better get it while he can.
Chris
Thu Feb 13, 5:40 PM ET Add Entertainment - E! Online to My Yahoo!
By Joal Ryan
Pencil in Peter O'Toole; hold off on the tux rental for Eminem.
Yes, the R.S.V.P.'s are coming in for the 75th Annual Academy Awards--from presenters, nominees, musical performers and one very reluctant honoree.
O'Toole, the very reluctant honoree, is now a "yes" to attend the March 23 ceremony at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre, it was said Wednesday.
According to show producer Gil Cates, Academy officials convinced the 70-year-old Irish actor that the honorary statuette, presented for career achievement, would not mean he was about to be pushed off on an ice floe, and/or relegated to a lousy table at The Ivy. (We paraphrase.)
Last month, O'Toole penned an open letter to the Academy, noting that while he was "enchanted" by its gesture, he thought of himself as "still in the game."
"Would the Academy please defer the honor until I am 80?," he wrote.
O'Toole and the Oscars (news - web sites) are a star-crossed pair. On the plus side, he's been nominated for Best Actor seven times--from Lawrence of Arabia to My Favorite Year. On the minus side, he's never, ever won.
Academy officials had vowed to give him the honorary award, whether or not he showed to accept it.
O'Toole's reps said Thursday they had no further comment on his change of heart.
But just so O'Toole can be assured the Oscar folks weren't pulling his leg, there is historical precedent for an honorary award not signaling the end of a film career and the beginning of a Fixodent endorsement.
In 1986, for example, Paul Newman (news), then a 61-year-old, seven-time Oscar loser, was presented with his own honorary statuette. The next year, he claimed his first competitive Oscar--a Best Actor win for The Color of Money. He's gone on to nab two more nominations, including the most recent, a Best Supporting Actor nod, for Road to Perdition.
Joining O'Toole at the Kodak next month will be the likes of Jennifer Lopez (news), Will Smith (news), Meg Ryan (news), reigning Oscar champs Denzel Washington (news), Halle Berry (news) and Jennifer Connelly (news), and current nominees Renée Zellweger, Salma Hayek (news) and Julianne Moore (news). All are set as presenters.
Cates said that while no musical act is yet a lock, it's likely U2 and Paul Simon (news) will perform their Oscar-nominated songs. In the case of U2, that would be "The Hands that Built America," from Gangs of New York. Simon would croon "Father and Daughter," from The Wild Thornberrys Movie.
Eminem (news - web sites)--make that, the Oscar-nominated Eminem (for penning 8 Mile's "Lose Yourself")--is another story.
While Cates isn't worried about unleashing the bad-boy rapper and his bad-boy mouth on live TV ("Eminem has an airplay version of that song," Cates told the Associated Press), he doesn't know if the performer's schedule has room for the Oscars.
"We haven't heard," Cates said.
Apparently too hip for the Beverly Hilton, Eminem previously skipped the Golden Globes. He is, however, booked to perform at the Grammys (news - web sites), which take place February 23 in New York.
One thing's for sure, if Eminem avoids the Kodak, he can forget about making an acceptance speech.
While it makes sense that only those in attendances would be able to deliver their thank-yous, Oscar producers have been asked if TV magic would help Roman Polanski (news) get around that conundrum.
Polanski, a double-nominee for directing and producing Best Picture hopeful The Pianist, risks arrest on a 1977 statutory rape charge if he sets foot in California, or indeed, the United States. (This would be why he lives in Paris.)
But even if the exiled filmmaker remains a Hollywood favorite, Cates has said the Academy won't hook up a satellite feed to allow Polanski (or anyone else) a window into the awards.
Things were different in 1955. That year, the Oscars worked around Judy Garland's life, dispatching a camera crew to her Los Angeles hospital room (she'd just given birth to her son) in the event she was named Best Actress for A Star Is Born. (The crew was quickly un-dispatched when Grace Kelly won instead for The Country Girl.)
Best Supporting Actress nominee Catherine Zeta-Jones (news) isn't taking a pregnant pause to figure out whether she'll attend this year. The Chicago hoofer, who should be eight-and-half-months along with her and Michael Douglas (news)' latest joint production come Oscar night, says she plans to be there. But it's unknown if she'll be in the voice, or in the mood, to croon her film's Oscar-nominated song, "I Move On," with costar Zellweger.
Steve Martin (news) hosts the live ABC telecast, to be broadcast at 8:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. PT. E! begins its all-day coverage at 7 a.m. ET/4 a.m. PT, with the live, red-carpet action starting at 6 pm ET/3pm PT.
It will be nice to see him get a standing ovation and he may not make it to 80, so he better get it while he can.
Chris