The late Quincy Jones was posthumously awarded an honorary Oscar at an emotional and star-packed Hollywood gala on Sunday that additionally handed golden statuettes to the producers of the James Bond film franchise.
U.S. music trade titan Jones died from pancreatic most cancers on the age of 91 simply two weeks earlier than he was set to obtain one of many Academy’s coveted lifetime achievement prizes on the Governors Awards.
His daughter, the actress Rashida Jones, accepted the Oscar, telling the viewers that the legendary hitmaker had been “really excited to attend tonight.”
“He often said ‘live every day like it’s your last and one day you’ll be right.’ And he did that… the best, most beautiful life,” she stated, to an enormous ovation.
Jones was finest recognized for producing smash hit data for a who’s who of music trade legends from Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson.
“Truth is, the man had an equally powerful impact on the world of film,” stated actor Jamie Foxx, introducing his award.
Jones produced seminal Hollywood films together with “The Color Purple,” and acquired a number of Oscar nominations for movie songs and soundtracks together with “In Cold Blood” and “The Wiz.”
Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lopez and Zoe Saldana had been amongst A-listers holding again tears within the viewers as Jennifer Hudson sang a musical tribute.
Hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the swanky black-tie Governors Awards every year honor movie trade veterans, lots of whom are felt to haven’t acquired their dues on the common Oscars.
The occasion additionally gives an opportunity for stars and studios to courtroom Academy voters — and measurement up their rivals — as the subsequent Oscars campaigns start to take form.
At Sunday’s reception, “Succession” stars Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong — campaigning for his or her news movies “A Real Pain” and “The Apprentice” — loved a prolonged catch-up.
Acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar (“The Room Next Door”) conversed along with his exiled Iranian counterpart Mohammad Rasoulof (“The Seed of the Sacred Fig.”)
Daniel Craig — who stars on this 12 months’s William S. Burroughs adaptation “Queer” — chatted with buddies by the bar, his lips firmly sealed in regards to the identification of his successor as James Bond.
Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, the half-siblings who’ve managed the beloved 007 espionage franchise since 1995’s “Goldeneye,” had been among the many honorees Sunday.
Passed the reins by Broccoli’s movie producer father Albert, the duo have overseen a number of of the Bond sequence’ biggest-ever films together with the $1 billion-grossing “Skyfall” in 2012, by which Craig performed the suave British spy with a license to kill.
Anticipation continues to swell for the announcement of who will subsequent play the world’s most well-known fictional spy.
“Just to get something out the way, we came here this evening to find out who the next James Bond is,” joked Craig, on stage introducing their award.
“Don’t look at me. But he might be in the room,” he added — earlier than insisting he was joking.
British author and director Richard Curtis, 68, who created “Notting Hill,” “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” “Love Actually” and “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” acquired the Jean Hersholt statuette, which is particularly for humanitarian work by a movie trade determine.
Curtis co-founded Comic Relief, a British charity that has raised some $2.5 billion over 4 a long time by bringing collectively comedy and leisure stars for zany challenges and wildly fashionable fund-raising telecasts.
A fifth honorary Oscar went to Juliet Taylor, the acclaimed casting director behind “The Exorcist,” “Taxi Driver,” “Annie Hall,” “Sleepless in Seattle” and “Schindler’s List.”
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