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It's also a big political statement ahead of the elections. Giving the Jean Hersholt award to a staunch liberal and pro-Obama fundraiser. Don't think for a second that concept wasn't in the mind when they voted.
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Drat no Angela Lansbury again.
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I think this is actually a pretty good list...they probably wouldn't have been my first choices, or jumped out right at me, but they are all respectable, life-long career film people who have innovated a broad range of unheralded aspects of movie making, and no one can question Katzenberg's philanthrophy!
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I love the Pennebaker choice.

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Another sausage fest from the Academy. I hate their new system. Their choices are ALWAYS compromise choices.
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Needham is being honored for his stunt work, not his directing of crappy Burt Reynolds movies.
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The Governor Awards are announced.

A puzzling group of honorees with the exception of maybe D.A. Pennabaker. Hal Needham?
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