Big Magilla wrote:I don't quite see Harrison Ford as a career achievement winner. He has been lucky enough to star in two successful franchises and several other box office hits which have made him very wealthy, but a great actor? Nah.
He's still a big, beloved movie star and unlike some of his contemporaries, he managed to eke out a fairly respectable career.
Being reluctant to accept didn't stop them from honoring Jean Luc Godard. He even openly bashed the Oscars. Doris Day isn't completely closed off though. She did accept a special award from L.A. Film Critics or something and appeared via Skype but in audio only.Doris Day is something of a recluse and for all we know has been queried behind the scenes about a possible honorary award which she has been reluctant to accept.
Don't forget her performance as Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast.Her screen legend is as a character actress who in her most famous role, the 12 year TV run of Murder, She Wrote brought out the best of her character acting and at her insistence gave late, often last, career opportunities to older character actors and actresses.
Angelina Jolie seems awfully young to be receiving an Honorary Award even if it's a Jean Hersholt. She has to be the youngest to receive a non-juvenile/non-special achievement honorary award of any kind at the Oscars (Hersholt, Thalberg, Honorary Oscar).