Los Angeles (AFP) — A 97-year-old Mel Brooks accepted a lifetime achievement Oscar in Hollywood on Tuesday, greater than half a century after he gained his solely Academy Award with “The Producers.”
At a black-tie gala, Brooks — who memorably despatched up Adolf Hitler in seminal satire “The Producers,” in addition to exposing racial bigotry in movies like “Blazing Saddles” — joked that he felt unhealthy in regards to the destiny of his earlier Oscar for finest authentic screenplay.
“I miss it so much. I never should have sold it,” he stated, to raucous laughter within the ballroom.
“I won’t sell this one, I swear to God!” Brooks added.
U.S. actor Mel Brooks (L) and actress Angela Bassett pose with their Academy Honorary Award throughout the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 14th Annual Governors Awards on the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles on January 9, 2024. (ROBYN BECK/AFP through Getty Images)
The legendary US comedian and filmmaker is already one of many choose few entertainers to win an Oscar, Emmy, Tony, and Grammy — collectively referred to as an “EGOT” — throughout a profession spanning eight many years.
His newest honor got here on the Governors Awards, hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which annually honors 4 beloved trade veterans, lots of whom are felt to haven’t obtained their dues on the common Oscars.
41ST ACADEMY AWARDS – Airdate: April 14, 1969, reveals U.S. actor Mel Brooks after the presentation (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content through Getty Images)
File/American movie director and screenwriter Mel Brooks and his spouse, actress Anne Bancroft (1931 – 2005) attend the forty fourth Annual Golden Globe Awards, on the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, thirty first January 1987. (Frank Edwards/Fotos International/Getty Images)
Actor Mel Brooks (left) sits on the ground beside Harvey Korman as Cleavon Little kneels atop a desk, in a nonetheless from the movie, ‘Blazing Saddles,’ directed by Mel Brooks, 1974. (Photo by Warner Bros./Courtesy of Getty Images)
The night time’s different honorees have been “E.T” editor Carol Littleton, and Michelle Satter, founding senior director of the Sundance Institute’s Artist Programs, which have helped foster the early careers of filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to “Everything Everywhere All At Once” administrators Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
Attendees included Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr and Florence Pugh on behalf of “Oppenheimer,” and Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie for “Barbie.”
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