This weekend, legendary Australian filmmaker Peter Weir will lastly obtain a long-overdue statue from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences within the kind of an honorary lifetime achievement Oscar at this 12 months’s Governors Awards. The 78-year-old Weir by no means gained a aggressive Oscar regardless of six profession nominations—4 for Best Director, one for Best Original Screenplay, and one for Best Picture—and he’ll be honored alongside songwriter Diane Warren, filmmaker Euzhan Palcy, and actor Michael J. Fox (who can be receiving the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award).
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