A legend of martial arts cinema, a film editor with 60 years of experience, a celebrated
documentarian and the casting director for films like “Tootsie” and “Fiddler on the Roof” will receive honorary Oscars from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the organization’s Governors Awards on Nov. 12.The academy announced its selections — Jackie Chan, Anne V. Coates, Frederick Wiseman and Lynn Stalmaster — Thursday morning. The group’s 54-member board, which represents about 7,000 members, picked the recipients in a vote Tuesday night. Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the academy’s president, called the four honorees “true pioneers.”
Last year, the academy used its Governors Awards, one of which went to Spike Lee, to emphasize a need for greater diversity in the movie business. The new selections continue that theme, but are also notable for spreading the recognition among an array of cinematic specialties. Casting directors, in particular, have long felt overlooked, largely because no competitive Oscar is awarded for their craft.
Mr. Chan, 62, has starred in (and sometimes written, directed and produced) more than 30 martial arts films, most of them made in his native Hong Kong. He received crossover success in the 1990s with “Rumble in the Bronx” and “Rush Hour.” Lately, he has contributed voice-over work to the “Kung Fu Panda” animated series. He has never been nominated for an Oscar.The academy has been stung this year by criticism about a lack of diversity among nominees and for jokes during the last Oscars ceremony that some Asian members found offensive.Ms. Coates, 90, was nominated for five film editing Oscars and won once, in 1963, for her work on “Lawrence of Arabia.” Over her six-decade career, she has worked on films as varied as “The Elephant Man,” directed by David Lynch in 1980, and the 2015 erotic thriller “Fifty Shades of Grey.
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