Should Get a Lifetime Oscar
-
pcgambler2002 — 14 years ago(September 02, 2011 11:40 AM)
I think the fact that they don't give posthumous honorary Oscars is a bad policy. There are so many fine actors that never received the recognition that an Oscar brings. The names that come to mind..along with James Garner, one big name that comes to mind is Errol Flynn. Also Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Stewart Granger, Tony Curtis, Randolph Scott, William Powell, Buster Keaton..Thankfully Charlie Chaplin FINALLY got recognized before he passed on. That is a policy which really needs to change!
-
lanathegreat88 — 16 years ago(November 16, 2009 09:52 PM)
I totally agree with you too. He is a great actor and he deserves a Lifetime Achievement Oscar. He's one of the few actors that successfully went back and forth from television to movies.
"There's the next mission, and nothing else." -
redrosemafia — 15 years ago(March 09, 2011 06:53 AM)
I was just thinking the same thing OP; He's always enjoyable to watch and I've heard he was a really nice guy to work with.
I'm surprised he's been ignored for so long, I really hope they consider him for next year. -
amybirenbaum1202 — 14 years ago(February 28, 2012 05:07 PM)
I am thrilled to see all the support for Jim Garner getting a Lifetime Achievement Oscar. Amazingly, a petition has been started just yesterday. You can find the link at The Official James Garner Fan Page. I would post it here myself if I knew how. Please sign the petition if you feel as strongly as I do.
Thank you. -
daniel-kyle — 14 years ago(March 18, 2012 08:21 AM)
https://www.facebook.com/LifeAchievementOscarForJamesGarner
That's the link to vote for James Garner for an honorary Academy Award. -
olympiias — 13 years ago(November 06, 2012 07:18 AM)
Besides you don't want to give him one of those..The average lifespan of the recipients of them are usually very short after getting it.
Olympiias: "I can catch the moon in my handsDon't you know who I am?
Remember my name" -
rrb — 13 years ago(November 18, 2012 08:08 AM)
Sorry, OP, but there's a difference btn being beloved and being a star whose talent and body of work are unique and extraordinary, which is what the Lifetime Achievement Oscar recognizes. Mr. Garner is in the former category. LAO recipients like Barbara Stanwyck and Peter O'Toole are in the latter. I'm as fond of Mr. Garner as anyone else, but he's not in the caliber of the other actors cited.
-
skinsk-1 — 13 years ago(December 15, 2012 03:45 AM)
well, there are lots who disagree. . . Mr. Garner has created a number of characters who still resonate with us. His characters feel real. . . though they may not be the flashy characters that tend to win awards.
-
rrb — 13 years ago(December 15, 2012 10:08 AM)
Yes, when you're fond of an actor, his performances do resonate. Doesn't make him an artist of such distinction that he deserves a Lifetime Achievement Award.
"flashy characterstend to win awards."
Actually, it's the actors who win the awards, not the characters.
And how are Garner's characters less "flashy" than those of award-winning actors? -
anthny_platt — 10 years ago(February 24, 2016 10:41 AM)
Is rrb really saying that Garner was an inferior actor to Barbara Stanwick? I beg to differ.
The Oscars are generally awarded to those actors who are best at stealing scenes, not to dedicated ensemble actors who are more interested in being a part of a great film than in advancing their own careers. The fact that Garner didn't get an Oscar is the Academy insulting itself, and no reflection on Garner. The Academy realized it's own folly in time to finally award Henry Fonda for his work in "On Golden Pond", but in Garner's case it remained asleep at the switch.
Either that or they didn't like him because he was part Cherokee. I'm not sure which.