Godard won't show up for honorary Oscar
Last Updated: Monday, October 25, 2010 | 4:58 PM ET
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French film director Jean-Luc Godard, shown May 18, 2004. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has confirmed he won't travel to L.A. to accept his Governors Award for lifetime contribution to film. (Vincent Kessler/Reuters)The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has confirmed that French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard will not stand on a Hollywood stage to accept his honorary Oscar.
Academy president Tom Sherak said Monday that Godard, 79, had notified him he would not travel to Los Angeles to accept the award for a lifetime's contribution to film.
The New Wave director is famous for films such as Breathless, Alphaville and Weekend.
Notoriously critical of Hollywood, Godard has had "a two-month-long cordial exchange of correspondence" with the academy before "regretfully" turning down the invitation to attend the Nov. 13 Governors Awards at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Sherak said.
"He reiterated his thanks for the award and also sent his good wishes to the other individuals being honored the same night — Kevin Brownlow, Francis Ford Coppola and Eli Wallach — who he refers to as 'the three other musketeers'," Sherak said in a statement Monday.
Coppola will receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for his contribution to film. Film historian Brownlow and Wallach, an actor who appeared recently in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps are to receive honorary Oscars.
The academy will arrange for the Oscar statuette to be delivered to Godard in Switzerland.
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