Jean Luc Godard: will he or won't he attend and accept honorary Oscar?
French auteur Jean-Luc Godard, 79, may or may not attend the Governors Awards on November 14 to accept his honorary Oscar. His companion Anne-Marie Mieville said: "At first he thought it was going to be part of the same ceremony, then he realized it was a separate thing in November."
The Academy told reporters that it received a letter from Godard that said he may indeed attend the ceremony: “His note, relayed to the Academy late last week via an assistant to Godard, indicated that, schedule permitting, he would come to Los Angeles for the Nov. 13 Governors Awards event.”
"French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard has confessed that he stole money to finance his films in an interview with a German newspaper. "I had no choice. Or at least it seemed that way to me. I even stole money from my family to give to Rivette for his first film. I pinched money to be able to see films and to make films," he told Die Zeit weekly.
Godard's first film Breathless, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, is considered to be a groundbreaking work of the French New Wave. He cemented his reputation with "Contempt", "Pierrot le Fou" and "Two or Three Things I Know About Her".
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09-08-10
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