Robin Williams presents the Cecil B. DeMille Award to Gene Hackman. Hackman speaks about Cecil B. DeMille and thanks the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. License Golden Globe Awards Clips Here: dickclarklicensing.com/Default...
I often wonder why the AFI had never given Gene Hackman an award? This man is a two time Academy Award winner with such an iconic film career under his belt!
I'm so glad that Gene Hackman has won this award... I always have the feeling that he is a bit underrated when compared to contemporaries like De Niro, Nicholson, Pacino, and Hoffman. He really is in the same league as them. And he was nominated for only five Academy Awards... He wasn't even nominated for his roles in The Conversation and Hoosiers, for example! Now, I'm still waiting to see him back once more... not even for a film, but for the AFI Life Achievement Award. I surely do hope he receives that award soon.
Not only did both Gene Hackman and the late great Robin Williams do "The BirdCage" (1996) together, they both have had the distinction of playing characters in their films named or nicknamed "Popeye". Hackman was "Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle" in "The French Connection" (1971), while Williams had played the title character in the film, "Popeye" (1980), which was his big screen debut.
You have outdone all the actors you named - your brilliant dramatic role in "Witness" and your over-the-top comedic presentation of the evil villain Lex Luthor come to mind. You've always been my favorite actor because of your range and because you always made me forget you were playing a role. Thank you Gene Hackman for being the actor you were, and still are.
He really is a good actor, unfortunately I’ve read the stories about how he acted on the sets of these movies. Especially Hoosiers where he belittled the director David Anspaugh before the movie even began right in front of the cast and crew and told him he was a phony and didn’t know what he was doing. Anspaugh and Anthony Pizzo,The writer,both called him the black cloud, because he was so miserable and hateful throughout the whole process. I for one think Hoosiers turned out pretty good for someone who didn’t know what you were doing, my compliments Mr. Anspaugh.
Great actor. Got out on top. Perfect exit. I’de like to think that he saw the direction that hollywood was going and chose to not participate in the self righteous madness that has a death grip on hollywood today. Hollywood was never great, now its just disgusting. I don’t care about your political or sexual leanings. All i want you to do is sing me a song and sit down. God bless America.
I agree Hollyweird has always been at heart racist place. Now is a only state of mind. They way it treated minorities especially blacks is disgusting. I blame these Jews who think they are not to blame but they are. Gene Hackman is an author nowadays maybe he felt he could not do both.
Hackman is good but cant understand how he and Robin Williams got i before De Niro and Scorsese, and Al Pacino havent even recieved it yet something is wrong....
