Saturday's event — honoring Roberts, Tilda Swinton, Steve McQueen and Miky Lee — welcomed an A-list group of guests to the Los Angeles film gallery and raised $10 million throughout the evening.
Swinton, who received the Visionary Award for “an artist or scholar whose extensive oeuvre has advanced the art of cinema,” told“I can’t quite get my head around it,” she continued.”I don’t really know what it is until we get in there, it feels kind of almost too much.”
McQueen, who received the Vantage Award for “an artist or scholar who has helped to contextualize and challenge dominant narratives around cinema,” added that “it’s an honor to be honored by the Academy — who else would you want to be honored by for a filmmaker?”Miky Lee, who serves as vice chair of the museum’s board, was recognized with the Pillar Award for “exemplary leadership and support for the Academy Museum” and Roberts was presented with the inaugural Gala Icon Award for “an artist...
Robert’s appearance created quite the fanfare among the starry crowd, as Chastain — who walked the press line with hercostar Redmayne — joked that “Julia Roberts brought him out, he’s very excited that Julia Roberts is going to be here tonight,” a sentiment Redmayne confirmed.
“Cinema is the tool of democracy and if we can put our progress in capsules, if we can memorialize it in any way, we should do so,” he said. “It demonstrates ways to live, and to live better, teach us lessons. I’m glad to be here and honor these people today and their contributions to it.” Added Swinton herself, “The thing about film is it never gets old and it’s really important for the archive to be available to everybody. And this museum is really phenomenal. I came around it yesterday and it’s so alive and so inclusive. I think anybody that lives in L.A. should just come and hang out here as much as they can.
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