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Long After "M*A*S*H," Altman Scores Oscar
If Robert Altman were to direct an Academy Award acceptance speech, there probably would be five people trying to say thank you at the same time.
Altman, the maestro of overlapping dialogue, finally will get his shot at a podium production after being voted an honorary Oscar, to be presented Mar. 5 at the 78th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood.
The board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences cast their ballots Tuesday night. Altman, 80, was informed of their decision Wednesday.
In making the announcement public, Academy president Sid Ganis hailed Altman as a "master filmmaker [who] well deserves this honor."
Altman's credits include M*A*S*H, Nashville, The Player, Short Cuts and Gosford Park, the films that have brought him seven career Oscar nominations, including five for Best Director. Like the late Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Lumet and Blake Edwards, other directors tapped for honorary Oscars, Altman has never won a competitive trophy from the Academy.
Still in the game as an octogenarian, Altman's latest fuzzy-plotted, multi-character-driven film, A Prairie Home Companion, is due out later this year.
By the Academy's count, Altman has directed 86 films, writing 37 of them. Early credits, according to the Internet Movie Database, included "How to Run a Filling Station," the sort of industrial short that paid the fledgling director's bills. Moving onto TV in the 1950s, Altman helmed episodes of Bonanza, Maverick and Route 66.
It wasn't until his mid-40s that M*A*S*H, the 1970 black comedy set during the Korean War, but speaking the language of the Vietnam War-era audience, distinguished Altman as a feature director.
A leading maverick of the Easy Riders, Raging Bulls decade of film, Altman eavesdropped on politicians and country singers in Nashville, scrutinized family life in A Wedding, and took an Old West icon down a notch in Buffalo Bill and the Indians.
Of his later work, the proper British murder mystery of Gosford Park was among Altman's most accessible and successful films at the box office.
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