John Huston presenting an Honorary Oscar® to Orson Welles for superlative artistry and versatility in the creation of motion pictures at the 43rd Academy Awards® in 1971.
Huston was basically giving the middle finger to Hollywood, and calling them out on their hypocrisy for giving Welles this award, when they constantly set out to destroy his work, and didn't hire him for anything during the last twenty years of his life. Respect!
TheRubberStudiosASMR Zack is a fuckup though, everyone knew of the impact welles had, but were screwing him over anyway coz he wasnt making enough money
RIP John Huston (August 5, 1906 - August 28, 1987), aged 81 And RIP Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985), aged 70 You both will be remembered as legends.
John Huston lived for many years in a castle not far from where I live in Ireland. Although he lived in a castle he didn't act like a lord or anything of the kind. If you met him in the pub or in the street he'd always say hello and if things were quiet he might have a short conversation with you. Almost every big star of the period visited Huston at his castle at one time or another and they usually ended up in the local pub...back in those days Irish people loved the movies but they would never think of bothering an actor too much if they met them walking on the street..and so you could meet anyone, especially during boozy weekends which Huston hosted regularly. The most memorable of Hustons guests at least for for the locals must be Richard Burton. He arrived in the pub one Saturday morning and he was still there that night entertaining a packed house with story after story told in that incredible voice of his..and demolishing it is thought more than two bottles of vodka in the process..but what a really nice gentleman he was. John Huston broke his leg badly during his stay here and it's recorded he incurred this injury after falling from his horse. Indeed he did, but he fell from his horse while riding in the pouring rain early one morning while wearing his pyjamas and blind drunk. I think his daugher mentioned this some years ago and it was witnessed by many of the locals. Such great characters we'll never see again..and Wells....I think he deserves to be described as something of a polymath..great man.
I'm thinking of all the actors I would like to see sitting at the table with Huston and Burton. Richard Harris, Oliver Reed, Robert Shaw, etc.,. I think the pub would be out of beer and whiskey before the end of the night.
“On my way back to Ireland, I’ll stop in Spain and give him this.” I can’t think of two directors more eloquent, talented or compelling as John Huston and Orson Welles. They were singular.
The joke was on the audience and the Academy. Orson Welles was at home in L.A. that night, and Huston drove down to his pad after this segment to give him the award and laugh about it over drinks.
The Academy should give Mr Welles another, posthumously, as a cautionary reminder of an industry's propensity for hounding and demonizing not just one of their own, but one of their absolute best.
Ah, those were the days. Why can't the OSCARs have moments like this anymore? It appears there might have been a montage of Welles' films around the 1:30 mark that has been cut out of this video. What a shame!
Orson Welles was a great , masterful film-maker and a great personality which we will never see again. Was such a strong man and so interested in others. His voice was one of a kind.
Academy award winners get to enjoy that great honor for twelve months and then they are soon forgotten when they find themselves eclipsed by the next year's winners. Citizen Kane is Immortal.
Wells did win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Citizen Kane, but because the film didn’t win Best Actor, Best Director and Best Picture, people don’t seem to realize this.
@@philiphalpenny9761 but he still won an Academy Award, regardless of sharing credit or not. Me writing my comment was to illustrate that he’s an Oscar winner, as many believe that because he didn’t win Best Actor and Best Director as well as the film not winning Best Picture, Orson Welles never got an Academy Award. Now, he didn’t get personally nominated again for his work after Citizen Kane, which is a shame. The Magnificent Ambersons got nominated for Best Picture, but that was before producers got their names attached to the award. At that time those specific awards went to the company the film was made under, like RKO with this conversation, so Welles was nominated for 3 Oscars and won just 1.
@@Jared_Wignall The recent film Mank concurs with Pauline Kael in trying to strip even that little bit of acclaim for Welles. I wonder if Orson is enjoying a perverse grin today on the 106th anniversary of his birth...wherever he is!
At the age of 28 he managed to create one of the finest films of all time. If he deserved only 1 Oscar for Screenplay for that film then the world is flat.
I've been down an Orson Welles wormhole the last few days, watching and reading many interviews, articles & essays. In so doing, I've found myself taking umbrage on behalf of a man more than 30 years gone. The twists of the knife and turns of the wheel have been both enjoyable and infuriating. How is it that man with a blindingly apparent genius could have been attacked with such venom and virulence that there was a period during which he was written out of his own career. I'm talking of course about Pauline Kael. It must have been some measure of comfort to Mr Welles that the Academy and the AFI rightly honoured him. But I do wonder if Mr Welles thought about the motives of the Academy, especially, when for many years the industry told so many lies about him. If he were a straight up and down asshole, or he was a profligate budget blower or he had monstrous skeletons in his closet, I'd understand why they'd turn their backs. But in _every single_ interview I've seen, Mr Welles comes across as magnanimous, warm, charming and as humble as he might be self-aggrandizing. Actually even the latter is wrong. There was no balancing act between humility and self-congratulation. He was always mindful of when he thought he might sound pompous, he displayed an immense generosity of spirit and when he spoke of actors in high regard, you knew he was telling the truth because he offset his love of actors with his disdain for producers. I won't ever be able to fathom why Pauline Kael was so desperate to tear down Orson Welles that whatever code of ethics she had was ruined.
Nx Doyle I've been going down the same rabbit hole as you, although I don't feel the need to fight Welles' battles posthumously. I just enjoy hearing the man speak. Everything he says is so well thought out. I still haven't seen Kane, another of many classics on my list.
@@ivam6473 I'm catching up. I saw Citizen Kane and The Third Man and even went down the road of "The Other Side of the Wind" and "They'll Love Me When I'm Dead." But I still have more to watch.
We know a remote farm in Europe where Orson Welles lives. Every July, he and John Huston film another six minutes of _The Other Side Of The Wind._ And now here, under protest, is beefburgers.
Hearst, Hollywood, AND POISONOUS JEALOUSIES are what strangled much of Orson's desire to make many films and not have to constantly scrabble to put the production capital together. This AAward was, of course, WAY long overdue, ... but at least enough people came to their senses to award it to him. he probably used it as a doorstop.
Following the release of Citizen Kane, which Hearst and several studio heads tried to destroy based upon the unflattering portrayal of the newspaper mogul, Welles never made a commercially released film without interference. The Magnificent Ambersons was badly edited and shown in truncated form; The Lady From Shanghai was also altered; Touch Of Evil was re-cut, although it was later restored to Welles vision; Chimes At Midnight had a limited release after a N.Y. Times negative review and his last film, The Other Side Of The Wind, was confiscated and never commercially released, although the film has now come back to the Welles estate and is being completed by Peter Bogdanovich.
This was Welles quiet--and nearly unknown--snub to the industry that for so long ignored him. He really was in Los Angeles at the time of the awards, but sent the bit of film to take his place. He didn't feel the need to be present for his own career funeral. "I was hiding out in Laurel Canyon!" chortled he...
As someone who agrees that John Huston and Orson Welles (as well as many other film makers of that era) were gods among men, I would argue that there are still talented figures like that today. Whether it be Paul Thomas Anderson, Vince Gilligan, Martin Scorcese, Takashi Miike or any of the film makers working at Pixar (to name a few). Genius does not come with any single era, although those geniuses produced by each era helps us to better understand them.
I hope Hollywood understood its mistakes. He didn't want an Oscar, he wanted to work, to do what he did best. If we'll ever have another Orson Welles, Hollywood better not leave him on his own like they did to him
Welles was in Hollywood when his Honorary Oscar was presented, however, he made a deliberate decision not to attend the presentation. He continued to struggle to obtain financing for the completion of The Other Side Of The Wind, that was edited and released to Netflix thirty years after his death; He wanted to make a film of King Lear, but he couldn't obtain Studio money.
Lol Orson welles was actually in his flat 😂. It was revealed later both huston and Welles just went fuck you to the academy for treating them like shit, and they laughed theyre asses off when they realised the academy were honouring welles to look good in the public eye. He deliberately didnt show, and lied about it, and the academy knew it. That's why John Huston says "Happy lunacy that really telling it like it is" lmao the Oscars uploading this now continues the irony.
The Hollywood establishment saw Orson Welles as a huge threat because he could produce, direct, finance and star in movies. DIY and in an expert way, in a Citizen Kane way. If that was allowed to flourish there would be no need for the industry or the fat cat studio moguls. He said movie direction could be learned in a day and a half, directly from an expert. He exposed the money racket that is Hollywood. That's why they butchered his films in post production editing and froze him out. He was bugged and followed. Attempts were made to frame him in criminal set ups but he escaped to Europe in time.
Cinephiles admire it, but it isn't an easy film to "love." One reason "How Green Was My Valley" won over "Citizen Kane" was the emotional factor. "Valley" was more accessible and tugged at the heartstrings, while "Kane" was more intellectually stimulating as an artistic expression. Both great films, though.
Orson was Sublime indeed his cadence and supreme intelligence❤️ Hollywood will never redeem themselves for the Magnificent Ambersons and the cutting ✂️ of his film🤨
He looks like he has his Paul Masson suit on on. Maybe that's why he couldn't attend the ceremony because he was filming a Paul Masson commercial. "Aaaah the frenchhhh champagne!"
atleast they threw him this award. Given the animosity Hollywood and industry head had with him and constantly fucking him over, it was possible that this may have never happened
Welles should have left Hollywood after making Citizen Kane. He should have gone back to making a killing doing radio and theater, two mediums that he excelled at. After a few years, Citizen Kane's mastery would have been recognized and the studios would have begged for him to come back... and W.R. Hearst would have been literately and figuratively out of the picture.
Kubrick and Walles at least have an oscar ( yes citizen kane won best screenplay ) hitchcock hasnt won anything from the academy , only some memorial award during the last years of his career
Welles made a conscious decision not to attend the Oscar ceremony at which he was given this honorary Oscar. As evidenced in the new book memorializing conversations with the director Henry Jaglom, Welles couldn't obtain financing for virtually any project involving him as a director/star during the 70s and the 80s until his death. His efforts to complete and release The Other Side Of The Wind were frustrated. He wanted to direct and star in a production of King Lear that didn't come to fruition
How ironic that Welles refers to making more films in the future; he made, "The Other Side Of The Wind" with John Huston as an actor in 1973, however, it has never been commercially released. He made F Is for Fake and a few short films like The Immortal Story, but he never achieved a commercial success. Kane, Touch Of Evil and Chimes At Midnight have all achieved an exalted status among film aficianados.
Wikipedia says: William Shakespeare's play Macbeth is said to be cursed, so actors avoid saying its name when in the theatre (the euphemism "The Scottish Play" is used instead).
I understand that it was unfair back then, but who cares how long it took for him to get an Oscar. This is us 41 years after this Honorary Oscar was presented, still going on about it... 30 years; the Oscar is not just for Citizen Kane, but for 30 years of brilliant contribution to the Industry. And regardless of the truth Welles spoke about the audience, his audience appreciated and appreciates him just as much as the movie people.
Orson insisted that he couldn’t attend as he would be working in Europe and agreed to do a film piece for the ceremony. In actuality he was at home in LA watching the show on TV.
Study his mannerisms while speaking, how he uses his eyes, especially when he makes eye contact with the camera and what he does when he's thinking... he's hypnotic. Then do it for a day. You will see a huge difference in how you're treated... especially by the laydeez ;-)
The Academy is usually too little, too late. Welles getting an honorary Oscar when he should have had an Oscar for best director many times over is ridiculous. He should have received the Oscar for director for Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, and Chimes at Midnight. They did the same thing to Chaplin. He should have received the Oscar for director for City Lights, Modern Times, and the Great Dictator.
He received a special Oscar in 1928 for his work on "The Circus." But it's true, Chaplin was nominated several times competitively, but only won in 1973 for his (20-year-old) "Limelight" score, due the technicality that it hadn't been released in LA in 1952. So, the Academy honored him 3 times during his career.
There's a certain sadness in watching this. Citizen Kane and Orson Welles overlooked constantly by this organization, so we get one of those "Better Late Than Never" Oscars. Hope you guys still stand by your choices like Paul Lukas and Paul Muni over those you thought were losers like Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, and Orson Welles.
True about Paul Muni. So called "prestige actors" of yesterday now, if remembered at all, look preposterous. Edward G. Robinson, the great character actor, was not nominated in a 50 year career service to films.
Does anyone know the name of the theme that is playing at the start of the video when John Huston walks onto the stage. It sounds amazing! Would be much appreciated if someone could tell me the name of the theme :)
I miss the times when Oscar speeches were like this. Today they can't grab that trophy and thank the Academy for recognizing the value of their work, they must also make a woke statement on issues they don't even understand and use the kind of "YAAS KWEEN" vocabulary that gets social media engagement but leaves nothing of value to future film students.
Welles and Huston were lying. Welles hated the hypocrisy of the Oscars, and dreaded getting up to thank all the people who had refused to employ him for so many years - so he & Huston made up the excuse about being in Spain. In reality, when the ceremony was screened, he was living in poverty in a rented bungalow down the road in LA, watching it on TV. At the end, he yelled at the TV "Bring it over, John!" That the Academy should now post this speech to publicise itself is the ultimate irony.
Welles was sometimes contradictory. If you listen to his interviews it does slip out that awards meant nothing to him. On the other hand he was always polite, always the gentleman, not wanting to offend. Hollywood could afford to give him awards just not any money.
Yea Exactly. Hollywood wanted to present Orsons works as their works. Glad Orson had the final say and stayed true even though Hollywood snubbed him in later years. They don't mind reaping the revenue in from Orsons Legendary Work still to this Day though and on. Agents, bleh! More like Satans little helpers ready to make or break somebody.
He was snubbed in Touch of Evil. Vertigo, another classic film of 1958, only had 2 technical nominations. Touch of Evil did not get a single Oscar nomination. Gigi won every Oscar it was nominated for including Best Picture and Director. Both Hitchcock and Welles were snubbed badly that year.
John Huston's presentation alone deserved a standing ovation.
It was fantastic
He sounds like Daniel Plainview. 😂
Huston was basically giving the middle finger to Hollywood, and calling them out on their hypocrisy for giving Welles this award, when they constantly set out to destroy his work, and didn't hire him for anything during the last twenty years of his life.
Respect!
They're doing the same to Zack Snyder, but he kind of warrents it
+TheRubberStudiosASMR fuck no!
Zack getting a 2nd chance after MoS is quite a rare show off confidence that most people don't get
TheRubberStudiosASMR Zack is a fuckup though, everyone knew of the impact welles had, but were screwing him over anyway coz he wasnt making enough money
How dare you compare Zack Snyder to Orson Welles.
@@TheRubberStudiosASMR Zack is no Orson, but yeah he deserves it
RIP John Huston (August 5, 1906 - August 28, 1987), aged 81
And
RIP Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985), aged 70
You both will be remembered as legends.
Huston and Welles were great friends. This presentation by Huston and Welles recorded response are treasure. Thank you for posting this, very much.
John Huston lived for many years in a castle not far from where I live in Ireland. Although he lived in a castle he didn't act like a lord or anything of the kind. If you met him in the pub or in the street he'd always say hello and if things were quiet he might have a short conversation with you. Almost every big star of the period visited Huston at his castle at one time or another and they usually ended up in the local pub...back in those days Irish people loved the movies but they would never think of bothering an actor too much if they met them walking on the street..and so you could meet anyone, especially during boozy weekends which Huston hosted regularly. The most memorable of Hustons guests at least for for the locals must be Richard Burton. He arrived in the pub one Saturday morning and he was still there that night entertaining a packed house with story after story told in that incredible voice of his..and demolishing it is thought more than two bottles of vodka in the process..but what a really nice gentleman he was. John Huston broke his leg badly during his stay here and it's recorded he incurred this injury after falling from his horse. Indeed he did, but he fell from his horse while riding in the pouring rain early one morning while wearing his pyjamas and blind drunk. I think his daugher mentioned this some years ago and it was witnessed by many of the locals. Such great characters we'll never see again..and Wells....I think he deserves to be described as something of a polymath..great man.
Burton was smashing FIVE BOTTLES OF VODKA A DAY while filming "Where Eagles Dare". No wonder his damn bloody liver finally gave out, when it did.
I'm thinking of all the actors I would like to see sitting at the table with Huston and Burton. Richard Harris, Oliver Reed, Robert Shaw, etc.,. I think the pub would be out of beer and whiskey before the end of the night.
"A wondrous man - it's not like talking to God, but it's so close." - Ned Beatty talking about John Huston.
The history of cinema is Orson Welles. And, his great friend John Huston, was a a master too.
“On my way back to Ireland, I’ll stop in Spain and give him this.” I can’t think of two directors more eloquent, talented or compelling as John Huston and Orson Welles. They were singular.
Isn't it lovely when an award acceptance speech sounds so genuine and thoughtful and less like a Miss America monologue?
The joke was on the audience and the Academy. Orson Welles was at home in L.A. that night, and Huston drove down to his pad after this segment to give him the award and laugh about it over drinks.
😂 amazing
The Academy should give Mr Welles another, posthumously, as a cautionary reminder of an industry's propensity for hounding and demonizing not just one of their own, but one of their absolute best.
John Huston too, just like Welles, was a genius, always reinventing himself throughout his career as a master director.
Welles was not supported in his life time..he was a genius, in the true sense of the word!
Orson Welles should of won all the Oscars!
He deserves to win for Best Director for Citizen Kane for sure. Alfred Hitchcock should win Best Director for Rear Window, Psycho and Vertigo.
He is worth more than the Oscars.
Orson has such a soothing & calm voice that just puts you at ease when you hear it. If he could narrate my life... it would be complete.
Mr "Orson Wells"R.I.P🙏🌟 The Best Actor a Renaissance Man. The Academy should have a Award named after him in his honor.
this is very much a touching moment!
"We need the public. Public doesn't need us" - Orson Welles. 3:26
Orson Wells-An absolute world class individual
Ah, those were the days. Why can't the OSCARs have moments like this anymore? It appears there might have been a montage of Welles' films around the 1:30 mark that has been cut out of this video. What a shame!
Orson Welles was a great , masterful film-maker and a great personality which we will never see again. Was such a strong man and so interested in others. His voice was one of a kind.
One Prestigious Maverick represents the interests of Another Prestigious Maverick.
This is BEAUTIFUL.
This "honorary" award is almost an affront... and the dignity of Orson Welles reaches deep within you.
If anyone ever deserved a statute in Hollywood it's OW.
Same with Alfred Hitchcock.
And Stanley Kubrick
What about Lindsay Lohan? She never got one either.
Academy award winners get to enjoy that great honor for twelve months and then they are soon forgotten when they find themselves eclipsed by the next year's winners. Citizen Kane is Immortal.
Now that you've heard John Huston, maybe everyone will agree that Daniel Day Lewis was "channelling" him in "There Will Be Blood."
The Oscar he was always meant to get.
One that wasn't a competitive award. After all, no one could compete with him.
John Huston and Orson Welles, what genius directors, now of days we have no one, just confectioner boiler plate directors, sad sad day.
Orson Welles is TRULY someone for whom you could use the term genius!
This still doesn't make up for Citizen Kane. Nice try, Oscars.
Exactly. After Citizen Kane, Orson Welles did not get nominated ever again for directing. Shame.
Wells did win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Citizen Kane, but because the film didn’t win Best Actor, Best Director and Best Picture, people don’t seem to realize this.
@@Jared_Wignall Welles shared the Kane Oscar with Mankiewicz, as Huston explains here...
@@philiphalpenny9761 but he still won an Academy Award, regardless of sharing credit or not. Me writing my comment was to illustrate that he’s an Oscar winner, as many believe that because he didn’t win Best Actor and Best Director as well as the film not winning Best Picture, Orson Welles never got an Academy Award. Now, he didn’t get personally nominated again for his work after Citizen Kane, which is a shame. The Magnificent Ambersons got nominated for Best Picture, but that was before producers got their names attached to the award. At that time those specific awards went to the company the film was made under, like RKO with this conversation, so Welles was nominated for 3 Oscars and won just 1.
@@Jared_Wignall The recent film Mank concurs with Pauline Kael in trying to strip even that little bit of acclaim for Welles. I wonder if Orson is enjoying a perverse grin today on the 106th anniversary of his birth...wherever he is!
At the age of 28 he managed to create one of the finest films of all time. If he deserved only 1 Oscar for Screenplay for that film then the world is flat.
Exactly.
He was 25 not 28.
My curiosity, have you seen how green was my valley, the movie that won the Oscar that year?
@@francescocendron Yes. It's boring.
25 years old
I've been down an Orson Welles wormhole the last few days, watching and reading many interviews, articles & essays. In so doing, I've found myself taking umbrage on behalf of a man more than 30 years gone.
The twists of the knife and turns of the wheel have been both enjoyable and infuriating. How is it that man with a blindingly apparent genius could have been attacked with such venom and virulence that there was a period during which he was written out of his own career. I'm talking of course about Pauline Kael.
It must have been some measure of comfort to Mr Welles that the Academy and the AFI rightly honoured him. But I do wonder if Mr Welles thought about the motives of the Academy, especially, when for many years the industry told so many lies about him.
If he were a straight up and down asshole, or he was a profligate budget blower or he had monstrous skeletons in his closet, I'd understand why they'd turn their backs. But in _every single_ interview I've seen, Mr Welles comes across as magnanimous, warm, charming and as humble as he might be self-aggrandizing. Actually even the latter is wrong. There was no balancing act between humility and self-congratulation. He was always mindful of when he thought he might sound pompous, he displayed an immense generosity of spirit and when he spoke of actors in high regard, you knew he was telling the truth because he offset his love of actors with his disdain for producers. I won't ever be able to fathom why Pauline Kael was so desperate to tear down Orson Welles that whatever code of ethics she had was ruined.
Nx Doyle u need to get out more dear god
Nx Doyle I've been going down the same rabbit hole as you, although I don't feel the need to fight Welles' battles posthumously. I just enjoy hearing the man speak. Everything he says is so well thought out. I still haven't seen Kane, another of many classics on my list.
@@FanboyFilms UR WAYYYYYYYYYY BEHINDDD !!!!!!!!!!!
@@ivam6473 I'm catching up. I saw Citizen Kane and The Third Man and even went down the road of "The Other Side of the Wind" and "They'll Love Me When I'm Dead." But I still have more to watch.
@@shane-irish You were here.
We know a remote farm in Europe where Orson Welles lives. Every July, he and John Huston film another six minutes of _The Other Side Of The Wind._ And now here, under protest, is beefburgers.
Yes, Always
Hearst, Hollywood, AND POISONOUS JEALOUSIES are what strangled much of Orson's desire to make many films and not have to constantly scrabble to put the production capital together. This AAward was, of course, WAY long overdue, ... but at least enough people came to their senses to award it to him. he probably used it as a doorstop.
Len Hummel, Or a TP roll holder.
Following the release of Citizen Kane, which Hearst and several studio heads tried to destroy based upon the unflattering portrayal of the newspaper mogul, Welles never made a commercially released film without interference. The Magnificent Ambersons was badly edited and shown in truncated form; The Lady From Shanghai was also altered; Touch Of Evil was re-cut, although it was later restored to Welles vision; Chimes At Midnight had a limited release after a N.Y. Times negative review and his last film, The Other Side Of The Wind, was confiscated and never commercially released, although the film has now come back to the Welles estate and is being completed by Peter Bogdanovich.
I don't think it was an unflattering portrayal. Bill Hearst was just as human as the rest of us.
This was Welles quiet--and nearly unknown--snub to the industry that for so long ignored him. He really was in Los Angeles at the time of the awards, but sent the bit of film to take his place. He didn't feel the need to be present for his own career funeral. "I was hiding out in Laurel Canyon!" chortled he...
And eating every day at Ma Maison
Huston was the kind of guy who can kick asses in and out of a shoot.
I'd like to see Christian Bale pull off his diva strops on a Huston set.
R.I.P. Orson Wells (1915-1985)
What a beautiful classic simple times
Well's Father Mapple in Huston's Moby Dick is one of the great sermon/monologs ever put to film. It's a riveting performance.
As someone who agrees that John Huston and Orson Welles (as well as many other film makers of that era) were gods among men, I would argue that there are still talented figures like that today. Whether it be Paul Thomas Anderson, Vince Gilligan, Martin Scorcese, Takashi Miike or any of the film makers working at Pixar (to name a few). Genius does not come with any single era, although those geniuses produced by each era helps us to better understand them.
I hope Hollywood understood its mistakes. He didn't want an Oscar, he wanted to work, to do what he did best. If we'll ever have another Orson Welles, Hollywood better not leave him on his own like they did to him
Yes, he won an Oscar for Best Screenplay.
He should have won for Best Picture, Director, Actor and Screenplay.
So true.
He should also win cinematography and film editing as well.
I guess Hollywood is nothing but politics like it is everywhere.
Dang. Welles could write a speech (and knock the delivery out of the park).
It often happens that the Academy realizes its mistakes, and TRIES to compensate.
Huston had a great voice too
Welles was in Hollywood when his Honorary Oscar was presented, however, he made a deliberate decision not to attend the presentation. He continued to struggle to obtain financing for the completion of The Other Side Of The Wind, that was edited and released to Netflix thirty years after his death; He wanted to make a film of King Lear, but he couldn't obtain Studio money.
So true!
I can see a bit of Daniel Plainview
How ironic is that John Huston is the main role in Orson Welles' last film.
In 2021 we r studying film studies
While through watch citizen kane!
The legend.... Ow
Lve from indian
Respect, salute u sir
Legandary
Lol Orson welles was actually in his flat 😂. It was revealed later both huston and Welles just went fuck you to the academy for treating them like shit, and they laughed theyre asses off when they realised the academy were honouring welles to look good in the public eye. He deliberately didnt show, and lied about it, and the academy knew it.
That's why John Huston says
"Happy lunacy that really telling it like it is" lmao
the Oscars uploading this now continues the irony.
The honor is not for Orson receiving the Oscar, but for the Academy giving him the award.
The Hollywood establishment saw Orson Welles as a huge threat because he could produce, direct, finance and star in movies. DIY and in an expert way, in a Citizen Kane way. If that was allowed to flourish there would be no need for the industry or the fat cat studio moguls. He said movie direction could be learned in a day and a half, directly from an expert. He exposed the money racket that is Hollywood. That's why they butchered his films in post production editing and froze him out. He was bugged and followed. Attempts were made to frame him in criminal set ups but he escaped to Europe in time.
Orson Welles in 1941: You may not be ready for Citizen Kane, but your kids will love it.
Cinephiles admire it, but it isn't an easy film to "love." One reason "How Green Was My Valley" won over "Citizen Kane" was the emotional factor. "Valley" was more accessible and tugged at the heartstrings, while "Kane" was more intellectually stimulating as an artistic expression. Both great films, though.
Orson was Sublime indeed his cadence and supreme intelligence❤️ Hollywood will never redeem themselves for the Magnificent Ambersons and the cutting ✂️ of his film🤨
Too fucking late Oscars.
Titan Blaximus better late than never
He should have received the Oscar for Jane Erye.
He looks like he has his Paul Masson suit on on. Maybe that's why he couldn't attend the ceremony because he was filming a Paul Masson commercial. "Aaaah the frenchhhh champagne!"
Only the Great John Houston could stand in for the Master Orsen Wells.
Legend 🎬✨
Un premio Oscar y un AFI y sin embargo no le dejaron acabar El otro lado del viento,... Lo que son las cosas de Hollywood
atleast they threw him this award.
Given the animosity Hollywood and industry head had with him and constantly fucking him over, it was possible that this may have never happened
How about an Honorary Oscar for director James Ivory? It's long overdue. 50 years of brilliant movies!
Update: James Ivory won best adapted screenplay for "Call Me by Your Name" (2017).
Welles should have left Hollywood after making Citizen Kane. He should have gone back to making a killing doing radio and theater, two mediums that he excelled at. After a few years, Citizen Kane's mastery would have been recognized and the studios would have begged for him to come back... and W.R. Hearst would have been literately and figuratively out of the picture.
He should have another Oscar only for his brilliant acceptance speech and also another one just because of his name is Orsen wells.
Same as Kubrick with 2001: A Space Odyssey. The academy wasn't quite "fair" back then
The Academy only loves Spielberg, Pixar and Morgan Freeman.
Nothing against the last ones I mentioned, though.
He did win Best Visual Effects for 2001, but that’s it. That was the only Academy Award Kubrick won in his whole career.
Kubrick and Walles at least have an oscar ( yes citizen kane won best screenplay ) hitchcock hasnt won anything from the academy , only some memorial award during the last years of his career
Welles made a conscious decision not to attend the Oscar ceremony at which he was given this honorary Oscar. As evidenced in the new book memorializing conversations with the director Henry Jaglom, Welles couldn't obtain financing for virtually any project involving him as a director/star during the 70s and the 80s until his death. His efforts to complete and release The Other Side Of The Wind were frustrated. He wanted to direct and star in a production of King Lear that didn't come to fruition
What do they call a hundred Hollyweird and Nashvegas producers at the bottom of a lake? A Good, but hardly adequate, start.
How ironic that Welles refers to making more films in the future; he made, "The Other Side Of The Wind" with John Huston as an actor in 1973, however, it has never been commercially released. He made F Is for Fake and a few short films like The Immortal Story, but he never achieved a commercial success. Kane, Touch Of Evil and Chimes At Midnight have all achieved an exalted status among film aficianados.
Wikipedia says: William Shakespeare's play Macbeth is said to be cursed, so actors avoid saying its name when in the theatre (the euphemism "The Scottish Play" is used instead).
THE BEST ACTOR AND FILM MAKER MOVIES !!!!!
I understand that it was unfair back then, but who cares how long it took for him to get an Oscar. This is us 41 years after this Honorary Oscar was presented, still going on about it...
30 years; the Oscar is not just for Citizen Kane, but for 30 years of brilliant contribution to the Industry.
And regardless of the truth Welles spoke about the audience, his audience appreciated and appreciates him just as much as the movie people.
He also narrated that year's Best Animated Shorts winner Is It Always Right To Be Right?
Funny thing is that John Huston was Orson Welles' idol
More so the other way around.
Ahhh....The Good Old Days......
Daniel Day Lewis actually based his performance off of John Huston.
Really? What film?
@@leetorry There will be blood
@@oshaqlaghari9591 Ialso heard that he was channeling Montgomery Clift when he did The age Of Innocence.
Orson insisted that he couldn’t attend as he would be working in Europe and agreed to do a film piece for the ceremony. In actuality he was at home in LA watching the show on TV.
Study his mannerisms while speaking, how he uses his eyes, especially when he makes eye contact with the camera and what he does when he's thinking... he's hypnotic. Then do it for a day. You will see a huge difference in how you're treated... especially by the laydeez ;-)
Imagine getting an Oscar from Gandalf!
I love you❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💋
“I’m not very fond of I don’t go to them very much” Orson Welles
4:11 STAND UP!!!!!!!
The bastards shoulda done it in the beginning . Opening shot of Touch of Evil is epic yet so pure.😅😅😅😅😅😊
Lonely indeed are the brave..
The Academy is usually too little, too late. Welles getting an honorary Oscar when he should have had an
Oscar for best director many times over is ridiculous. He should have received the Oscar for director for Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, and Chimes at Midnight. They did the same thing to Chaplin. He should have received the Oscar for director for City Lights, Modern Times, and the Great Dictator.
He received a special Oscar in 1928 for his work on "The Circus." But it's true, Chaplin was nominated several times competitively, but only won in 1973 for his (20-year-old) "Limelight" score, due the technicality that it hadn't been released in LA in 1952. So, the Academy honored him 3 times during his career.
There's a certain sadness in watching this. Citizen Kane and Orson Welles overlooked constantly by this organization, so we get one of those "Better Late Than Never" Oscars. Hope you guys still stand by your choices like Paul Lukas and Paul Muni over those you thought were losers like Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, and Orson Welles.
True about Paul Muni. So called "prestige actors" of yesterday now, if remembered at all, look preposterous. Edward G. Robinson, the great character actor, was not nominated in a 50 year career service to films.
Couldn't agree more.
...why in gods' name are you shitting on Paul Muni? He was BRILLIANT!!! >:-(
Orsen once said: Show business is 98% hustling and only 2% filmmaking
Yes, he did. But they didn't reward Welles the Oscar for Directing nor Picture. It's consider injustice today.
They also never gave Hitchcock a competitive award. Only the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, which is given as a career award to producers.
Gandalf honoring Orson wells..
He was pegged to by most people but bloc voting by people afraid of Hearst's threats wanted him out of Hollywood.
Does anyone know the name of the theme that is playing at the start of the video when John Huston walks onto the stage. It sounds amazing! Would be much appreciated if someone could tell me the name of the theme :)
+Arthur Vandalay Sounds like music from Huston's The Maltese Falcon
+perpieta no worries man thank you very much for that :)
I think Doris Day is due one.
I miss the times when Oscar speeches were like this. Today they can't grab that trophy and thank the Academy for recognizing the value of their work, they must also make a woke statement on issues they don't even understand and use the kind of "YAAS KWEEN" vocabulary that gets social media engagement but leaves nothing of value to future film students.
And after doing this he steps straight onto a moderate set filled with party goers toasting the evening...
''Mahah the Frensh'!'
Mahaha! the French ! makes is the finest cinema
the Oscars are in that tradition with American films fermented in the French tradition
Now we have Will Smith slapping Chris Rock!
That is the voice of Charles Foster Kane!!!!
the way the industry treated wells is a jock he was a boss filmaker and they shit all over him
Welles and Huston were lying. Welles hated the hypocrisy of the Oscars, and dreaded getting up to thank all the people who had refused to employ him for so many years - so he & Huston made up the excuse about being in Spain. In reality, when the ceremony was screened, he was living in poverty in a rented bungalow down the road in LA, watching it on TV. At the end, he yelled at the TV "Bring it over, John!"
That the Academy should now post this speech to publicise itself is the ultimate irony.
I'm not getting any video either.
Welles was sometimes contradictory. If you listen to his interviews it does slip out that awards meant nothing to him. On the other hand he was always polite, always the gentleman, not wanting to offend. Hollywood could afford to give him awards just not any money.
They still aren't fair today.
Yea Exactly. Hollywood wanted to present Orsons works as their works. Glad Orson had the final say and stayed true even though Hollywood snubbed him in later years. They don't mind reaping the revenue in from Orsons Legendary Work still to this Day though and on. Agents, bleh! More like Satans little helpers ready to make or break somebody.
He was snubbed in Touch of Evil. Vertigo, another classic film of 1958, only had 2 technical nominations. Touch of Evil did not get a single Oscar nomination. Gigi won every Oscar it was nominated for including Best Picture and Director. Both Hitchcock and Welles were snubbed badly that year.
@@laurajones1773 Do you suppose Hearst was behind the cause of all the snubbing?