Warren Beatty to Receive Academy's Thalberg Award

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March is going to be a good month for Warren Beatty. Not only is his wife, Annette Bening, expecting a child then, but he'll also be the recipient of the Academy's Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.

"In discussing this Award for Warren, our governors stressed his passion for film, for getting it just right," said Academy President Robert Rehme, "and his courage in producing pictures that many other producers might have considered too dangerous to try." Beatty is the only person to be nominated for producer, director, writer and actor on a film, "and he did it twice," Rehme said. Beatty received those four nominations for Heaven Can Wait in 1978 and again in 1981 for Reds. "Warren's is an illustrious career of distinguished films and the Academy could not celebrate a more deserving honoree than this artist extraordinaire," said Cinematographers Branch Governor Conrad Hall.