The Governors Award Dinner

The Wrap’s Steve Pond gets some confirmation names for the upcoming Governors award and warns that it is a risky endeavor — a dinner, not a TV show, and big names have promised to attend:

I‚Äôve confirmed that Jack Nicholson, Steven Spielberg, Alec Baldwin and Peter Fonda will join a handful of previously announced participants — including Tom Hanks, Kirk Douglas, Annette Bening and Quentin Tarantino — in saluting honorary Oscar winners Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman and Gordon Willis and Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient John Calley.

Stars and legends will walk the red carpet, shiny new Academy Awards statuettes will be handed out … and it’ll take place in front of the smallest audience to see Oscars bestowed in more than half acentury.

Even though not seeing Lauren Bacall take the stage (unless there is good video), Corman is someone for whom this award is made, though. He’s a director who really has left a legacy behind him, inspiring dozens, if not hundreds, of filmmakers. His films were never Oscar-friendly and thank God for that. Nonetheless, seeing the two of them get these would have maybe been the highlight of the night.¬† But we Oscarwatchers certainly aren’t the norm — we spend a whole year ruminating on the one night – every minute of it matters.