My prediction, Meryl Streep, gets passed over again– however, I couldn't be more pleased with the choice, Morgan Freeman. I didn't pick him because he JUST got the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award and I didn't think they'd double-up so quickly, but I was pleased when he got that too! I think that his fifth Oscar nomination for
Invictus really put him over the top for lifetime kudos. Having also received the Kennedy Center Honors (in 2008), now its only up to the Film Society of Lincoln Center to catch up.
The first of Freeman's films I saw theatrically were
Glory and
Driving Miss Daisy in 1989. I've liked him in everything since (hasn't everyone?). His Oscar win for
Million Dollar Baby was actually more along the lines of a "career achievement" win, but it was pretty representative of his work, a solid performance with that voice-over narration that has become a hallmark of his later career.
Link to
HFPA press release.
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