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Barbra Streisand was honored at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Saturday at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in Los Angeles, receiving a Life Achievement Award. The 30th annual ceremony was broadcast live globally on Netflix for the first time.
The legendary actress, director, producer and singer is one of the few people to have achieved EGOT status, meaning she has won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. For the record, she has won two Oscars, 10 Grammy Awards, five Emmy Awards, and a Tony.
Jennifer Aniston and surprise host Bradley Cooper, who remade A star has been born in 2018 (Streisand starred in the 1976 version), he presented Streisand with her trophy. After a montage showcasing his career spanning more than six decades, he gave an inspiring speech that earned him a standing ovation.
“I remember dreaming of being an actress when I was a teenager, sitting on my bed in Brooklyn with a pint of iced coffee,” she said. She had an epiphany during Boys and dolls. “Everything was so beautiful on that screen.” Her first crush was movie star Marlon Brando. “I wanted to be the one he fell in love with. That imaginary world was much more pleasant than anything he was experiencing. “I didn’t like reality.”
Streisand said that although she didn’t look like the other women she saw on screen and her mother told her she should learn to write, luckily she didn’t listen. Among the people he thanked were director William Wyler and cinematographer Harry Stradling from his first film. funny girl, who asked him for his opinion and adopted it. “They never looked down on me… And it set the tone for my entire career.”
He added: “It is truly a privilege to be part of this profession. For a couple of hours, people can sit in a theater and escape from their own problems. What an idea, moving images on a screen. And I can’t help but think about the people who built this industry. Ironically, they were also escaping their own problems.”
He named many of the early men who established the film industry and who escaped prejudice in Western Europe thanks to their religion. “They were dreamers like all of us tonight. And now I dream of a world in which those prejudices are a thing of the past,” he stated.
“Barbra Streisand is an icon and an incomparable talent, a force of nature who has seamlessly woven her brilliance into the fabric of our industry,” SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher said in a statement. “From her early days captivating audiences on Broadway to her unforgettable roles in such film classics as ‘Funny Girl,’ ‘The Way We Were’ and ‘A Star Is Born,’ Barbra’s ability to inhabit her characters with authenticity is nothing short of less than extraordinary. “
