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STAGE TUBE: Angela Lansbury Receives Academy's 2013 Governors Award

By: Nov. 17, 2013
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Last night, the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Honorary Awards to a number of stage and screen stars, including the indomitable Angela Lansbury. Below, check out the Tony winner's speech!

Lansbury has received three Academy Award nominations for her supporting performances on film - the first in her 1944 feature debut in "Gaslight," followed by "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1945) and "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962). Her numerous other credits include "The Long, Hot Summer," "Blue Hawaii," "The World of Henry Orient," "Bedknobs and Broomsticks," "Death on the Nile" and "Mr. Popper's Penguins," as well as voice work for the first animated feature to receive a Best Picture nomination, "Beauty and the Beast."







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