The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has announced that this year’s Career Achievement Award will go to the fabulous Shirley MacLaine, Variety writes.
“We are very excited to be giving the award to someone who has had such an illustrious, versatile acting career, and who has contributed so much to our collective enjoyment of movies,” LAFCA president Claudia Puig said.
Maclaine recently appeared alongside Jessica Lange in the comedy “Wild Oats.” The acting legend is a Best Actress Oscar winner for her role in 1984’s “Terms of Endearment,” and has been nominated five other times, four for acting, and one for producing the 1975 doc “The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir.”
“I’m thrilled with the honor by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the recognition and the encouragement,” said MacLaine.
Recent female recipients of the honor include film editor Anne V. Coates, and actresses Gena Rowlands and Doris Day. This is yet another career achievement honor for MacLaine. She won AFI’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
Up next, MacLaine will appear with Amanda Seyfried in “The Last Word.” Described as an “obituary dramedy,” the story follows Harriett, “a retired successful businesswoman who wants to control everything around her until the bitter end. So she decides to write her own obituary to make sure her life story is told her way.”
MacLaine will be presented with the award at the annual LAFCA awards dinner on January 14, 2017.
