Angela Bassett’s Full Speech After Receiving Honorary Oscar
She of course should’ve won in 1994 for What’s Love Got To Do With It, but the Oscars rarely get things right. The Academy made up for their mistake by giving Angela Bassett an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards this week, and her full acceptance speech is above.
The Oscars will likely show a few seconds from this event, which also honored Mel Brooks, on their main telecast in March, and here was John Mulaney’s opening monologue: