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JANE FONDA TO RECEIVE
NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW
2005 CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
HOWARD SHORE TO RECEIVE
2005 NBR CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
FOR FILM MUSIC COMPOSITION
AWARDS TO BE PRESENTED AT ANNUAL GALA
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10TH, 2006
PAUL REISER SET AS EVENT EMCEE
New
York, NY – December 1, 2005 –
The National Board of
Review of Motion Pictures will present
Jane Fonda with the 2005 Career Achievement
Award, while the organization has named
Howard Shore its 2005 Career Achievement
For Film Music Composition honoree. The
awards will be presented at the annual
awards gala held at Tavern on the Green
in New York City on Tuesday, January 10,
2006. Actor Paul Reiser will serve
as the event's Master of Ceremonies.
"We are thrilled to be honoring the
outstanding career of Jane Fonda,"
commented NBR President Annie Schulhof."
Ms. Fonda has always been a personal idol
of mine. I have admired her fearlessness
in choosing her eclectic, controversial
roles-from Bree Daniels in Klute to Sally
Hyde in Coming Home and returning to the
screen, after a 15 year absence, as Viola
Fields in Monster-In-Law. And, Howard
Shore...what an extraordinary body of
work, having scored more than 65 films,
ranging from Cop Land, Mrs. Doubtfire,
Looking For Richard, The Silence of the
Lambs, Philadelphia,
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, to his
current project, History of Violence,
his eleventh collaboration with filmmaker
David Cronenberg. Mr. Shore is truly
one of the most respected and accomplished
composers working in film today. The
NBR is so pleased to be honoring two such
talented, creative and deserving people
with our Career Achievement Awards this
year.
Jane Fonda was born in New York City
in 1937, the daughter of Henry Fonda and
Frances Seymour Fonda. She attended
the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York,
and Vassar College. In her late
teens, Fonda studied with renowned acting
coach Lee Strasberg and became a member
of the Actors Studio in New York.
In 2005, Fonda starred as Viola Fields
in Monster in Law, directed by Robert
Luketic. Her subsequent work on
stage and screen earned numerous nominations
and awards, including two Oscars for Best
Actress Klute in 1971 and Coming Home
in 1978 and an Emmy for her performance
in The Dollmaker. Along with starring
roles in dozens of highly acclaimed productions,
Fonda also took on responsibilities as
a film and television producer on The
China Syndrome, Coming Home, Nine to Five,
Rollover, On Golden Pond, The Morning
After and The Dollmaker.
Fonda revolutionized the fitness industry
with the release of Jane Fonda's Workout
in 1982. She followed with the production
of 23 home exercise videos, 13 audio recording,
and five books selling 16 million copies
all together. The original Jane
Fonda's Workout video remains the top
grossing home video of all time.
Fonda recently released her memoirs, My
Life So Far, which was published by Random
House. Howard Shore is among the
most respected, honored and active film
composers and music conductors at work
today. Shore's work creates a presence
so innovative and original that it forever
bears his unique creative stamp. Setting
the standard for evocative and expressive
film scores, Shore creates music that
is instantly recognized and resonates
long past the life of the film.
Shore began his career as a member of
the group Lighthouse, with whom he recorded
and toured with from 1969 to 1972. He
then went on to serve as the original
Musical Director of Saturday Night Live.
He conducted the live broadcasts
from 1975 to 1980. At the same time, Shore
began establishing his reputation in film
music circles, working with David Cronenberg
on his groundbreaking movies. In
all, Shore has scored 11 of Cronenberg's
films, including The Fly, Dead Ringers,
Naked Lunch, and A History of Vilence.
Throughout the 80s and 90s, Shore distinguished
himself with a wide range of projects,
from Martin Scorsese's After Hours and
Tim Burton's Ed Wood; Jonathan Demme's
Philadelphia and Chris Columbus' Mrs.
Doubtfire. Shore's work with Peter
Jackson on The Lord of the Rings trilogy
stands as his most towering achievement
to date. A partial list of awards
for this masterpiece of modern cinema
tells the story. In 2002, Shore
won both a GRAMMY for Best Score written
for a Motion Picture, Television or Other
Visual Media and his first Oscar for The
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the
Ring. Following another GRAMMY Award
for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,
Shore was honored with two Oscars, two
Golden Globes and his third and fourth
GRAMMY Awards for his score for The Lord
of the Rings: The Return of the Kings
and Best Song Written for a Motion Picture,
Television or Other Visual Media "Into
the West."
In addition to his upcoming film projects,
Shore is written an opera based on David
Cronenberg's film The Fly, to be directed
by Cronenberg and staged for 2007 season
of the Los Angeles Opera. Shore's
unforgettable compositions are a reflection
of his incredible spirit.
Paul Reiser became one of America's most
beloved personalities with his television
series "Mad About You." His
first feature screenplay, The Thing About
My Folks, in which he also starred with
Peter Falk, Olympia Dukakis and Elizabeth
Perkins was released his theaters in September
2005. He's currently writing and
producing projects for, among others,
HBO, Showtime, and CBS.
The full list of 2005 winners including
Best Film and Best Actor and Actress will
be released on Wednesday, December 7th,
2005. Formed in 1909, the National
Board of Review of Motion Pictures is
dedicated to film, foreign and domestic,
as both art and entertainment. The
NBR has supported free expression in motion
picture arts for over 96 years. The
organization screens over 300 films each
year and works to foster commentary on
al aspects of film production, endow scholarships
for film students and to underwrite educational
film programs. For more information
about the National Board of Review, log
onto www.nbrmp.org
CONTACT:
nbr@nyc.rr.com
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