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Hard to believe, but it's true, there have been no Honorary Oscar female recipients in 14 years. So far only eight women have been recognized for their cinematic contributions with The Academy Honorary Award: Greta Garbo (1955), Lillian Gish (1971), Mary Pickford (1976), editor Margaret Booth (1978), Barbara Stanwyck (1982), Myrna Loy (1991), Sophia Loren (1991), and Deborah Kerr (1994).
Ms. Lansbury is a perfect and one of the most deserving candidates to be recognized with an Honorary Oscar for her outstanding contribution to the art of film.
Legendary Angela Lansbury, CBE (born 16 October 1925) is an English actress and singer whose career has spanned six decades. Highly respected for her versatility, Ms. Lansbury has been nominated for three Academy Awards, eighteen Emmy Awards, won four Tony Awards and six Golden Globes.
Ms. Lansbury was contracted by MGM while still a teenager and nominated for an Academy Award for her first film, Gaslight (1944). Year later she was again nominated for Best Supporting Actress, this time for The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). Ms. Lansbury's performance in The Manchurian Candidate (1962) in which she played Mrs. Iselin, the cold-blooded mother of a war veteran is not only her best screen performance, but also one of the greatest female performances ever to be filmed. She won much critical praise for her performance, as well as Golden Globe and NBA Award, Ms. Lansbury received her third Oscar nomination, but lost to Patty Duke.
Her other popular films include Death on the Nile (1978), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), Nanny McPhee (2005), and Beauty and the Beast (1991) in that Disney's highly successful animated feature, Legendary actress lent her voice to Mrs. Potts, the teapot housekeeper. She also sang the film's theme song.
It was not until 1964 that Ms. Lansbury appeared in her first Broadway musical, "Anyone Can Whistle," which had a score by Stephen Sondheim. Two years later, she was offered what proved to be the biggest triumph of her theatrical career, the title role in Mame that ran for 1508 performances. Ms. Lansbury's performance earned her the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Lansbury won additional Tony Awards for Dear World (1969), the first Broadway revival of Gypsy (1974), and her English music hall turn as affection-starved meat pie entrepreneur Mrs. Lovett in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd (1979).
Ms. Lansbury returned to the Broadway stage for the first time in more than 25 years in Deuce, she received a Tony nomination in the category of Leading Actress in a Play for her role in this production. She is announced to appear in the upcoming Broadway revival of Blithe Spirit in 2009, as the psychic Madame Arcati.
Ms. Lansbury found her biggest success and a worldwide following as Jessica Fletcher in the long-running hit television series, Murder, She Wrote (1984 - 1996), which was one of the longest running prime-time series in US TV history.
As an advocate for The ALS Association Ms. Lansbury is also increasing the publics awareness about the need to support The ALS Associations global, cutting-edge research program into new treatments and a cure for Lou Gehrigs Disease.