John Huston's presentation alone deserved a standing ovation.

Huston was basically giving the middle finger to Hollywood, and calling them out on their hypocrisy for giving Welles this award, when they constantly set out to destroy his work, and didn't hire him for anything during the last twenty years of his life. Respect!

Huston and Welles were great friends. This presentation by Huston and Welles recorded response are treasure. Thank you for posting this, very much.

RIP John Huston (August 5, 1906 - August 28, 1987), aged 81 And RIP Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985), aged 70 You both will be remembered as legends.

Isn't it lovely when an award acceptance speech sounds so genuine and thoughtful and less like a Miss America monologue?

John Huston lived for many years in a castle not far from where I live in Ireland. Although he lived in a castle he didn't act like a lord or anything of the kind. If you met him in the pub or in the street he'd always say hello and if things were quiet he might have a short conversation with you. Almost every big star of the period visited Huston at his castle at one time or another and they usually ended up in the local pub...back in those days Irish people loved the movies but they would never think of bothering an actor too much if they met them walking on the street..and so you could meet anyone, especially during boozy weekends which Huston hosted regularly. The most memorable of Hustons guests at least for for the locals must be Richard Burton. He arrived in the pub one Saturday morning and he was still there that night entertaining a packed house with story after story told in that incredible voice of his..and demolishing it is thought more than two bottles of vodka in the process..but what a really nice gentleman he was. John Huston broke his leg badly during his stay here and it's recorded he incurred this injury after falling from his horse. Indeed he did, but he fell from his horse while riding in the pouring rain early one morning while wearing his pyjamas and blind drunk. I think his daugher mentioned this some years ago and it was witnessed by many of the locals. Such great characters we'll never see again..and Wells....I think he deserves to be described as something of a polymath..great man.

The history of cinema is Orson Welles. And, his great friend John Huston, was a a master too.

“On my way back to Ireland, I’ll stop in Spain and give him this.” I can’t think of two directors more eloquent, talented or compelling as John Huston and Orson Welles. They were singular.

The joke was on the audience and the Academy. Orson Welles was at home in L.A. that night, and Huston drove down to his pad after this segment to give him the award and laugh about it over drinks.

Orson Welles should of won all the Oscars!

Welles was not supported in his life time..he was a genius, in the true sense of the word!

John Huston too, just like Welles, was a genius, always reinventing himself throughout his career as a master director.

The Academy should give Mr Welles another, posthumously, as a cautionary reminder of an industry's propensity for hounding and demonizing not just one of their own, but one of their absolute best.

this is very much a touching moment!

Mr "Orson Wells"R.I.P🙏🌟 The Best Actor a Renaissance Man. The Academy should have a Award named after him in his honor.

Orson has such a soothing & calm voice that just puts you at ease when you hear it. If he could narrate my life... it would be complete.

This still doesn't make up for Citizen Kane. Nice try, Oscars.

Now that you've heard John Huston, maybe everyone will agree that Daniel Day Lewis was "channelling" him in "There Will Be Blood."

Ah, those were the days. Why can't the OSCARs have moments like this anymore? It appears there might have been a montage of Welles' films around the 1:30 mark that has been cut out of this video. What a shame!

If anyone ever deserved a statute in Hollywood it's OW.

Orson Wells-An absolute world class individual

I've been down an Orson Welles wormhole the last few days, watching and reading many interviews, articles & essays. In so doing, I've found myself taking umbrage on behalf of a man more than 30 years gone. The twists of the knife and turns of the wheel have been both enjoyable and infuriating. How is it that man with a blindingly apparent genius could have been attacked with such venom and virulence that there was a period during which he was written out of his own career. I'm talking of course about Pauline Kael. It must have been some measure of comfort to Mr Welles that the Academy and the AFI rightly honoured him. But I do wonder if Mr Welles thought about the motives of the Academy, especially, when for many years the industry told so many lies about him. If he were a straight up and down asshole, or he was a profligate budget blower or he had monstrous skeletons in his closet, I'd understand why they'd turn their backs. But in _every single_ interview I've seen, Mr Welles comes across as magnanimous, warm, charming and as humble as he might be self-aggrandizing. Actually even the latter is wrong. There was no balancing act between humility and self-congratulation. He was always mindful of when he thought he might sound pompous, he displayed an immense generosity of spirit and when he spoke of actors in high regard, you knew he was telling the truth because he offset his love of actors with his disdain for producers. I won't ever be able to fathom why Pauline Kael was so desperate to tear down Orson Welles that whatever code of ethics she had was ruined.

R.I.P. Orson Wells (1915-1985)

Following the release of Citizen Kane, which Hearst and several studio heads tried to destroy based upon the unflattering portrayal of the newspaper mogul, Welles never made a commercially released film without interference. The Magnificent Ambersons was badly edited and shown in truncated form; The Lady From Shanghai was also altered; Touch Of Evil was re-cut, although it was later restored to Welles vision; Chimes At Midnight had a limited release after a N.Y. Times negative review and his last film, The Other Side Of The Wind, was confiscated and never commercially released, although the film has now come back to the Welles estate and is being completed by Peter Bogdanovich.

Orson Welles was a great , masterful film-maker and a great personality which we will never see again. Was such a strong man and so interested in others. His voice was one of a kind.

John Huston and Orson Welles, what genius directors, now of days we have no one, just confectioner boiler plate directors, sad sad day.

This "honorary" award is almost an affront... and the dignity of Orson Welles reaches deep within you.

Academy award winners get to enjoy that great honor for twelve months and then they are soon forgotten when they find themselves eclipsed by the next year's winners. Citizen Kane is Immortal.

The Oscar he was always meant to get.

Hearst, Hollywood, AND POISONOUS JEALOUSIES are what strangled much of Orson's desire to make many films and not have to constantly scrabble to put the production capital together. This AAward was, of course, WAY long overdue, ... but at least enough people came to their senses to award it to him. he probably used it as a doorstop.

We know a remote farm in Europe where Orson Welles lives. Every July, he and John Huston film another six minutes of _The Other Side Of The Wind._ And now here, under protest, is beefburgers.

Too fucking late Oscars.

Orson Welles is TRULY someone for whom you could use the term genius!

One Prestigious Maverick represents the interests of Another Prestigious Maverick. This is BEAUTIFUL.

Huston was the kind of guy who can kick asses in and out of a shoot. I'd like to see Christian Bale pull off his diva strops on a Huston set.

At the age of 28 he managed to create one of the finest films of all time. If he deserved only 1 Oscar for Screenplay for that film then the world is flat.

It often happens that the Academy realizes its mistakes, and TRIES to compensate.

Well's Father Mapple in Huston's Moby Dick is one of the great sermon/monologs ever put to film. It's a riveting performance.

How ironic is that John Huston is the main role in Orson Welles' last film.

What a beautiful classic simple times

So true! I can see a bit of Daniel Plainview

As someone who agrees that John Huston and Orson Welles (as well as many other film makers of that era) were gods among men, I would argue that there are still talented figures like that today. Whether it be Paul Thomas Anderson, Vince Gilligan, Martin Scorcese, Takashi Miike or any of the film makers working at Pixar (to name a few). Genius does not come with any single era, although those geniuses produced by each era helps us to better understand them.

The honor is not for Orson receiving the Oscar, but for the Academy giving him the award.

"We need the public. Public doesn't need us" - Orson Welles. 3:26

Yes, he won an Oscar for Best Screenplay. He should have won for Best Picture, Director, Actor and Screenplay.

Huston had a great voice too

Lol Orson welles was actually in his flat 😂. It was revealed later both huston and Welles just went fuck you to the academy for treating them like shit, and they laughed theyre asses off when they realised the academy were honouring welles to look good in the public eye. He deliberately didnt show, and lied about it, and the academy knew it. That's why John Huston says "Happy lunacy that really telling it like it is" lmao the Oscars uploading this now continues the irony.

I hope Hollywood understood its mistakes. He didn't want an Oscar, he wanted to work, to do what he did best. If we'll ever have another Orson Welles, Hollywood better not leave him on his own like they did to him

He looks like he has his Paul Masson suit on on. Maybe that's why he couldn't attend the ceremony because he was filming a Paul Masson commercial. "Aaaah the frenchhhh champagne!"

In 2021 we r studying film studies While through watch citizen kane! The legend.... Ow Lve from indian Respect, salute u sir Legandary

This was Welles quiet--and nearly unknown--snub to the industry that for so long ignored him. He really was in Los Angeles at the time of the awards, but sent the bit of film to take his place. He didn't feel the need to be present for his own career funeral. "I was hiding out in Laurel Canyon!" chortled he...

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How about an Honorary Oscar for director James Ivory? It's long overdue. 50 years of brilliant movies!

Un premio Oscar y un AFI y sin embargo no le dejaron acabar El otro lado del viento,... Lo que son las cosas de Hollywood

Welles should have left Hollywood after making Citizen Kane. He should have gone back to making a killing doing radio and theater, two mediums that he excelled at. After a few years, Citizen Kane's mastery would have been recognized and the studios would have begged for him to come back... and W.R. Hearst would have been literately and figuratively out of the picture.

Welles was in Hollywood when his Honorary Oscar was presented, however, he made a deliberate decision not to attend the presentation. He continued to struggle to obtain financing for the completion of The Other Side Of The Wind, that was edited and released to Netflix thirty years after his death; He wanted to make a film of King Lear, but he couldn't obtain Studio money.

Dang. Welles could write a speech (and knock the delivery out of the park).

Same as Kubrick with 2001: A Space Odyssey. The academy wasn't quite "fair" back then

THE BEST ACTOR AND FILM MAKER MOVIES !!!!!

He also narrated that year's Best Animated Shorts winner Is It Always Right To Be Right?

He should have received the Oscar for Jane Erye.

How ironic that Welles refers to making more films in the future; he made, "The Other Side Of The Wind" with John Huston as an actor in 1973, however, it has never been commercially released. He made F Is for Fake and a few short films like The Immortal Story, but he never achieved a commercial success. Kane, Touch Of Evil and Chimes At Midnight have all achieved an exalted status among film aficianados.

Orson was Sublime indeed his cadence and supreme intelligence❤️ Hollywood will never redeem themselves for the Magnificent Ambersons and the cutting ✂️ of his film🤨

atleast they threw him this award. Given the animosity Hollywood and industry head had with him and constantly fucking him over, it was possible that this may have never happened

Welles made a conscious decision not to attend the Oscar ceremony at which he was given this honorary Oscar. As evidenced in the new book memorializing conversations with the director Henry Jaglom, Welles couldn't obtain financing for virtually any project involving him as a director/star during the 70s and the 80s until his death. His efforts to complete and release The Other Side Of The Wind were frustrated. He wanted to direct and star in a production of King Lear that didn't come to fruition

4:11 STAND UP!!!!!!!

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Funny thing is that John Huston was Orson Welles' idol

Does anyone know the name of the theme that is playing at the start of the video when John Huston walks onto the stage. It sounds amazing! Would be much appreciated if someone could tell me the name of the theme :)

Ahhh....The Good Old Days......

Daniel Day Lewis actually based his performance off of John Huston.

The bastards shoulda done it in the beginning . Opening shot of Touch of Evil is epic yet so pure.😅😅😅😅😅😊

Orson Welles in 1941: You may not be ready for Citizen Kane, but your kids will love it.

He should have another Oscar only for his brilliant acceptance speech and also another one just because of his name is Orsen wells.

The Hollywood establishment saw Orson Welles as a huge threat because he could produce, direct, finance and star in movies. DIY and in an expert way, in a Citizen Kane way. If that was allowed to flourish there would be no need for the industry or the fat cat studio moguls. He said movie direction could be learned in a day and a half, directly from an expert. He exposed the money racket that is Hollywood. That's why they butchered his films in post production editing and froze him out. He was bugged and followed. Attempts were made to frame him in criminal set ups but he escaped to Europe in time.

Study his mannerisms while speaking, how he uses his eyes, especially when he makes eye contact with the camera and what he does when he's thinking... he's hypnotic. Then do it for a day. You will see a huge difference in how you're treated... especially by the laydeez ;-)

@J Mason omg so true LOL!!

Lonely indeed are the brave..

Wikipedia says: William Shakespeare's play Macbeth is said to be cursed, so actors avoid saying its name when in the theatre (the euphemism "The Scottish Play" is used instead).

I understand that it was unfair back then, but who cares how long it took for him to get an Oscar. This is us 41 years after this Honorary Oscar was presented, still going on about it... 30 years; the Oscar is not just for Citizen Kane, but for 30 years of brilliant contribution to the Industry. And regardless of the truth Welles spoke about the audience, his audience appreciated and appreciates him just as much as the movie people.

That is the voice of Charles Foster Kane!!!!

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Please upload Best Animated Short Oscar winner Lee Mischkin (completing the 1971 playlist)

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I'm not getting any video either.

Movie mank 2020

Imagine getting an Oscar from Gandalf!

Yes, he did. But they didn't reward Welles the Oscar for Directing nor Picture. It's consider injustice today.

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There's a certain sadness in watching this. Citizen Kane and Orson Welles overlooked constantly by this organization, so we get one of those "Better Late Than Never" Oscars. Hope you guys still stand by your choices like Paul Lukas and Paul Muni over those you thought were losers like Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, and Orson Welles.

I think Doris Day is due one.

“I’m not very fond of I don’t go to them very much” Orson Welles

He was pegged to by most people but bloc voting by people afraid of Hearst's threats wanted him out of Hollywood.

Orson insisted that he couldn’t attend as he would be working in Europe and agreed to do a film piece for the ceremony. In actuality he was at home in LA watching the show on TV.

The Third Man!

Gandalf honoring Orson wells..

They still aren't fair today.

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And after doing this he steps straight onto a moderate set filled with party goers toasting the evening... ''Mahah the Frensh'!'

@dialF4flipit Yes! They even taste better when you're dead!