Sally Field to receive the 2023 SAG Life Achievement Award
Ageless screen favourite to be honoured at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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In rather brilliant news, the enduring Sally Field will receive the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award next month.
Field, who has two Best Actress Oscars for best actress Norma Rae and Places of the Heart, three Emmys and a SAG Award is the 58th recipient of the guild’s highest honour.
“Sally is an amazing actor with an enormous range and an uncanny ability to embody any character,” says Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA president. “She has an enduring career because she is authentic in her performance and always projects likability and humanity – she just connects. That’s part of why she has sustained her massive fandom and incredibly rich and layered career. Sally is a massive star with a working actor’s ethos – just keep doing the work, being as good as you can.”
Field first captured hearts in Gidget before cementing her stardom in The Flying Nun. She continued to score notable roles in films like Steel Magnolias, Mrs. Doubtfire, Forrest Gump, Lincoln and will feature in the upcoming 80 for Brady and Spoiler Alert.
The 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony will be broadcast live on Netflix’s YouTube channel on Monday February 27.
Source: Variety
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Beyond well deserved !
A good actress, but also a nepo baby. Many, many others who have been acting and/or achieving for decades without the benefits of being a nepo baby, are probably more deserving.
I had to look that term up. One parent who was an actor. Are you suggesting she hasn’t earned the honour? I expect every year one could argue someone else is more deserving, but it undermines their honour and work, surely…
She has an impressive body of work and won two Oscars so I am sure she deserves it. I think is important to acknowledge the hands up in life some people get and how they’ve been fortunate to have been born into opportunity.I do think people who work harder for opportunities and/or do not have the advantage of having famous parents are worthy of more recognition than people who benefit initially or ongoingly from family name recognition or family association.
My favourite was “Soapdish” starring Sally and Whoopie, her “breakdown” and “Rose don’t hover” screens where the highlight of the film, she really is a gem possibly America’s true sweetheart. A truly befitting award.
Shall we lay bets as to whether she will replay her infamous line ‘you like me, you really like me’?
This is a great choice. Sally Field’s career has been so varied and across 7 decades!
Famous, not infamous? Great line.
oh it’s been harpooned then and for nearly 40 years since.
Well deserved, have enjoyed her acting for years! Such an accomplished performer!
From her early days as Gidget and The Flying Nun to Forrest Gumps Mum she’s been in some good movies and deserves this award ,well done Sally.