The Academy has announced that Wes Studi will receive a Governors' Award Oscar for lifetime achievement.
No one deserves it more.
No one deserves it more.
An Oscar for Wes Studi
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Umm, I don’t think so, an Indian acting as an Indian hardly makes him a hero.
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Wesley Studi (Cherokee: ᏪᏌ ᏍᏚᏗ; born December 17, 1947) is a Cherokee American actor and film producer who has won critical acclaim and awards for his portrayal of Native Americans in film.[1][2] He has appeared in Academy Award-winning films, such as Dances with Wolves (1990) and The Last of the Mohicans (1992), and in the Academy Award-nominated films Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) and The New World (2005). He is also known for portraying Sagat in Street Fighter (1994). Other films he has appeared in are Hostiles, Heat, Mystery Men, Avatar, A Million Ways to Die in the West, and the television series Penny Dreadful. In 2019, he will receive an Academy Honorary Award, becoming the first Native American actor to receive an Oscar.
The Academy has announced that Wes Studi will receive a Governors' Award Oscar for lifetime achievement.
No one deserves it more.
About time.