Friday Afternoon Video: The night when Lauren Bacall received an honorary Academy Award

In 2009, 12 years after she shockingly lost the supporting actress Oscar to Juliet Binoche, screen legend Lauren Bacall was at last presented with an Academy Award.

Bacall had received her only one Oscar nod in her nearly 70 years of making movies, for The Mirror Has Two Faces, but she had a stellar movie career that began working for Howard Hawks in 1944’s To Have and Have Not and in later years included working for Lars Van Trier in the films Dogville and Manderlay.

Angelica Huston presented the Oscar which was fitting since Bacall was on location in Africa for the filming of The African Queen when her father, John Huston , received word of Angelica’s birth.

Bacall’s speech here seems off the cuff and for that reason, she forgot to mention her son Sam Robards whose father was the great actor Jason Robards. She later said in an interview that it pained her to even look at the award after that because she had not mentioned her younger son (she had a son and daughter with Humphrey Bogart).

Hopefully she eventually forgave herself and was able to enjoy the prize.