007 To Be Honored

[Spock]

Here's someone we all know. What's your favorite roll for Sean and why?
Which Bond is the favorite of Mooters?

...meanwhile this just in...

Sean Connery to get lifetime achievement award
From Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
November 11, 2005 12:17 PM EST
Los Angeles (dpa) - Suave James Bond veteran Sean Connery is to receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, its highest honour for a career in film, the institute has announced.

The craggy Scottish actor will receive the award on June 8 in Los Angeles, said Howard Stringer, chairman of the AFI Board of Trustees.

"Though best remembered for creating one of the great film heroes of all time, his talents transcend typecasting," Stringer said. "His body of work not only stands the test of time, but illuminates a career more extraordinary than James Bond himself."

Connery portrayed the super-spy in six films from 1962 to 1971, and has since appeared in dozens of other movies.

Previous recipients of the AFI Life Achievement Award include Orson Welles, Bette Davis, Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Nicholson, Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep and George Lucas.

[brownjenkins]

connery was definitely the best bond... though i think his best work came later: the man who would be king, a bridge too far, time bandits and hunt for red october come to mind

he definitely deserves a lifetime award

[rohirrim TR]

without a doubt, he was the best bond, but, like BJ i agree "hunt for red october" was one of his best.

[Spock]

How about "In The Name of the Rose"? I found that most intriguing.

[Butterbeer]

yeah the umberto eco (was it?) adaptation ...

though man who would be king is a favourite of mine too.

[Acalewia]

There are so many of his movies I love. His Bond films, The Hunt for Red October and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen are just a few of my favorites. I love the man himself. He defently deserves a lifetime Acheivement Award.

[brownjenkins]

How about "In The Name of the Rose"? I found that most intriguing.

that was another great one

[Falagar]

Connery is one of the best actors and certainly the best Bond ever, if anyone deserves an award it's him.

that was another great one
Umberto Eco's one of the greatest geniuses this century has brought forth; an adaption had to be good. ;) Still looking for it myself...

[Spock]

Umberto Eco's one of the greatest geniuses this century has brought forth; an adaption had to be good. ;) Still looking for it myself...


"Sokath, his eyes uncovered" :eek:

[Falagar]

And what did you realize there? Zinda, his face black, his eyes red, is it? :p ;)

[Spock]

"Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk"

[Farimir Captain of Gondor]

He's the original Bond, and a very good one, but I think Peirce was the best one. *runs for cover*

*pops head out of hiding*

Connery was in some amazing movies though. The Man Who Would Be King was great. He was good in First Knight. He was awesome as the voice of Draco in Dragonheart.

*ducks*

[Spock]

Sean has said he plans to retire from acting after getting this award. He's currently just recovering from a gall bladder operation at his home in the Bahamas.

[Acalewia]

*cries*
There will never be another actor as great as Connery, Imo

[Spock]

Oh, idonno, the Geiko Gecko isn't bad :D

[Acalewia]

And he has an accent :rolleyes:

[Spock]

Indeed! And it isn't easy being green.

[Acalewia]

:D :D