Lauren Bacall Receives Long Overdue Oscar

November 15, 2009
Lauren Bacall finally got her Academy Award, an honorary Oscar presented to the multi-talented actress at special ceremonies last night in Los Angeles. Angelica Huston was on hand to make the presentation to Bacall who began her acceptance speech with the line, "I can't believe it. A man at last."

Bacall was actually the odds-on favorite to win Best Supporting Actress back in 1996 for her role in Barbra Streisand's "The Mirror Has Two Faces," but that honor want to Juliette Binoche for "The English Patient" instead. Tonight's special Oscar will mark the Academy's formal homage the woman who has amassed one of the most impressive Hollywood careers of all time.