Robert Altman to receive honorary Oscar

By 2006-01-12T00:00:00

"The boardwas taken with Altman's innovation, his redefinition of genres, his inventionof new ways of using the film medium and his reinvigoration of old ones,"Academy president Sid Ganis said. "He is a master filmmaker and welldeserves this honour."

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