Julie Andrews wins AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, 'The Sound of Music' cast reunites

On the evening of June 9, local time, 86-year-old actress Julie Andrews received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute (AFI) at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. This is her second award following the 2019 Venice Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award.

Julie Andrews takes the stage to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.

In fact, this award was announced as early as 2019. The award ceremony was originally scheduled to be held in the spring of 2020, but it was repeatedly postponed due to the well-known epidemic reasons. The old drama bone, the first time is two years. It is no wonder that Bob Gazzale, president of the American Film Institute who presided over the awards ceremony, laughed at himself as soon as he came up: "Welcome to the 48th, 49th and 50th American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Awards. ceremony."
Perhaps the highlight of the ceremony was the five actors who played the daughter of Colonel Von Trapp in "The Sound of Music" before the official awards ceremony and sang the well-known "Dorami" on stage. The young actors of the year are now more than a few years old. Charmin Carr, who played the eldest daughter, Lisey, and Heather Menzies-Urik, who played the second daughter, Louisa, passed away a few years ago, so only Brigitte was left to perform together that night. Angela Cartwright, Duane Chase as Coote, Nicholas Hammond as Frederick, Kim Karrat as Greta and Debbie Turner as Marta Five bit. Combined with Christopher Plummer, who played Colonel von Trapp, who died last February, three of "The Sound of Music"'s nine protagonists have died.

Three of the nine protagonists in "The Sound of Music" have died.

After one song was sung, film stars Jane Seymour, Dick Van Dyke, Steve Carell, singer Gwen Stefani, who had worked with Julie Andrews in various ways, also followed suit. Take the stage and pay tribute to her in various ways. And after actress Cynthia Erivo sang "Edelweiss", it was Julie Andrews' turn to accept the award. In her acceptance speech, she did not forget to thank all the people behind the scenes who have helped her since filming. “To make a movie, it takes a lot of people to work together. My husband, Blake Edwards, has always hated the term 'film industry'. He has always believed that film is an art form, from start to finish That's how it should be."

Julie Andrews (centre) reunited with the Von Trapp children.

Julie Andrews, who was born in England in 1935, is now not only tough and clear, but her acting career has never slowed down. During the epidemic, she, who lived in the small town of Sag Harbor in New York State, simply took advantage of the opportunity of being reclusive during this time to complete the creation of three children's books with her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton, and also opened the book. The podcast "Jolie's Library" and did narration work on the episode "Bridgeton" at home.
In the second half of this year, the children's book "The First Notes: The Story of Do, Re, Mi" that she and her daughter completed during the epidemic will be published. The protagonist of the story is the Italian monk Guido D'Arezzo who lived more than a thousand years ago, the inventor of the stave, and the musical notation composed of Doremi's instigation of Lassi was actually also created by him. Thinking of Julie Andrews' singing in "The Sound of Music", it is not difficult to guess why she thought of introducing Guido Darezzo to young readers.

Julie Andrews and daughter Emma's children's book The Earliest Notes: The Story of Doremi.

In the past two decades, Andrews and his daughter have jointly created more than 30 children's books, involving fairy tales, poetry, popular science and other fields, and many of them are illustrated by Andrews' ex-husband and Emma's father. Tony Walton handles it. Walton, who won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, and Andrews are childhood sweethearts who have known each other since childhood. Although the marriage only lasted for nine years, after the two divorced, Andrews and the famous director Blake Edwards After the union, they are still friends. And these books completed by the three of them together have become one of the fondest memories left by Tony Walton, who passed away in March this year, to their mother and daughter.