Earlier than his demise earlier this month, late producer Quincy Jones penned an acceptance speech for his honorary Oscar. On Sunday night time, his daughter, actress Rashida Jones, emotionally delivered that speech on the Governors Awards in Hollywood whereas accepting the award on his behalf.
Surrounded by three of her siblings, Rashida Jones took a second to recollect how her father “knew how you can keep current, keep curious, and keep loving” earlier than studying the speech they’d been engaged on collectively.
“As a youngster rising up in Seattle, I’d sit for hours within the theater and dream about composing for movies,” the speech started. “I used to be all the time keenly conscious of the ability that we possessed as filmmakers — that the artwork we created, the tales we informed, if we have been fortunate, had an opportunity to maneuver folks in ways in which they may by no means think about, to make society and the world a extra understanding and embracing place for us all to exist.”
It continued, “We’ve come a good distance in our business. Once I was a younger movie composer, you didn’t even see faces of coloration working within the studio commissaries. I’m so, so pleased with the truth that my identify and contributions could be included in that evolution. At present, I’m past grateful to have composed greater than 35 movie scores and that this journey allowed me to collaborate with a few of the most acclaimed filmmakers on the planet — from Sidney Lumet and Sydney Pollock to Richard Brooks and Norm Jewison amongst many others, and naturally, my buddy Steven Spielberg, who I produced The Colour Purple with.”
Watch the total speech beneath.
Jones handed away from pancreatic most cancers on the age of 91 years outdated on November third. Throughout his lifetime, he acquired seven Academy Award nominations with out profitable an Oscar. Nevertheless, he was celebrated with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1995.
