Lifetime Achievement Award
MARTIN SHORT
With his dead-on impersonations and characters like excitable loony Ed Grimley and clued-out reporter Jiminy Glick, Martin Short has been winning popular and critical acclaim since his early-80's days with the legendary SCTV and Saturday Night Live.
A long-standing friend of the Academy, Short hosted the Canadian Screen Awards in 2013 and 2014. He has received five nominations and won the Academy’s Earle Grey Award for acting in 1995.
This Hamilton native displayed his talents on numerous television series, specials and TV movies, including Curb Your Enthusiasm, How I Met Your Mother and Mulaney. Recently, he's added dramatic roles to the mix, including an Emmy-nominated run in the legal series Damages.
On the big screen he has created outstanding characters in Three Amigos, Innerspace and both Father Of The Bride movies.
On Broadway, Martin picked up a Tony Award for his part in Little Me and a nomination for The Goodbye Girl. Recently he toured with Steve Martin in An Evening You’ll Forget for the Rest of Your Life.
Martin Short is a Member of the Order of Canada and author of the 2014 memoir: I Must Say: My Life As A Humble Comedy Legend.
- See more at:
http://www.academy.ca/Canadian-Screen-Awards/2016-Nominees-Winners/Academy-Special-Awards#sthash.JajSxDk6.dpuf
MARTIN SHORT
With his dead-on impersonations and characters like excitable loony Ed Grimley and clued-out reporter Jiminy Glick, Martin Short has been winning popular and critical acclaim since his early-80's days with the legendary SCTV and Saturday Night Live.
A long-standing friend of the Academy, Short hosted the Canadian Screen Awards in 2013 and 2014. He has received five nominations and won the Academy’s Earle Grey Award for acting in 1995.
This Hamilton native displayed his talents on numerous television series, specials and TV movies, including Curb Your Enthusiasm, How I Met Your Mother and Mulaney. Recently, he's added dramatic roles to the mix, including an Emmy-nominated run in the legal series Damages.
On the big screen he has created outstanding characters in Three Amigos, Innerspace and both Father Of The Bride movies.
On Broadway, Martin picked up a Tony Award for his part in Little Me and a nomination for The Goodbye Girl. Recently he toured with Steve Martin in An Evening You’ll Forget for the Rest of Your Life.
Martin Short is a Member of the Order of Canada and author of the 2014 memoir: I Must Say: My Life As A Humble Comedy Legend.
- See more at:
http://www.academy.ca/Canadian-Screen-Awards/2016-Nominees-Winners/Academy-Special-Awards#sthash.JajSxDk6.dpuf
