John Ford Award
Clint Eastwood received the inaugural John Ford Award in December 2011. Michael Collins, Irish Ambassador to the US and Dan Ford, grandson of John Ford, and Áine Moriarty, Chief Executive of the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA), presented the John Ford Award to Clint Eastwood at a reception in Burbank, California.
Accepting the John Ford Award Clint Eastwood said: "Any kind of association with John Ford is most Directors’ dream as he was certainly a pioneer of American filmmaking and I grew up on his films. His Westerns had a great influence on me, as I think they had on everybody. When I worked with Sergio Leone years ago in Italy, his favourite Director was John Ford and he spoke very openly about that influence. I want to thank everybody who is here from the Irish Academy, the John Ford family and thank you to John Ford Ireland."
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