Actress, singer, film director and producer Barbra Streisand was honored on Saturday with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Life Achievement Award in recognition of her prolific profession and humanitarian work.

The 81-year-old Streisand obtained SAG’s highest award from Jennifer Aniston and Bradley Cooper. She was the 59th recipient of the award, which fits to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals of the acting profession.” She was obtained with a standing ovation and lots of actors in tears. Streisand recounted her dream of turning into an actress as an adolescent in Brooklyn and being in awe of actor Marlon Brando within the 1955 movie “Guys and Dolls.”

“That make-believe world was much more pleasant than anything I was experiencing,” Streisand instructed the gang. “I didn’t like reality. I wanted to be in the movies even though I knew I didn’t look like the other women on the screen. My mother said, ‘You better learn to type,’ but I didn’t listen.”

It was the primary SAG award for Streisand, who has two Oscars, 10 Grammys, 5 Emmys and an honorary “Star of the Decade” Tony that put her within the elite EGOT membership of stars who’ve gained all these awards. Streisand gained her first Oscar in 1969 for her main position as entertainer Fanny Brice within the 1968 comedy “Funny Girl.” She felt the most important connection to that character as a result of, as she instructed the Los Angeles Times, “She wanted so much out of life… just like me when I played that part.”

She was nominated once more for an Oscar taking part in reverse Robert Redford within the 1973 romance story “The Way We Were.” She went on to direct and star within the musical drama “Yentl” in 1983 and repeated the double feat within the romantic drama “The Prince of Tides” in 1991.

Her first Grammys got here in 1964 for “The Barbra Streisand Album,” and in 1978 she gained twice for “Love Theme From A Star is Born (Evergreen),” a film through which she starred reverse Kris Kristofferson. Streisand, who goes from Broadway requirements to pop, jazz and classical music, is the one recording artist to attain a No. 1 album on the Billboard charts in every of the final six a long time.

Streisand’s philanthropic work by means of The Streisand Foundation contains advocating for the surroundings, girls’s rights, civil liberties and nuclear disarmament. She has additionally established a Women’s Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles and raised funds for medical care in Ukraine after a 2022 name with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. In late 2023, she printed her 970-page memoir “My Name is Barbra,” a bestseller that took 10 years to finish.

Streisand accomplished her acceptance speech with an ode to her fellow actors and administrators. “I’ve loved working with you, playing with you and inhabiting that magical world of the movies,” she mentioned. “And most of all, I want to thank you for giving me so much joy.” (Writing by Mary Milliken; Editing by William Mallard)

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