Dustin Hoffman Salutes Warren Beatty at AFI Life Achievement Award

Dustin Hoffman speaks at the 36th AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Warren Beatty.
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[@Cohodes]

ISHTAR SHALL RISE AGAIN!!!!!!!... such a billiant movie and you can tell by both Warren and Dustin raising there hands in solitude.. just shows you how passionate they were in making the film and how much they loved making it.. if you have not seen Ishtar, you should .. it is so funny!

[@alexaraya2018]

I love that movie, I love Hudson Hawk....there are a lot of bombs that are very entertaining.

[@kingcaesar5]

1937 may have been the best birth year for actors, Jack, Dusty, Warren, Hopkins, Freeman and Jane Fonda. The best years of cinema may be behind us.

[@ATOK_]

So true

[@thelupoistheman1]

"One foot in the grave award also known as the AFI Life Achievement Award." Hysterical.

[@bvkdza]

Thank God he not only mentioned Ishtar but said it shall rise again

[@jeffarent]

Ishtar did rise again, on Blu-ray

[@paparazzi929]

Shirley nodding was the cherry on top

[@angelbeta]

Out of all these clips, this is the best one I've seen so far.

[@jothompson5401]

Beatty and Hoffman classic actors

[@diioriog]

Love the way he walks in... so comfortable and ready to go.

[@Casarzino]

many great actors born in 1937 - Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Anthony Hopkins...

[@neelabhraroy4238]

Danilo Pochini Even Morgan Freeman

[@zzyyxxo]

Ishtar is woefully underrated.

[@rhondafortson5205]

DUSTIN HOFFMAN IS PRICELESS.. A TRUE DIAMOND!!

[@julespec]

"A one-foot-in-the-grave award"... F*****g GENIUS.

[@Bobbinski1971]

What a great speech. Wow.

[@madeleinebelle2105]

After listening to Dustin Hoffman I'm going to buy Ishtar...a salute to Rainman, Midnight Cowboy and not forgetting Warren Beatty.

[@TheComedyfan123]

I love Warren's face when Dustin keeps making jokes.

[@carlhiller9659]

They were just a cupple of songwriters.

[@LoveShonenManga94]

i love dustin hoffman :)

[@FoolishInTheEnd]

1 foot in the grave award!!! whoa too hilarious made my day

[@Jordan781]

3:21 what a smile! : )

[@x3Sora]

Dazzling Dusty!

[@maxmetodiev641]

absolutely

[@sueannwashere]

I love Warren Beatty!

[@lauralunaazul]

I love Dustin, he deserve this AWARD!!!!

[@zeytelaloi]

Ishtar

[@Rouzbeht]

@Mrx2848 Actually "Citizen Kane" didn't win best picture. John Ford's " How Green Was My Valley" did. So Warren Beatty actually does have the record.

[@jchang0529]

"..... And the best friend of Jack Nicholson" LOL

[@gregwatson8219]

Warren. Dustin

[@substitute91]

3 : 21 .. is so funny that smile. ''I am here. And I was here for dinner''. Hilarious. Love both of them Hoffman and Beatty :)

[@okonh0wp]

yeah, she's been out in public quite often. she was in superman returns and becasue of winn-dixie. she's less hot and more old these days, but at least she's alive

[@Mrx2848]

Actually, Orson Welles got the Picture, Director, Actor, and Screenplay nominations for "Citizen Kane" decades before Beatty, but I guess Beatty still gets credit for doing it twice.

[@MikeMJPMUNCH]

@shamanofsexy90 jack nicholson is a big lakers fan and has never missed one of their games and they had a game on when this event was happening.

[@anoobiscooking1193]

Thx for explaining

[@AbsintheColour]

@masterd48 thats right...perfect sentiment..

[@wannabeangusyoung]

his smile at 3.21 is so fucking mischievous it's hilarious

[@manuelpuente7336]

yup

[@iandruke2271]

Ishtar shall rise again!!

[@Pomo4ka1]

what was the nicholson comments about?? curious :)

[@hansnotgruber3326]

Jack Nicholson (Warren Beattys best friend, but also a HUGE LA Lakers fan) missed the first half of the cermony in favor of a Lakers game.

[@lauralunaazul]

@@hansnotgruber3326 jajaja, his best friend? Omg

[@GroovyMoo28]

1:37 is that Chevy Chase??? :O

[@neelabhraroy4238]

eveuschrist yep

[@MrRobison94]

Lol @ 5'6"...think you're a little shorter than that Mr. Hoffman. Greatest actor ever!

[@jingren]

I'm sure he meant in the 1960s

[@NMC21887]

@VICTHEREALEST It's a movie they were in back in the 80's that was disastrous...

[@teeclaire]

Hahaha I love this speech. Warren is truly a legend :)

[@TheOriginalSharkWithALaser]

Warren Beatty spoke at Jack Nicholson's AFI Lifetime achievement award.

[@thelupoistheman1]

What's the song playing when Dustin makes his entrance?

[@neelabhraroy4238]

Babs McConologue probably the theme of rain man

[@lageller]

"Little Darlin'," by The Diamonds. The song is ineptly (and hilariously) covered by Rogers & Clarke (Beatty & Hoffman) in "Ishtar," with guidance provided by their booking agent Marty Freed (Jack Weston). "Let me tell you what I told Tony Bennett: 'Sing songs people already know. That way, if they don't like it, they'll still have something to applaud.'"

[@noorgoossens1732]

Hello, Super Job! detect billowy What's your opinion about this !!!

[@Mrx2848]

@Rouzbeht Yeah, but the only Oscar Beatty won was Best Director for "Reds". Likewise, Welles' only Oscar was Best Screenplay for "Citizen Kane". Neither "Reds" nor "Heaven Can Wait" took home Best Picture.

[@ExodusPessoa]

I second that LoveShonenManga94

[@contact1araya]

ISHTAR RULESSSSS!!!!

[@loveatom]

@DonScoreggia why the hell does he do that?

[@zindabyne]

Yeah but that's just not it. It's a known fact in Hollywood circle that Nicholson and Beatty had been the best of friends even before their careers took off. Hoffman just took a crack at that since Beatty's life long best friend was still to show up at his AFI tribute as he was at the Lakers' game. Just follow the crowd's reaction when Hoffman mentioned Nicholson's name.

[@wannabeangusyoung]

do jack and warren ahte or despise eachother by some chance?

[@jesuscastanares4968]

THE MOVIE, "ISTHAR", IS A SCRIPT MADE BY ELAINE MAY. BEATTY AND HOFFMAN ARE DUO STARS . THE TWO HAVE GONE OVER TO MIDDLE-EAST, AS TWO MUSICIANS, TO MAKE SOME MONEY, SOMEWHERE , LIKE AT A TOWN'S DRINKING BAR . THEN, THEY REALIZE THAT THEY NEED TO ESCAPE FROM A SALOON, WHILE THEY WERE PLAYING. AS THEY DID, THEY HAPPEN TO MEET A WOMAN, _ _ _ , ( A FRENCH ACTRESS), AND THEN THEY THOUGHT OF POSSIBLY TO MAKE HER WORK AS THEIR GUIDE . THEN THE THREE OF THEM ENDED UP AT THE SAHARA DESERT, WHERE A BAND OF TERRORISTS AND GUNS -SMUGGLERS WERE AT BUSINESS ARRANGEMENTS.

[@cynthiarowley719]

Love Ishtar 🎉😂 teammates

[@SarahBogus]

grave award... Man.... Funny!

[@holistic1951]

@kingcaesar5 very well said.since long never seen any "goood" movie.present day cinema is scheisse.

[@abelsincain]

@DonScoreggia He migh have said "Farshstest", which is the Yiddish equivalent. Hoffman is Jewish.

[@lonehorntoad7319]

Hilarious!

[@Jordan781]

Can someone explain the Jack Nicholson thing to me? hehe

[@VICTHEREALEST]

ishtar shall rise again????

[@Turbo9987]

God isn't annette benning beautiful

[@Gintoned7]

Turbo9987 She is both inside and out ❤️

[@lahkarbiraj]

"best friend of Jack Nicholson" 🤣

[@lungflogger9]

this is a roast

[@cactaceous]

Yeah, and when he did show up he was drunk and gave a very short slurred speech too.

[@davidm2321]

Who Set me up Mumbles...lol

[@jaimonjohn2516]

0:29 seeing Chevy chase there remind me that Ishtar is actually a Rip Off a Chevy chase film Spies like us!

[@rye2437]

Both Spies Like Us and Ishtar are inspired of the old Hope and Crosby films.

[@jaimonjohn2516]

@@rye2437 spies like us is more fun to watch

[@Achilles_696]

Room full of skin suits and wind bags.

[@okonh0wp]

Yeah, he was nominated for four academy awards for Heaven Can Wait, but that doesn't mean it's a good film. It's actually pretty pedestrian and I'm sure if the Academy voted on 1978 again, it wouldn't make the cut.

[@HoosierRooster]

I like Dustin Hoffman but his speech was unimpressive

[@okonh0wp]

Beatty was never that good, i don't think he deserved a lifetime achievement award. He was tempremental, inconsistent, not particularly prolific and his work is overpraised. His best film is Bonnie and Clyde, admittedly but he didn't write it.

[@DMalltheway]

Bugsy, Reds, Heaven Can Wait, Shampoo and even Dick Tracy!

[@user-fc2fg8uw3e]

Oh hell no