‘This is going to be cherished’: Samuel L Jackson and Elaine May receive honorary Oscars

Liv Ullmann and Danny Glover also honoured on night when Hollywood lavishes praise on beloved stars for lifetime achievementsSamuel L Jackson grew up watching movies on Saturdays at the Liberty and the Grand, segregated movie theatres in Tennessee. Some of the early roles he got in Hollywood didn’t even have names: he was cast, he said, as “gang member number two’, ‘bum’, ‘hold-up man’, and, unforgettable, ‘Black guy’.” But over fifty y