James L. Brooks
Director
Los Angeles, USA
He doesn’t exactly speak with a brogue. But James L. Brooks is all Irish as far as the U.S.-Ireland Alliance is concerned.
The group is feting the Oscar- and Emmy-winning multihyphenate during its third annual Oscar Wilde: Honoring the Irish in Film pre-Academy Awards party — the first non-Irish person to capture that distinction. Ireland natives Fiona Shaw and Colm Meaney have also been tapped for honors.
“For someone with identity issues, it’s great to be an honorary anything,” quips Brooks, who describes himself as something of a mutt, with a Russian/Eastern European Jewish pedigree.