Inaugural Legacy Award to actor and director Lee Grant

Pioneering actress, director and political activist Lee Grant discusses her life and career. Highlights include her early success as an Oscar® nominee for 1951’s Detective Story (opposite Kirk Douglas); her refusal to testify against her husband, playwright Arnold Manoff, before the House Un-American Activities Committee during the infamous McCarthy era; her years in the creative wilderness after being blacklisted; her return to stardom on TV’s Peyton Place, for which she won an Emmy; an Oscar®-winning supporting role in Shampoo; and her groundbreaking work directing documentaries and top-rated TV movies that tackled complex social issues.