director. Favorite films In an interview in 2009, with the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, Osborne stated his favorite films included: A Place in the Sun (1951) All About Eve (1950) The Third Man (1949) Sunset Boulevard (1950) Singin’ in the Rain (1952) Rebecca (1940) Random Harvest (1942) Red River (1948) Stagecoach (1939) The Razor's Edge (1946) This is Spinal Tap (1984) Osborne also mentioned modern films he loved such as Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993), and The Departed (2006), as well as Christopher Guest's Best in Show (2000). Filmography Awards and honors Osborne won the Publicists Guild of America 1984 Press Award. He also received an honorary doctorate from the Academy of Art University in 2005, and was awarded a star at Vine Street on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006. In 2007, he received the National Board of Review's William K. Everson Award. In January 2016, Osborne was given the inaugural William Cameron Menzies Award from the Art Directors Guild, recognizing his 35 years as a film historian, columnist, and critic championing visual entertainment. In March 2018, Turner Classic Movies announced the establishment of the Robert Osborne Award, to be presented at the annual TCM Classic Film Festival "to an individual whose work has helped keep the cultural heritage of classic films alive and thriving for generations to come." The inaugural recipient was film director Martin Scorsese for his work with The Film Foundation, which Scorsese helped found in 1990. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences honored Osborne by including him in their In Memoriam montage during the Oscars telecast. The Robert Osborne Award In 2018, the TCM Film Festival created the Robert Osborne Award. The winners included: 2018: Martin Scorsese 2019: Kevin Brownlow 2020: Leonard Maltin The Robert Osborne Collection In 2021, the American Film Institute launched the Robert Osborne Collection. The online collection features a variety of Osborne’s famous film introductions on AFI.com. In popular culture Osborne made several cameo appearances as himself including on the Cartoon Network animated series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law where he introduced the 2005 episode "Turner Classic Birdman". Osborne also made a cameo appearance in the Netflix comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode "Kimmy's in a Love Triangle!" introducing the fiction 1938 film "Daddy's Boy!" on Turner Classic Movies. Osborne was also spoofed on Saturday Night Live with Darrell Hammond portraying him in 2006 and Jason