The Oscars are nongenarians as this year (March 4) marks the 90^th year that the annual Academy Awards will be held.  Caregiving Club’s CEO Sherri Snelling has long been a fan of movies (it’s one of her personal “Me Time” activities) and has interviewed numerous celebrities of film, TV and music about their caregiving journeys.

In her book, A Cast of Caregivers – Celebrity Stories to Help You Prepare to Care, she uses movie and TV metaphors to explain the different types of caregiving roles we play and the different responsibilities caregivers take on.

This month, we celebrate the movies that have shed light on caregiving in all its forms. Read our articles Caregiving and the Movies:

Caregiving Goes to the Oscars (reviews of 2013’s Amour, Silver Linings Playbook and Quartet – originally published on Huffington Post)

And the Oscar Goes to…Caregivers (reviews of 2014’s August Osage County, Nebraska, The Dallas Buyer’s Club – originally published on PBS Next Avenue)

Still Alice – the Movie That May Spark a Movement (originally published on PBS Next Avenue)

Caregiving Club also gave out our version of the Oscars in 2012 – The CAREY Awards. It was a look at reel life and real life caregivers.

1^st Annual CAREY Awards (2012)

Reel Stars As Real Life Caregivers

We also celebrate those Oscar winners who have been real life caregivers:

Jodie Foster

A two-time Oscar Best Actress for Silence of the Lambs and The Accused, Jodie made a poignant speech about caring for her mother with dementia at another awards ceremony, The Golden Globes

Jodie Foster – Golden Girl Shines a Spotlight on Her Sandwich Generation Role

 

 

 

 

Diane Keaton

Diane Keaton will long be remembered for her Oscar-winning performance as the titular character in Annie Hall, but she has played both reel life and real-life caregivers. As caregiver to Jack Nicholson Something’s Gotta Give and Hume Cronyn in Marvin’s Room, Keaton stepped into the real deal as caregiver to her mother with dementia.

Diane Keaton – Sandwich Generation caregiver

 

Catherine Zeta Jones

She scored an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress in musical film Chicago, but Catherine did something more daring that signing and dancing when she announced she had bi-polar disorder and struggled as a caregiver for her husband struggling with throat cancer, Michael Douglas, himself a two-time Oscar winner as Best Actor in Wall Street and as director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Catherine Zeta Jones – a caregiver’s self-care mental health plan

 

Glenn Close

She has been a 6-time Oscar nominee as Best Actress for Fatal Attraction, Albert Nobbs, Dangerous Liaisons and my favorite, The Natural; as well as Best Supporting Actress for The World According to Garp and The Big Chill. But Glenn’s stepped into the spotlight as the caregiver for her sister with bi-polar disorder and championed mental health awareness with her creation of the Bring Change 2 Mind non-profit.

Watch the great PSA spot starring Glenn and her sister

Watch more: On the Red Carpet

And, Sherri Snelling of Caregiving Club has interviewed celebrities at several red carpet gala events

And…watch our Me Time Monday videos

Caregiving Club offers its Me Time Monday videos on why caregivers need “superstar” treatment

And Sherri learns how the celebrities find their “Me Time”