Lifetime Achievement Award for McMaster graduate Martin Short

Last night during the 2016 Canadian Screen Awards, Humanities alumnus Eugene Levy ’70 presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to fellow McMaster alumnus Martin Short, Hamilton native and Humanities graduate in the class of ’72.

Levy was himself the recipient of Best Actor in a Continuing Leading Comedic role in Schitt’s Creek.

Short was the honourary degree recipient at the Humanities and Social Science convocation in 2001 and credited McMaster for getting him into the acting industry.

“When I think of McMaster I think of four years of absolute new experiences, a separate existence, expressing all aspects of life and leaving on a totally new journey. If it hadn’t have been for Mac, I wouldn’t have gotten into the business.”