Jane Fonda honoured by Hollywood stars
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Actresses including Meryl Streep, Sally Field, Sandra Bullock and Cameron Diaz saluted the 76-year-old Oscar-winner at Thursday's event in Hollywood.
"I'm so happy to add another woman's name to the list," she said.
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Fonda's brother, Easy Rider star Peter Fonda, said "Jane, I've never been prouder of you, and I know Dad is too."
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Their late father, actor Henry Fonda, was an Oscar-winner aged 76 for the 1981 film On Golden Pond and received the AFI award in 1978.
Presenting the honour to Jane Fonda, actor Michael Douglas said: "Jane, you are true film royalty, not through birth, but through your talent."
![Sally Field, Cameron Diaz and Meryl Streep](http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/75342000/jpg/_75342590_actresses_getty.jpg)
Fonda, nominated for seven Academy awards, has won two Oscars for 1971's Klute and 1978's Coming Home.
Fellow Oscar-winner Meryl Streep, who made her film debut opposite Fonda in 1977's Julia, said of her initial meeting with the star: "She had an almost feral alertness, like this bright blue attentiveness to everything around her.
Sally Field added: "She brought this new kind of raw sexuality, of gritty innocent honesty, vulnerable to the core - and I had never seen anything like it."
![Emily Mortimer](http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/75342000/jpg/_75342584_75342583.jpg)
![Jeff Daniels](http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/75342000/jpg/_75342586_75342585.jpg)
There were moments of lightness during the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre, as actor Jeff Daniels, one of Fonda co-stars in the HBO series The Newsroom, sang a tribute to the actress, offering lyrics about her "abs, buns and thighs" as one of her exercise videos played on a screen behind him.
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And comic actress Wanda Sykes took the stage dress in a silver parody of the outfit worn by Fonda in her 1968 film Barbarella, directed by her then-husband Roger Vadim.
As she accepted the award, Fonda offered some advice on career longevity for the roomful of celebrities gathered: "Ask questions, stay curious. It's much more important to be interested than to be interesting.
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