Annette Bening honored as Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year

By MICHAEL CASEY
Associated Press

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals has honored Annette Bening as its 2024 Woman of the Year. Bening recently received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for playing the prickly long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad in the movie “Nyad.” It’s her fifth Oscar nod. The Pudding is the oldest theatrical organization in the nation and one of the oldest in the world. Since 1951, it has bestowed the award annually on women including Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts and Scarlett Johansson. Meanwhile “Saltburn” actor Barry Keoghan was recently named as the recipient of the Pudding’s 2024 Man of the Year Award.