In a ceremony held Saturday, Feb. 24 at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in Los Angeles, Barbara Streisand, a director, actor and writer, accepted a lifetime achievement award at the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG)

awards. She had joined SAG more than six decades ago.

In her acceptance speech, she paid tribute to the Jewish founders of the film industry — Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer, and Marcus Loew. “They were all fleeing the prejudice they faced in Eastern Europe simply because of their religion,” she told the crowd at the SAG awards. “They were dreamers, like all of us tonight,” she said. “And now I dream of a world where such prejudice is a thing of the past.”