This is true:

On last night's BAFTAs, Eva Mendes was presenting the Rising Star Award to the year's most promising newcomer in film.  How this translated into a victory for Shia LeBoeuf, I'll never know, but in her presentation speech, Eva revealed that the award was started in memory of Mary Selway, a much-respected casting director who, it seems, discovered oodles of new talent.

I, however, had the volume turned down and the closed-captioning turned on (these speeches make me cringe, so they're better off silent), and was therefore genuinely impressed to learn that, according to the typist, the Rising Star Award "was founded by Monica Seles."

I've always wondered what she was doing since she retired.