Governors Awards

Academy Board Votes Tonight on Honorary Oscar Winners

September 5, 2012 By Steve Pond 41 weeks ago

The Academy's Board of Governors will vote honorary Oscars to three or four recipients on Wednesday night -- and it's probably not Clint Eastwood's year

  

Cheryl Boone Isaacs To Produce 2012 Governors Awards

July 9, 2012 By Steve Pond 49 weeks ago

Marketing exective and AMPAS governor Cheryl Boone Isaacs will join Don Mischer in overseeing fourth annual event for honorary Oscars

  

Governors Awards: A Night for Honorary Winners, and Oscar Contenders

November 12, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

The Academy's annual ceremony for honorary Oscars has become an irresistible stop on the campaign trail

  

Oprah Winfrey, James Earl Jones to Receive Academy's Governors Awards

August 2, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Makeup artist Dick Smith will also be honored at dinner ceremony on November 12

  

Academy to Choose Honorary Oscar Winners

August 2, 2011 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

A Tuesday evening meeting will select this year's crop of Governors Award winners -- who's got the inside track?

  

Phil Robinson to Produce Governors Awards

June 20, 2011 By Brent Lang 2 years ago

"Field of Dreams" screenwriter will oversee ceremony where the Irving G. Thalberg and Jean Hersholt awards are handed out

  

Good Morning Oscar, November 15: One Strange Frenchman

November 15, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

The non-televised Governors Awards hits the web, and Godard proves that it’s probably good he didn’t show up

  

Governors Awards: 4 Oscars, 4+ Hours, No Godard ... But It's Fun

November 14, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

It was longer, more crowded and more star-studded than before, but the Governors Awards is still the most informal, fun Oscar show

  

Governors Awards, Part Deux: Twists, Secrets and That Godard Problem

November 11, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

Sid Ganis on the perils of producing this weekend's encore to the best-received Oscar show in years -- the one that wasn't televised

  

Jean-Luc Godard to Academy: Thanks, but I Still Won't Show Up

October 25, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

The honorary Oscar recipient will not attend the Academy's November Governors Awards ceremony, AMPAS reports

  

Godard Won't Show Up to Get His Oscar

September 6, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

Director's partner says legendary filmmaker is "getting old for that kind of thing"

  

Academy Heads Behind Closed Doors to Choose Honorary Oscars

August 24, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

Board of Governors will secretly pick Thalberg, Hersholt recipients that could range from Doris Day to Brian Grazer to James Cameron

  

Sid Ganis to Produce Oscars' Governors Awards

March 24, 2010 By Lisa Horowitz 3 years ago

Nov. 13 ceremony will be second time Academy has separated honorary Oscars from televised awards

  

Good Vibes and 'Bad Weed' at the Governors Awards

November 16, 2009 By Steve Pond 3 years ago

More random happenings, tidbits and musings from the Academy's inaugural Governors Awards ceremony.

  
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