Jean-Luc Godard has "graciously thanked" the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by way of a "cordial, hand-written note" sent to Academy president Tom Sherak last week.
A couple of weeks ago, the Academy's Board of Governors had voted Godard an Honorary Oscar, along with film historian/preservationist Kevin Brownlow and actor Eli Wallach. Producer/director Francis Ford Coppola will be given the Irving G. Thalberg Award.
In his note, Godard called himself “the fourth musketeer” — Wallach, Brownlow, and Coppola being the other three, of course — and "indicated that, schedule permitting, he would come to Los Angeles for the November 13 Governors Awards event."
The Academy shouldn't count on it, though stranger things have happened.
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