Honorary Oscar Articles

James Earl Jones, Mary J. Blige James Earl Jones, Oprah Winfrey, and Dick Smith were honored at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Governors Awards on Saturday, November 12, at the ballroom adjacent to Hollywood & Highland's Kodak Theatre. Jones, a Best Actor nominee for The Great White Hope (1970), and Smith, Oscar-winning makeup artist for Amadeus (with Paul LeBlanc), were the recipients [...]

Actor James Earl Jones and veteran makeup artist Dick Smith will receive Honorary Awards, and former television hostess Oprah Winfrey will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced. The awards will be presented at the Academy’s 3rd Annual Governors Awards dinner on Saturday, November 12, at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center. The information [...]

Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson in William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver (top); Don Ameche, Claudette Colbert in Mitchell Leisen's Midnight (middle); Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi in Frank Lloyd's The Divine Lady (bottom) Doris Day, Danielle Darrieux, Joan Fontaine, Barbra Streisand: Honorary Oscars and Women Pt.2 Among the distinguished female film professionals in Hollywood and elsewhere who have gone to the Great Beyond without having received the Academy's [...]

Danielle Darrieux in Max Ophüls' La Ronde (top); Darrieux, Isabelle Huppert in François Ozon's 8 Women (bottom) Honorary Oscars Bypass Women: Part I Among the female film veterans with more than three decades of screen work and who have yet to receive an Honorary Oscar for career achievement are actresses Danielle Darrieux (nearly eight decades in films, and still active), Doris Day, Michèle Morgan, Julie [...]