For only the second time in its 15 year history there is no actor among the honorees for this year’s select group receiving the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Governors Awards . The AMPAS Board Of Governors have chosen to give Academy Honorary Awards to music legend Quincy Jones and veteran Casting Director Juliet Taylor , the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to British writer/director Richard Curtis , and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producers Michael G.
Wilson and Barbara Broccoli . The awards ceremony, always a highlight in the very long Oscar season will take place on Sunday November 17, 2024 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood. Related Stories Below The Line 2024-25 Awards Season Calendar - Dates For Oscars, Tonys, Emmys, Grammys, Guilds & More News 'Love Actually' Director Richard Curtis Unveils First Six Minutes Of New Animated Christmas Movie; Talks Charlie Brown Inspiration - Annecy You have to go back to the 4th Governors Awards in 2012 to find a group that did not include at least one actor among its recipients.
That year the honorees were documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker, director/stuntman Hal Needham, AFI founder and producer/filmmaker George Stevens Jr.
, and executive and philanthropist Jeffrey Katzenberg. Broccoli becomes only the second child of a previous Thalberg winner to receive the same prestigious honor. In 1981 her father Albert R.
Broccoli was presented the award which celebrates the careers of significant produ.
