Governors Awards: Michael J. Fox, Diane Warren, Peter Weir & Euzhan Palcy Set For Academy Honors
deadline.comAs one of its final acts, the current Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted honorary Oscars to directors Peter Weir and Euzhan Palcy and songwriter Diane Warren and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Michael J.
Fox. They will be presented at the 13th Governors Awards on Saturday, November 19, in Los Angeles.Weir is a six-time Oscar nominee, including four as director of Witness, Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and is a leading voice as well in Australian cinema.
Palcy made history at the 1983 Venice Film Festival when her first feature, Sugar Cane Alley took the Silver Lion, not just the first for a Black female director, but any Black director.
Among other achievements she also became the first Black woman to direct a Hollywood studio film with 1989’s A Dry White Season which earned Marlon Brando a Best Supporting Actor nod, his ninth and final Oscar nomination.
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