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The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to honor several key Hollywood figures with honorary Oscars for "extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement" or service to the motion picture academy.
Lauren Bacall, a one-time Oscar nominee in 1996 for The Mirror Has Two Faces, will be honored. The 84-year-old star also appeared in such works as To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, and Murder on the Orient Express.
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award will go to movie executive John Calley, who has produced such films as Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code and worked at such companies as Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures and United Artists. The Thalberg Award was created to honor producers who create "high quality" work, the academy said. Past winners include Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman, Steven Spielberg and Warren Beatty.
B-movie stalwart Roger Corman, whose prolific catalog of films has introduced such actors as Jack Nicholson to the world, will also receive an honorary Oscar. His films include It Conquered the World, Little Shop of Horrors, and The Raven. (He has also had cameo appearances in such films as the Oscar-winning The Silence of the Lambs.)
Esteemed cinematographer Gordon Willis will also receive an honorary Oscar. Surprisingly, the superb talent has never won an Oscar despite working on such winning films as The Godfather series and Annie Hall, in addition to other Woody Allen works.
All four will receive their awards on November 14 at an event in Hollywood. Organizers of the Oscars created the event to hand out those statues ahead of the Academy Awards in March and ease the time crunch for the telecast of the glitzy show.
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