Academy Units Governors Awards for Oscar Weekend in March

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences launched a model new March 25 date for the twelfth Governors Awards, two days sooner than the Oscar telecast in Los Angeles.

The event, which had been slated to occur on January 15 until the Omicron surge scuttled plans for a dwell event, will present Honorary Oscars to Samuel L. Jackson, Elaine May and Liv Ullmann, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Danny Glover.

The Academy moreover launched that the rescheduled event, produced by Jennifer Fox, is likely to be scaled down in dimension from what had initially been deliberate.

Since 2009, the Academy has been handing out its Honorary Oscars on the Governors Awards, an annual event designed every to supply the honorees a fuller, additional lavish presentation and to shorten the Oscar current by shifting the honorary awards to a night of their very personal.

When the honorees have been launched closing summer season, Academy president David Rubin talked about in a press launch: “Sam Jackson is a cultural icon whose dynamic work has resonated all through genres and generations and audiences worldwide, whereas Elaine May’s daring, uncompromising technique to filmmaking, as a writer, director and actress, reverberates as loudly as ever with movie lovers. Liv Ullmann’s bravery and emotional transparency has gifted audiences with deeply affecting show display screen portrayals, and Danny Glover’s decades-long advocacy for justice and human rights shows his dedication to recognizing our shared humanity on and off the show display screen.”