Academy to honor Glenn Close and Ridley Scott at Governors Awards

After decades spent shaping modern movies without ever taking location a competitory Oscar, histrion Glenn Close and manager Ridley Scott volition yet person statuettes from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this fall.

The academy announced Wednesday that Close and Scott volition person honorary Oscars astatine this year’s Governors Awards alongside pioneering animator Floyd Norman, portion producers Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler, co-founders of Killer Films, volition person the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.

The yearly Governors Awards, launched successful 2009, admit beingness accomplishment and important contributions to filmmaking and the question representation industry. The Thalberg Award honors producers whose bodies of enactment bespeak consistently high-quality question representation production.

Unlike the competitory Oscars handed retired during the telecast, the honorary prizes are presented astatine a abstracted ceremonial attended by movie manufacture figures, academy members and awards play contenders.

Close, 79, 1 of the astir acclaimed actors of her generation, has received 8 Oscar nominations implicit her career, including for “Fatal Attraction,” “Dangerous Liaisons,” “Albert Nobbs” and “The Wife.”

Scott, 88, the designer of “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” whose striking ocular benignant helped specify modern blockbuster filmmaking, has scored nominations for directing “Thelma & Louise,” “Gladiator” and “Black Hawk Down,” portion besides earning a champion representation information for “The Martian.”

Despite their agelong power connected Hollywood, some person often appeared connected lists of salient Oscar nominees ne'er to triumph a competitory Academy Award.

The 90-year-old Norman, who began moving astatine Disney successful the 1950s, became the studio’s archetypal Black animator, contributing to films including “Sleeping Beauty,” “The Jungle Book” and “Robin Hood.” His vocation has spanned much than six decades.

Vachon and Koffler person been cardinal figures successful American autarkic cinema for decades, backing specified films arsenic “Boys Don’t Cry,” “Far From Heaven,” “Carol,” “First Reformed” and “Past Lives,” the past of which earned them their archetypal champion representation information successful 2024.

The honors volition beryllium presented Nov. 15 astatine the Ray Dolby Ballroom astatine Ovation Hollywood during the academy’s 17th Governors Awards ceremony.