Actor Glenn Close, animator Floyd Norman and director Ridley Scott will receive Honorary Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at this year’s Governors Awards, the organization announced Wednesday.
The Academy also announced that producers Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler will receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, which honors creative producers whose bodies of work reflect consistently high-quality motion picture production.
The Oscars statuettes will be presented Nov. 15 during the 17th Governors Awards ceremony at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood.
“The Academy’s Board of Governors is thrilled to present this year’s Governors Awards to five remarkable individuals whose groundbreaking work has forever shaped the art of filmmaking,” Academy President Lynette Howell Taylor said in a statement.
Taylor cited Close’s “unparalleled emotional range,” Norman’s barrier-breaking career as an animator, Scott’s impact on global cinema and the role Vachon and Koffler have played in championing independent filmmaking.
Close has earned eight Academy Award nominations during a film career spanning more than five decades. Her credits include “The World According to Garp,” “Fatal Attraction,” “Dangerous Liaisons,” “Albert Nobbs,” “The Wife” and “Hillbilly Elegy.”
Norman, who began working at Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1956, became the studio’s first Black animator. His credits include “Sleeping Beauty,” “The Sword in the Stone,” “The Jungle Book,” “Robin Hood,” “Mulan,” “Toy Story 2” and “Monsters, Inc.”
Scott received Academy Award nominations for directing “Thelma & Louise,” “Gladiator” and “Black Hawk Down,” and a Best Picture nomination as a producer of “The Martian.” His other films include “Alien,” “Blade Runner,” “American Gangster,” “Prometheus,” “The Last Duel,” “House of Gucci” and “Napoleon.”
Vachon and Koffler founded the independent production company Killer Films in 1995 and have produced such films as “Boys Don’t Cry,” “Far from Heaven,” “Carol,” “First Reformed,” “May December” and “Materialists.” They received a Best Picture nomination for “Past Lives” in 2024.