The sibling Bond film producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli have been tapped to obtain the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, writer-director Richard Curtis will likely be feted with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and composer-producer Quincy Jones and casting director Juliet Taylor will obtain honorary Oscars on the 2024 Governors Awards, the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences introduced Wednesday.
The fifteenth annual Governors Awards — honorees for which had been decided because the final transfer of the Academy’s 2023-2024 board of governors, which modified following current board elections — will likely be offered at a ceremony on the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 17.
“The recipients of this year’s Governors Awards have set the bar incredibly high across their remarkable careers, and the Academy’s board of governors is thrilled to recognize them with Oscars,” Academy president Janet Yang mentioned in a press release. “The selection of Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli is a testament to their success as producers of the fan-favorite Bond series and their contribution to the industry’s theatrical landscape. Richard Curtis is a brilliant comedic storyteller whose tremendous charitable efforts embody the meaning of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Quincy Jones’ artistic genius and relentless creativity have made him one of the most influential musical figures of all time. And Juliet Taylor has cast iconic and beloved films and paved a new path for the field. Their profound love of cinema and indelible contribution to our art form make these five individuals truly deserving of these honors.”
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, first offered in 1937, is known as after MGM’s legendary head of manufacturing within the early days of Hollywood. It’s offered from time to time to a inventive producer — or producing workforce — whose work displays a persistently prime quality of movement image manufacturing. (Previous recipients embrace three-time honoree Darryl F. Zanuck, Walt Disney, Samuel Goldwyn, Cecil B. DeMille, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and, most lately, in 2018, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.) The award has heretofore existed within the type of a bust of Thalberg’s head, however beginning this 12 months, per a vote of the Academy’s board of governors, it can appear to be the enduring Oscar statuette.
Wilson, 82, and Broccoli, 63, are kids of the unique producer of the Bond movies, Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli (he partnered with Harry Saltzman), who obtained the Thalberg Award in 1981 and died in 1996. Within the early ’90s, the senior Broccoli handed over Bond producing duties to his kids, they usually have presided over each installment within the franchise since 1995’s GoldenEye.
(You may tune in to The Hollywood Reporter‘s 2017 Awards Chatter interview with Barbara Broccoli right here.)
The Hersholt Award, first offered in 1956, is given out solely from time to time — simply 44 instances previous to this 12 months. Beforehand it acknowledged an business determine who — or group that — has made “outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes.” (Earlier recipients embrace Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra, Oprah Winfrey, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Angelina Jolie, Michael J. Fox and, final 12 months, Michelle Satter.) However following a change to the wording earlier this 12 months, it’s now given to an business determine whose — or group that’s — humanitarian efforts “have brought credit to the industry by promoting human welfare and contributing to rectifying inequities.”
Curtis, 67, is finest identified for writing rom-coms together with 4 Weddings and a Funeral (1994, for which he obtained an Oscar nom), Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) and Love Truly (2003). However the Brit can be the co-founder of Comedian Reduction UK and USA, and his fundraising work over 40 years has helped increase greater than $2 billion and supported over 170 million individuals. In 2005, he co-created Make Poverty Historical past and helped produce the Stay 8 concert events. And, most lately, he co-founded the group Undertaking Everybody, giving sensible assist to the UN’s Sustainable Growth Targets, and established the moral funding marketing campaign Make My Cash Matter, which has helped switch £1.3 trillion into sustainable pensions.
Honorary Oscars are offered annually to acknowledge “extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences or for outstanding service to the Academy.” They have a tendency to go to individuals who observe quite a lot of film-related disciplines, some family names and others not, and a few of whom have beforehand been acknowledged with aggressive Oscars and others of whom haven’t.
Jones, 91, has been in present enterprise for some 70 years and was offered with the Hersholt Award in 1994. He has obtained seven aggressive Oscar noms for work on movies equivalent to 1967’s Within the Warmth of the Evening (he grew to become the primary Black composer ever nominated for finest authentic tune) and In Chilly Blood, 1978’s The Wiz and 1985’s The Colour Purple (which he produced and for which he obtained a finest image nom).
(You may tune in to The Hollywood Reporter‘s 2018 Awards Chatter interview with Jones right here.)
Taylor, in the meantime, has solid greater than 100 movies, most famously 43 of Woody Allen‘s dating back to 1975’s Love and Demise. After beginning as a receptionist for Broadway mogul David Merrick, she landed a job working beneath legendary casting director Marion Dougherty. Her first solo casting credit score was for 1973’s The Exorcist, and subsequent credit embrace 1976’s Taxi Driver and 1993’s Schindler’s Listing.
