After Eight Oscar Nominations, Glenn Close Finally Gets a Statuette: The 17th Governors Awards Are Presented Sunday in Hollywood
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present its 17th Governors Awards this Sunday, November 15, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood. The Academy's Board of Governors voted to present Honorary Awards to actor Glenn Close, animator Floyd Norman and director Ridley Scott, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producers Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler. The Oscar statuettes will be presented that evening, in partnership with Rolex.
The headline name is Glenn Close. Across a career of more than five decades and over 100 film credits, she has earned eight Oscar nominations, beginning with her feature debut in The World According to Garp and including Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, Albert Nobbs and The Wife, without a win. The Honorary Award recognizes extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement and exceptional contributions to the motion picture arts and sciences.
Floyd Norman's résumé is its own piece of film history: he began at Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1956, becoming the studio's first Black animator; his first Disney feature was Sleeping Beauty, and over a 65-year career he contributed to The Jungle Book, Mary Poppins, Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc. Ridley Scott earned directing nominations for Thelma & Louise, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down and a Best Picture nomination for The Martian, directed Alien and Blade Runner, and in 2024 was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire.
Vachon and Koffler founded the New York independent production company Killer Films in 1995, producing Boys Don't Cry, Far from Heaven, Still Alice and Carol, and earned a Best Picture nomination for Past Lives in 2024. Academy President Lynette Howell Taylor said the five honorees' groundbreaking work has forever shaped the art of filmmaking. (Source: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
Source: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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Photo: 图：格伦·克洛斯2024年在 Phoenix 出席活动。Wikimedia Commons 图片（CC BY-SA 2.0）。 / Photo: Glenn Close at an event in Phoenix in 2024. Image via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).
