It was also given three
Honorary Awards before the Foreign Language Film category was created in 1956.
Not exact matches
Before she died four years later, USM's most famous donor received acclaim and honors including the Presidential Citizens Medal — the United States» highest civilian
award — and
honorary doctorates from USM and Harvard.
Two months after his death, Robinson was
awarded an
honorary Oscar «for his outstanding contribution to motion pictures,» having been notified of the honor
before he died.
It yielded his fifth and final fruitless Best Director Oscar nomination, leaving him to accept an
honorary award a few years
before his 1982 death.
Japan has submitted 63 times, every year since the inception of the Foreign Language Film
award in 1951 except 1976 and was
awarded three times
before that with an
Honorary Oscar.
However like Hitchcock the Academy did honour his work with one of their separate «
honorary»
awards just
before his death in 2006 for a «career that has repeatedly reinvented the art form and inspired filmmakers and audiences alike».
Before Cotter's speech,
honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees were
awarded to Shepard Fairey, Alison Knowles (Pratt alumna, B.F.A. Illustration» 56), and James Turrell.