Actor, singer, activist and humanitarian Harry Belafonte, actress Maureen O’Hara, director Hayao Miyazaki and writer Jean-Claude Carrière will receive honorary awards at the 2014 Governors Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Thursday.
Belafonte will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, while “How Green Was My Valley” star O’Hara, legendary animator Miyazaki, and Luis Bunuel and Jean-Luc Godard collaborator Carrière will receive Honorary Academy Awards.
Of the four, Miyazaki won a competitive Oscar in 2002 for his animated film “Spirited Away,” while Carrière and Pierre Étaix won for the live action short subject “Heureux Anniversaire (Happy Anniversary)” in 1962.