Attention, all you old legends, Hollywood do-gooders and veteran producers who’ve been sitting around wondering when the Academy might take notice of your awards-worthiness: your time has come.
Maybe.
Let’s just say that your time is a lot more liable to come than it was two months ago. That’s when the Academy’s Board of Governors, in an attempt to keep the Oscar show from hitting Peter Jackson-esque lengths every single year, decided to move the honorary awards out of the big show and into a separate event that’ll take place in November.
What AMPAS didn’t mention at the time is that the governors quietly made another rule change, one that will likely triple the number of Irving Thalberg Awards, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Awards, and honorary Academy Awards that’ll be handed out in the next few years.