Quincy Jones, James Bond producers, Richard Curtis and Juliet Taylor to receive honorary Oscars

Quincy Jones will be receiving an honorary Oscar this November for his contribution to cinema. Jones, in his over five decades of career, has nominated seven times but has never won it. The Academy's Board of Governors will also be honouring Juliet Taylor, filmmaker Richard Curtis and James Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli along with Quincy Jones at the annual Governors Awards. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made the announcement on Wednesday.

Jones, who has contributed to films like In Cold Blood, The Wiz and The Color Purple,and Taylor, whose casting credits include Taxi Driver, Annie Hall, Sleepless in Seattleand Schindler’s List,will receive Academy Honorary Awards. Most honorary Oscar recipients have not yet won a competitive Oscar.

Curtis, the Notting Hilland Love Actually filmmaker, will get the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his charitable efforts. A co-founder of Comic Relief UK and USA, he has helped raise more than $2 billion over the past 40 years. Jones was given the Hersholt award in 1994.

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award will go to EON Productions’ Wilson and Broccoli, whose 007 credits include Casino Royale, Skyfalland No Time To Die.Broccoli’s father, Albert Cubby Broccoli, was given the Thalberg award in 1981.

"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 said in a statement. “Their profound love of cinema and indelible contribution to our art form make these five individuals truly deserving of these honors.”

The event, which is not televised, will be held November 17 in the Ray Dolby Ballroom, just an escalator ride up from the Dolby Theatre that hosts the Oscars every year.

(With agency inputs)