On the evening of November 17, local time, the 15th Academy Awards (Governors Awards) ceremony was held at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Los Angeles. This marks the official start of the annual Oscars season.
The Council Award is a non-competitive honorary award. Once upon a time, the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award would be arranged in the middle and late stages of the entire Oscar Awards ceremony. At that time, all the guests stood up and applauded the winners, making this part one of the most heart-warming and touching moments at the Oscars in previous years. However, in order to shorten the length of the awards ceremony, since 2009, the Oscars have changed their tune and created the Council Awards Ceremony specifically for honorary awards, which is held in November every year. However, the ceremony will not be broadcast live to the outside world, and only some clips will be edited and shown interspersed with the Oscars ceremony the following spring.
During the awards season, seeded contestants arrive one after another to increase their presence.
This year's list of winners is selected as always by the Academy Awards Board of Governors, which includes 55 representatives from various Oscar branches plus three honorary directors. The specific winners were announced as early as June. Unfortunately, one of them, Quincy Jones, passed away on November 3, which somewhat cast a shadow on the awards ceremony that night.
According to the rules of the Academy Awards, deceased people cannot receive Council Awards, but of course this is not the case like Quincy Jones. Moreover, Quincy Jones had already won the Hersholt Humanitarian Award statuette as ...
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