Separating the honorary awards from the rest takes away from the entire show. But i think they were still planning to televise the honorary awards... it means one more event program for the network. It also means three honorees each year. But unless the honorees are high-profile personalities (like those picked for the AFI Life Achievement), not many viewers may tune in.

Thing is, the Globes have as many award categories, and also include the honorary award on the same evening, yet they can get the show done in less than 4 hours. Why can't the Oscars?

ANOTHER RIDICULOUS MOVE BY THE ACADEMY..IVE BEEN WAITNG ABOUT 15-20 YEARS FOR DORIS DAY TO GET HER HONORARY OSCAR...AND I BET NOW THEY WILL GIVE IT TO HER THIS YEAR..AND IT WONT BE TELEVISED..I GIVE UP...THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING..

Doris Day has been considered, but by reliable accounts has sent word back she is not interested. She wants nothing to do with Hollywood, her career or anything related to Doris Day - she has left that life behind.

This may be a very dense question but here goes: The press release says that the honorees will still be acknowledged during the telecast. Does anyone actually know what that acknowledgment will be?

Most likely they will come on the stage holding their Oscars for recognition by the crowd, accompanied by a couple minutes of clips (for all the winners, not a couple minutes each).

I wonder how many of the overseas winners though will bother to show up just for this.

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Doris Day has been considered, but by reliable accounts has sent word back she is not interested. She wants nothing to do with Hollywood, her career or anything related to Doris Day - she has left that life behind.

I am sad to hear from you that Doris Day would turn down a life achievement award..I had no idea..I shouldve asked you earlier..so i wouldnt be disappointed year after year...other than her...who else deserves one..?? actors or directors?? albert finney??

This discussion is held regularly so just keep your eyes open for next time. Since the new recipients will be announced in a couple months, I'd expect a thread on this soon.

And no, fine as she is, by past standards Angela Lansbury's film career does not warrant one.

So ABC must be really desperate to shorten the show which is fine but now it's getting ridiculous. Why bother handing out Honorary Awards if they aren't going to be recognized at the main ceremony?

Also, if ABC really wants to shorten the show why don't they get rid of that awful host montage/monologue. I know I'm not the only one who finds most of the hosts' duties painfully unfunny. I thought Hugh Jackman did his very best this year, but he just wasn't very funny and he was part of the reason why the show ran so long.

And with all these new changes I wonder if we will ever see clips in the acting categories. I love the idea of past winners presenting actors with their Oscars, but I also enjoy seeing clips of the nominated work. Sometimes those clips inspire me to see a movie I otherwise wouldn't see.

Boomer or aomebody who has a good stack of videos of past shows to put together a bunch of the greatest moments of the honorary awards -
Altman's revelation of his bypass, Blake Edwards in the wheelchair gag, Chaplin of course, Peter O'Toole, Kazan if you must, Hitch****'s two word speech, and so on. And then send it to each and every member of the Board of Governors and all the trade press people who seem clueless about what is going to be lost.

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Can anyone think of any other major award show - Tonys, Emmys, Grammys, SAG, or minor ones like GGs - where they push their special award winners off to the side? Is there a single case of this?

The Thalberg Award, according to the Academy, is the highest prize they have to give. But it isn't worthy of being on their TV broadcast?

Fools.

I think that the Tonys give out the honorary awards either the night before award day, or at least before airtime. Something like that.

If there is any good side to this, at least we will be spared a sometimes-full-of-long-awkward-beats-and-failed-jokes speech. Not only that, but the Academy seems to be pulling any strings they can to make the ceremony air under three hours.

Next thing you know, they'll cut down speech time by five seconds. As if enough people aren't played off enough already.

I am also fine with this ............ it will work better ....... half the time a normal viewer would have no idea who is being honoured ......