Academy Honorary Award

The Academy Honorary Award – instituted in 1950 for the 23rd Academy Awards (previously called the Special Award, which was first presented at the 1st Academy Awards in 1929) – is given annually by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

[1][2] Unless otherwise specified, Honorary Award recipients receive the same gold Oscar statuettes received by winners of the competitive Academy Awards.

[3] Unlike the Special Achievement Award instituted in 1972, those on whom the Academy confers its Honorary Award do not have to meet "the Academy's eligibility year and deadline requirements".

[4] Like the Special Achievement Award, the Special Award and Honorary Award have been used to reward significant achievements of the year that did not fit in existing categories, subsequently leading the Academy to establish several new categories, and to honor exceptional career achievements, contributions to the motion picture industry, and service to the Academy.

Bob Hope was honored on four separate occasions.

Charlie Chaplin received this award twice in 1927/28 and 1971.
Walt Disney holds the record for most Oscar nominations (59) and wins (22) . He received four Honorary Awards in addition to those wins.
Shirley Temple received the first Juvenile Award , in the form of a miniature statuette.
D. W. Griffith directed many silent classics won this award in 1935
Mickey Rooney received two: a Juvenile Award in 1938, and the Honorary Award in 1982.
Judy Garland received her Juvenile Award for the 1939 films The Wizard of Oz and Babes in Arms .
Bob Hope was the recipient of five Honorary Awards (one being the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award ), between being an actor, Oscars host, etc.
Ernst Lubitsch , a 1946 recipient
Laurence Olivier , 1946, 1979 recipient
Fred Astaire , 1949 and 1978 recipient
Gene Kelly , 1951, recipient
Louis B. Mayer , 1950 recipient
Cecil B. DeMille was given two Honorary Awards in his career (one being the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award ).
Harold Lloyd , 1952 recipient
Buster Keaton , 1959 recipient
Stan Laurel , 1960 recipient
Cary Grant , 1969 recipient
Orson Welles , 1970 recipient
Edward G. Robinson won posthumously, 1972
Groucho Marx , 1973 recipient
James Stewart , 1984 recipient
Akira Kurosawa , 1989 recipient
Sophia Loren , 1990 recipient
Satyajit Ray , 1991 recipient
Federico Fellini , 1992 recipient
Sidney Poitier , 2002 recipient
Peter O'Toole , 2002 recipient
Sidney Lumet , 2004 recipient
Robert Altman , 2005 recipient
Jean-Luc Godard , 2010 recipient.
James Earl Jones , 2011 recipient
Angela Lansbury , 2013 recipient
Steve Martin , 2013 recipient
Hayao Miyazaki , 2014 recipient
Spike Lee , 2015 recipient
Agnès Varda , 2017 recipient
Cicely Tyson , 2018 recipient
David Lynch , 2019 recipient
Samuel L. Jackson , 2021 recipient
Elaine May , 2021 recipient