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Today, The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences- "The Academy" to its friends-announced a batch of recipients for honorary Oscars that will be given to the Governors Awards in October, and they're all good picks. The first is Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, who holds the honor of being nominated for the Best Director Academy Award (for 1977's Seven Beauties). Then there's Cherokee-American actor Wes Studi, best known for appearing in Heat and The Last Of The Mohicans, and '80s icon Geena Davis-who does already have an Oscar, though the Academy's website implies that this honorary Oscar has more to do with her work. Finally, there's David Lynch, who has received a bunch of Oscar nominations from movies like The Elephant Man and Blue Velvet, with the Academy write-up specifically mentioning his dedicated cult following and his work making art and music outside of movies.
Once again, these people will be getting their honorary statues later this year.
[via[viaPitchfork]
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