Tarantino, Douglas to present honorary Oscars
gracie4o92m | 11/07/2009
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) –Jonathan Demme, Anjelica Huston, Quentin Tarantino and Kirk Douglas will be among the presenters when Oscar organizers hand out honorary statuettes at a black-tie dinner in Hollywood next month.
Actress Lauren Bacall, producer/director Roger Corman and cinematographer Gordon Willis will receive special Oscars during the ceremony at Hollywood & Highland on November 14. Producer John Calley will receive the Irving G. Thalberg Award, named after a pioneering producer of the 1920s and '30s.
The awards were announced last month.
The Thalberg award, a bust of the motion picture executive, is given to "a creative producer whose body of work reflects a consistently high quality of motion picture production."
The honorary awards were traditionally given out during the main Oscar ceremony, taking place next year on March 7, but organizers decided to hand them out beforehand.
