Glenn Close is finally set to get her first Oscar after eight nominations across her career. The screen icon has been notably snubbed for 44 years by the Academy, though she will be finally acknowledged with a non-competitive Honorary Oscar.
The star is set to be celebrated at the Governors Awards on 15 November alongside director Ridley Scott, who has also notably never won an Oscar despite four nominations.
Animator Floyd Norman, who has worked on Disney classics such as Toy Story 2 and Mulan, and indie producers Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler (Past Lives, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), are also being honoured – the latter two awarded the Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award.
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"The Academy's Board of Governors is thrilled to present this year's Governors Awards to five remarkable individuals whose groundbreaking work has forever shaped the art of filmmaking," Academy President Lynette Howell Taylor said.
"Throughout her extraordinary body of work, Glenn Close's unparalleled emotional range has brought to life some of the most complex characters in cinema."
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Close has earned four Best Actress and four Best Supporting Actress nods over the years, starting with a nomination for The World According to Garp in 1983, while she was most-recently up for a gong in 2021 for Hillbilly Elegy.
With the Honorary Oscar, she is now three quarters of the way to EGOT status, having won Emmys and Tonys, and been nominated for Grammys.
The actor will next be seen in Channel 4 series Up to No Good, which is based on short story collections by Helene Tursten and centres on Maud Oldcastle, described as "a hilariously brusque, cantankerous, ruthless older woman" who also happens to be "a killer".
"Determined to break from a lifetime spent caring for her sister (Penelope Wilton), Maud sets out to claim a long-overdue second act, but when a suspicious young detective (Claudia Jessie) investigating a death in Maud’s building starts to believe there is more to her than meets the eye, Maud is forced to reckon with her crimes, present and past," the synopsis adds.
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