None of this year's five honorees have previously been recognized with a competitive Oscar. Close has been nominated eight times, Scott four and Vachon and Koffler once.
the 55 governors who served on the Academy’s board during the 2025-2026 term , including actress Marlee Matlin; directors Ava DuVernay and Jason Reitman; executives Pam Abdy, Peter Kujawski and Hannah Minghella; composer Carter Burwell; producer Jason Blum and writer Larry Karaszewski — will be fêted at a black-tie ceremony at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 15.
“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 in a statement. “Throughout her extraordinary body of work, Glenn Close’s unparalleled emotional range has brought to life some of the most complex characters in cinema. Floyd Norman is the legendary animator who has broken barriers and inspired generations of artists over his remarkable career.
Sir Ridley Scott is a true visionary whose decades-long legacy has left an immeasurable impact on global cinema and culture. And Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler play a central role in American independent cinema, championing bold, ambitious and distinctive storytelling. ” The board annually bestows honorary awards for lifetime achievement. On occasion, it also chooses to present the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, which recognizes the achievements of a creative producer and/or executive and/or the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, celebrating remarkable service to others . Each of these honors now comes in the form of an Oscar statuette.
Close, 79, has received eight Oscar nominations for performances, more than all but three other actresses dead or alive — Meryl Streep , Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis — and each of them won multiple times. Two actresses have received the same number of Oscar noms as Close — Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett — and both won at least once.
Close, however, has never won, placing her in a tie with Peter O’Toole for the record of most acting noms without a win. O’Toole, however, received an honorary Oscar in 2002, and is now dead, so Close is in sole possession of the undesirable record for living person with the most acting Oscar noms without a win. It’s all kind of crazy, considering the length of her film career, variety of her film parts and number of her memorable performances.
Her noms — which included five in a span of just seven years, something matched only by Greer Garson, Davis, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Streep — are equally split between leading performances , many of them landmarks of cinematic achievement. , winning nine , but he has never taken home a statuette.
BAFTA awarded him with two high honors for career achievement: its Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award in 1994 and its Fellowship in 2018. Vachon, 63, and Koffler, 60, are two of the most distinguished producers in the history of American independent film.
In 1995, they founded the New York-based independent production company Killer Films, landmark releases of which have included all 10 feature-length films that have been directed by Todd Haynes — among them . Vachon, who is the more public-facing of the duo and has been nicknamed “the Queen of New Queer Cinema,” is such a fixture of the indie scene that she was cheekily but lovingly referenced alongside Spike Lee, Michael Moore and Richard Linklater in the title of the classic 1996 tomeA Killer LifeThe Hollywood Reporter is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2026 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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