POLL: Who Deserves an Honorary Oscar This Year?

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Will Doris Day, Albert Finney, Gena Rowlands or Donald Sutherland be receiving Honorary Oscars this year?

Next month, the Board of Governors will be announcing the recipients of the Honorary Oscars to be handed out next year and it seems like many of the same names keep getting passed over year to year without winning. I’ve compiled a list of the most likely as well as some left-field choices and it’s time for you to vote.  Will Doris Day finally get one? What about five-time nominee Albert Finney or ZERO-time nominee Donald Sutherland? Billy Crystal has hosted the Oscars nine times but has never been nominated himself, this could be his reward. Norman Jewison (Moonstruck) has been Oscar-nominated seven times without winning but received the Irving G. Thalberg Award in 1999.

Last year’s winners were actress Maureen O’Hara, director Hayao Miyazaki (a three-time Oscar nominee and winner once for Animated Feature – Spirited Away), actor/writer Jean-Claude Carrière The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award went to actor/singer Harry Belafonte.

Who do you think deserves one? If you don’t see a name on the list, add it to the comments section.

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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