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Tarantino, Huston, Demme and Douglas to Present Honorary Oscars

 
By Steve Pond The year's first Oscar presenters have been announced, and they're directors Jonathan Demme and Quentin Tarantino, actress Angelica Huston and actor Kirk Douglas.  The Academy announced on Thursday that the quartet will participate in the first Governors Awards ceremony, at which honorary Oscars will be given to actress Lauren Bacall, producer-director Roger Corman and cinematographer Gordon Willis, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award will go to producer John Calley. Demme will almost certainly make the presentation to Corman, who gave the young director his start o... (link)

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