With film credits that include “The Wiz” and “The Color Purple,” Quincy Jones is finally getting his first Oscar. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (A.M.P.A.S.) will present an Honorary Oscar to Jones at the Academy’s Governors Awards event on Sunday, November 17, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood.
Jones has produced and composed an expansive body of work and was the first Black composer to be nominated in the Original Song category for an Oscar. He has earned a total of seven Oscar nominations for his work on “In Cold Blood,” “The Wiz” and “The Color Purple,” receiving a Best Picture nomination for the latter.
A prominent figure with an illustrious musical career spanning seven decades, he has collaborated with Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey and was the recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1994. In 2019, he received the inaugural AAFCA Stanley Kramer Award.
Other honorary award recipients include Juliet Taylor, Richard Curtis and producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, the duo behind the James Bond film series.
“The recipients of this year’s Governors Awards have set the bar incredibly high across their remarkable careers, and the Academy’s Board of Governors is thrilled to recognize them with Oscars,” said Academy President Janet Yang. “Quincy Jones’s artistic genius and relentless creativity have made him one of the most influential musical figures of all time.”
The Honorary Award, an Oscar statuette, is given “to honor extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences of any discipline, or for outstanding service to the Academy.”
By Samantha Ofole-Prince /Photo by Troy Harvey / A.M.P.A.S.
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