Names for Oscar bids don't usually surface until fall, but four people have already been declared Academy Award winners for next year.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) announced Thursday, winners of the annual Governor's awards, which are Oscars presented for a lifetime of achievements in the cinematic arts. Actors Steve Martin and Angela Lansbury are among those to receive honors, as well as costume designer Piero Tosi
Meanwhile, actress Angeline Jolie will be receiving the prestigious Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, given to individuals whose humanitarian efforts bring credit to the motion picture industry that they work in.
Jolie will be the youngest person so fat to receive the award at 38, as the previous holder had been screenwriter, producer and director George Seaton, who had been 51 when he received the award in 1962.
This is the second time that Angelina Jolie has been honored with an Oscar; in 2000 she had been awarded Best Supporting Actress for her role as sociopath Lisa Rowe in the film "Girl, Interrupted."
The AMPAS has praised Jolie, who is an active and passionate advocate for humanitarian causes. She has been known for traveling widely to promote organizations as well as social justice efforts. Among those she supports are the Prevent Sexual Violence initiative, also lauding her work with the Council of Foreign Relations and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Jolie has also introduced social awareness and the promotion of humanitarian causes in her film career, starring as Mariane Pearl in A Mighty Heart, and directing "In the Land of Blood and Honey," a film about a love story set in the Bosnian War.
Oscar 2014 nominees will have to wait until March of next year to find out if they have won anything, but Jolie, Martin, Lansbury and Tosi not only get to find out this early on-they also get their trophies before everyone else's. The awards will be presented at Hollywood's Ray Dolby Ballroom on November 12, 2013.
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