Honorary Oscar For Peter O'Toole

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Peter O'Toole will be recieve an honorary Oscar during the 75th anniversary Academy Awards on March 23, says Variety.

Honorary awards, whose recipients are chosen by the Academy board of governors, are bestowed for "exceptional distinction in the making of motion pictures or for outstanding service to the Academy."

O'Toole's performances have "ignited the screen for more than four decades," said Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences president Frank Pierson. "He's seven times been nominated as best actor, which puts him in extremely rarefied air for a performer. The board of governors felt it was time for him to hold his own Oscar in his hands."

The citation on O'Toole's Oscar will read "Peter O'Toole -- whose remarkable talents have provided cinema history with some of its most memorable characters."

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