MUMBAI: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will honour Lauren Bacall, producer-executive John Calley, producer-director Roger Corman and Gordon Willis at the inaugural Governors Awards event on 14 November.

While Calley will receive the Irving G. Thalbergh Memorial Award, Bacall, Corman and Willis will be presented with honorary awards.

For the first time this year the Academy‘s honorary awards will be handed out at the new event in November.

While the awards will be acknowledged during the Oscarcast on 7 March, the show won‘t devote the same amount of time to toasting the honorees on air as in previous years.

The Academy‘s rules allow as many as four honorees per year, although most years the Academy‘s board of governors hasn‘t chosen to single out that many individuals.