Spike Lee and Gena Rowlands to receive honourary Oscars

Filmmaker Spike Lee and actresses Debbie Reynolds and Gena Rowlands are to be presented with special prizes by Hollywood's Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The group announced Thursday it will bestow upon Lee and Rowlands honorary Oscars, while Reynolds will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the academy's 7th annual Governors Awards ceremony.

The event is to take place Nov. 14 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center in Los Angeles.

"The board is proud to recognize our honorees' remarkable contributions at this year's Governors Awards," Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs said in a statement. "We'll be celebrating their achievements with the knowledge that the work they have accomplished -- with passion, dedication and a desire to make a positive difference -- will also enrich future generations."

 Films as Director, Scriptwriter, and Editor:

1977

    Last Hustle in Brooklyn (Super-8 short)
1980

    The Answer (short)
1981

    Sarah (short)
1982

    Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (+ role, pr)
1986

    She's Gotta Have It (+ role as Mars Blackmon, pr)
1988

    School Daze (+ role as Half Pint, pr)
1989

    Do the Right Thing (+ role as Mookie, pr)
1990

    Mo' Better Blues (+ role as Giant)
1991

    Jungle Fever (+ role as Cyrus, pr)
1992

    Malcolm X (+ role as Shorty, pr)
1994

    Crooklyn (+ role as Snuffy, pr)
1995

    Clockers (+ role as Chucky)
1996

    Girl 6 (+ role as Jimmy, pr); Get on the Bus (+ exec pr)
1997

    4 Little Girls
1998

    He Got Game (+ pr); Freak
1999

    Summer of Sam (+ role as John Jeffries, pr)
2000

    The Original Kings of Comedy ; Bamboozled