30K views · 3K reactions | A look back at Angela Lansbury receiving her Honorary Oscar at the 2013 Governors Awards. | The Academy | Facebook

817K views · 10K reactions | Charlie Chaplin returned to the United States for the first time in over a decade to accept his honorary Oscar in 1972. He received a 12-minute long standing ovation, the longest in Oscar history. | The Academy | Facebook

265K views · 19K reactions | #TomCruise delivers an emotional speech as he accepts an honorary Oscar at the 2025 Governors Awards: “Making films is not what I do. It is who I am.” https://variety.com/2025/awards/news/tom-cruise-honorary-oscar-speech-1236583348/ | Variety | Facebook

“I wish I could say thank you to all of the characters that I've played, thank them for using their lives to inform my life.” Donald Sutherland accepting an Honorary Award at the 2017 Governors Awards. | The Academy

“The magic of the movies enraptured me when I was a child; as I totter into antiquity, movie magic enraptures me still.” - Peter O’Toole, accepting his Honorary Oscar | The Academy

“I've spent most of my life just focused on the road ahead, not looking back. But now tonight, I'm seeing in the rear view mirror that there is something I've not thought about much, called history. And what moves me tonight is that I'm being joined by colleagues and peers to reflect on that history.” - Robert Redford, accepting his Honorary Oscar in 2002 | The Academy