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Stuntman, documentarian among early Oscar honorees

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DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg will accept their Oscar statuettes at the 4th annual Governors Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors at a private ceremony Saturday.

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Stuntman, Hal Needham will accept an Oscar statuette at the 4th annual Governors Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors.

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AFI George Stevens Jr. will be honored with the 4th annual Governors Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors at a private ceremony Saturday.

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D.A. Pennebaker along with Hal Needham, George Stevens, Jr. and Jeffrey Katzenberg will accept their Oscar statuettes at the 4th annual Governors Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors at a private ceremony Saturday.

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The honorary Oscar winners at the 4th annual Governors Awards include a stuntman who broke 56 bones during his performing career, a documentarian who has made movies for six decades, the founder of the American Film Institute and a philanthropist who has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for arts, education and health-related causes.