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The Motion Picture and Television Fund has been selected by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Board of Governors to receive Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is awarded periodically by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) at the Governors Awards ceremonies for an individual's "outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes". Prior to 2009 and in 2021, this award was presented during the main Oscars ceremony. The award category was instituted in 1956 and first awarded at the 29th Academy Awards, in March 1957. Unlike the Academy Award of Merit, the nomination and voting for this award are restricted to members of the Board of Governors of AMPAS. 

Q. How does it feel to be an award show ‑‑ obviously, during the pandemic, how do you all feel right now in the situation?

A. I'll speak first. We feel blessed that the academy has chosen to honor us with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Hersholt was a seminal player in the Motion Picture and Television Fund for many years, not only when he was president, but before that and after that. He helped raise the money to buy and build our campus. And it's just so amazing to us that we will be able to bring the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award back to where Hersholt started.

Clip Courtesy A.M.P.A.S.© 2021

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