Dolly Parton is about to obtain an honorary Academy Award at 2025 Governors Awards, which is able to happen on Sunday, November sixteenth on the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood. (Tom Cruise may also obtain an honorary Oscar in the course of the ceremony.)
The 79-year-old nation music legend, who additionally starred in a number of characteristic movies together with 9 to five, Rhinestone, and Metal Magnolias, is being honored with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. The award acknowledges her decades-long humanitarian and philanthropic efforts by the Dollywood Basis and Dolly Parton’s Creativeness Library.
With the Oscar, Parton is now one step nearer to attaining EGOT standing. She already has 11 Grammys and an Emmy to her identify, and together with her life being the topic of an autobiographical musical opening on Broadway in 2026, there’s probability she’ll quickly add a Tony to her trophy shelf as properly. If and when she does, she’ll be categorised as a non-competitive EGOT winner (since she obtained an honorary Oscar).
