Director Jean-Luc Godard will be honored with a Governor’s Award for an incredible body of work, beginning with 1960′s “Breathless”, which launched the French New-Wave movement via its innovative use of jump cuts and continuity breaks. Other directors have been influenced by Godard’s work, as well, including: Martin Scorsese, Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino. Other fine films within Godard’s filmography include “Contempt”, “2 or 3 Things I Know About Her”, “Alphaville”, and “A Woman Is a Woman”.

Francis Ford Coppola, a five-time Oscar winner already, will receive the Academy’s prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for his five-decade career as a director, producer and writer. Many know Coppola for his work on “The Godfather” trilogy, “The Conversation”, and “Apocalypse Now”.

Eli Wallach’s Governor’s Award honors a career that dates back to the ’50s and includes such classics as “The Magnificent Seven”, “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”, “The Misfits”, and “Lord Jim”. At the age of 94, he continues to work, most recently in Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer” and Oliver Stone’s forthcoming “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps”.

Film historian Kevin Brownlow will also be given a statuette for his scholarly efforts when the Academy’s second annual Governor’s Awards dinner is held on Nov. 13. He has rescued many silent films and their history. His initiative in interviewing many largely forgotten, elderly film pioneers in the 1960s and 1970s preserved a legacy of cinema, as well.