LAUREN BACALL TO RECEIVE HONORARY OSCAR

Legendary screen sex siren Lauren Bacall is to receive an honorary Oscar.
The 84-year-old actress, who made her screen debut opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1944 thriller To Have and Have Not, went on to marry her leading man and star with him in the classic hits The Big Sleep, The Dark Passage and Key Largo.
In all, she starred in more than 30 movies including North West Frontier with Kenneth More in 1959, the star-studded big screen adaptation of Agatha Christie' mystery Murder On The Orient Express in 1974 and The Shootist opposite John Wayne in 1976.
Her last big screen outing to date was in the 2007 thriller The Walker, in which she appeared opposite Woody Harrelson and Kristin Scott Thomas.
After Bogart's death in 1957, Bacall went on to marry actor Jason Robards in 1961 but they divorced in 1969.
Bacall, producer and director Roger Corman and cinematographer Gordon Willis have become the first Oscar winners of the season.
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that the three will receive honorary Oscar statuettes.
Corman, 83, who name his name directing low-budget horror flicks in the 1950s, has directed more than 50 films and produced more than 300 during his five-decade career, including Swamp Woman, It Conquered the World and Attack of the Crab Monsters, as well as the more mainstream 1960 The Little Shop of Horrors.
Willis, 78, is a two-time Academy Award nominee for Zelig and The Godfather, Part III.
The board also voted to present the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producer-executive John Calley. His producing credits include Postcards from the Edge, The Remains of the Day, for which he earned a Best Picture Oscar nomination, Closer and The Da Vinci Code.
All four awards will be presented at the Academy's inaugural Governors Awards gala event on November 14 in Hollywood.