Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning was not a good movie — but I don’t know if even polarizing stunt-junkie Tom Cruise deserved the amount of shade thrown his way earlier this week. The man went zero g on a biplane!

On Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization behind the Academy Awards, announced the recipients of its annual honorary Oscars. Issued as an actual Oscar statuette but voted on by the organization’s Board of Governors instead of the full voting body like the traditional awards, the Honorary Oscar is meant to “honor extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences in any discipline.”

Emphasis on “lifetime achievement.” Most of the recipients of the Honorary Oscar are actors, directors, creatives, and craftspeople whose work has gone overlooked by the Academy Awards over the years, and who are in the twilight years of their careers, thus unlikely to score an actual Oscar anytime soon. This year’s recipients: Debbie Allen (age 75, kicked off a long career with Fame); Wynn Thomas (age unknown, but Spike Lee’s longtime production designer); Dolly Parton (age 79,........

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