Angelina Jolie to Receive Honorary Academy Award

Renowned Hollywood actress, Angelina Jolie will be bringing home a second Oscar, according to People.

However, the said award dubbed as the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award will be given to Jolie for her volunteer work and not for a performance on the silver screen. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the news on Thursday.

In 2000, Jolie won for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her work in Girl, Interrupted. Now, she will be one of the four to receive an honorary award along with Angela Lansbury, Steve Martin and Piero Tosi.

"The Governors Awards pay tribute to individuals who've made indelible contributions in their respective fields," said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. "We couldn't be more excited for this year's honorees and look forward to bringing their peers and colleagues together to celebrate their extraordinary achievements." 

Jolie will be recognized for her work with global advocacy groups like the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for which she was appointed as a Special Envoy in 2012 after 12 years of service. Co-awardee, Lansbury, will receive her first Academy Award in recognition of her extensive film career.

Lansbury has been nominated for three Oscars but has never won - for Gaslight in 1944, The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1945 and The Manchurian Candidate in 1962. She also did voice work as Mrs. Potts in the first animated feature to receive a Best Picture nomination, Beauty and the Beast.

Some of his well-known roles were in movies The Jerk, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Three Amigos, Roxanne, L.A. Story and The Pink Panther. Steve Martin wrote and starred in the 1977 Oscar-nominated short film The Absent-Minded Waiter. He also hosted the Academy Awards three times.