Dolly Parton is ready to obtain an honorary Academy Award at 2025 Governors Awards, which can happen on Sunday, November sixteenth on the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood.
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 way of the Dollywood Basis and Dolly Parton’s Creativeness Library.
With the Oscar, Parton is now one step nearer to reaching EGOT standing. She already has 11 Grammys and an Emmy to her identify, and along with her life being the topic of an autobiographical musical opening on Broadway in 2026, there’s a great likelihood she’ll quickly add a Tony to her trophy shelf as nicely.