Honorary Oscars for Coppola, Godard, Wallach

The Academy announced the recipients of this year's honorary Governor's Awards today and they include three legends.

Director Francis Ford Coppola, best known for his seminal Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now (i also always loved The Conversation) will be honoured.

The great Eli Wallach will be recognised. The actor is now in his 7th decade of making movies and had roles in both The Ghost Writer and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps this year. He is probably best remembered as the hapless Tuco in The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (left) and as the villainous bandit in The Magnificent Seven.

French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, director of such new wave classics as A Bout De Souffle and Masculin Feminin, will also receive the award.