The 97th Academy Awards has been set to take place on March 3, 2025, where the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) will be presenting and honoring films released in 2024 with the prestigious accolades. Awarded to those involved under the films' names, the Oscars, are awards based on technical and artistic merits that the films hold. While the ceremony is not a gala of any sort, it is nothing short of a presentation of appearances as well, where even one's presence turns it revered. 

Dotted with prestigious designations that equal bestows, the Academy Awards are sometimes not enough for a few things that seem to be greater than a lifetime. Where the granting of the designation outweighs the number of classifications, limited and concise, the AMPAS holds something sufficing for such accolades which might go on to become of greater significance than the aforementioned.

The Governors Awards, categorized and titled under the names of the Academy Honorary Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, and the Irving G., Thalberg Memorial Award, are given out to signify lifetime achievements within the film industry. Previously, the Governors Awards had been presented as part of the main awards ceremony, but were eventually branched out and were not entirely televised, but partially montaged at the beginning of the Academy Awards ceremony. 

Now being one of the five main award ceremonies hosted by the AMPAS, the Governors Awards are orchestrated in a manner that allows the recipients to speak for longer, since its segregation, which had initially been so, as to not hinder with and cause extension in the main Academy Awards. They were first presented under the name in November 2009. The Governors Awards has, over the years, earned itself the importance of a prestigious carpet standing on par with the Academy Awards. 

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This branching of the Academy Awards has been, to explain further, designed to be awarded for one's distinguishable achievements, that have been proven to have shifted the fundamental values or processes of the arts and sciences and opened up new possibilities on their way, divided aptly between the three mentioned categories. 

For an umbrella understanding of the categorization of the Governors Awards, it is essential to know the Academy Honorary Award; given out for achieving extraordinary distinctions, crossing boundaries of the established practices of motion picture arts and sciences, while the Thalberg Award is given to creative producers who unfailingly continue to reflect utmost quality in their work, whereas the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, stand true to its name as an accolade for contributions for humanitarian benefits. 

The Governors Awards are given out in quartets. Not more, but sometimes less. The minimal publicity and visible glamor around these accolades maintain an air of prestige for its cause, an honor that might just last more than only one lifetime. 

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