Tyler Perry and The Motion Picture And Television Fund (MPTF) have been selected by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Board Of Governors to both receive Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Awards to be presented at the 93rd Annual Academy Awards on Sunday April 25, 2021.Perry is being honored for his extensive work on humanitarian and social Justice causes, while the MPTF will receive the first Hersholt ever awarded to an organization, an act the AMPAS board had to approve on this one time only basis as MPTF heads towards its 100th of “taking care of our own”.In the past several years, since the 82nd Oscar year,the Hersholt, Thalberg Award , and Honorary Oscars have been presented at the Governors Awards , a separate ceremony , usually
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