James Earl Jones receives an Honorary Award at the 2011 Governors Awards

James Earl Jones receives an Honorary Award at the 2011 Governors Awards in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood, CA, Saturday, November 12. Introduced by Glenn Close and presented by Sir Ben Kingsley with Vanessa Redgrave and Boyd Gaines at the Wyndham Theatre in London after a performance of "Driving Miss Daisy."

Check out these other Governors Awards highlights:

Oprah Winfrey's acceptance speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGWLw_E8IM0

Dick Smith's acceptance speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H0atfnOQpQ

J.J. Abrams salutes Dick Smith: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMEa7GbqrrM

Darth Vader Crashes Academy's Governors Awards: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xpfOjyHtnE

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[captainjjb84]

Truly one of the greatest actors we have ever had the privelage of watching!

[Tennisman81]

His voice is awesome in two of my favorite movies stars and Lion King

[ellenfgarde12]

see the site of this amazing boy who also:

brunosupershow.blogspot.com

[VanessaRedgraveFan]

@garykingzz: Lucky you ! I traveled to London three times and saw the play six times. I never managed to see him. It was an incredible honour to see him performing on stage.

I had waited for that since I saw him in " Roots " in 1981.

[VanessaRedgraveFan]

@ItBrandonSilver : How old are you ? Two years old ?

[BrokenTreeProd]

@ItBrandonSilver go back to watching Twilight my friend....film legends are before your time.

[frank53681]

and to think he had a speech problem when he was a kid.

[garykingzz]

I met him at the end of his performance on 3rd Dec 2011. What a wonderful warm and generous man and what an amazing conversation that will be with me for life.

[jarred160788]

@linkuei83 So does King Mufasa.

[alexanderg091694]

What a wonderful way to receive an Oscar!

[Heylilvelvet]

@ItBrandonSilver WHAT DID U JUST SAY?? He's AMAZING!!! He DESERVES an award like this!! How could you say that! He's a movie, film, tv, and ACTING LEGEND! He's a true man with heart and care! He deserves an Oscar!! And he's very happy with his career! and im one of his HUGE fans!! Darth Vader definitely disagrees with you... young ItBrandonSilver! (slices you in half with a light sabor)

[Bagpuss76]

@ItBrandonSilver James Earl Jones is an amazing actor. He deserves it for Field of Dreams alone. Obviously you know nothing about film at all.