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Quincy Jones & More Saluted at Motion Picture Academy’s Governors Awards: 8 Best Moments

Quincy Jones & More Saluted at Motion Picture Academy's Governors Awards: 7 Best Moments

This year’s 15th edition was a happy occasion too, but it was muted by the fact that one of the honorees, Quincy Jones, died on Nov. 3, just two weeks before the awards were presented on Sunday, Nov. 17, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood. Jennifer Hudson led a 12-member gospel choir on a rousing version of “Maybe God Is Tryin’ to Tell You Something’,” a song from the 1985 film The Color Purple, for which Jones received three of his seven career Oscar nominations. Richard Curtis and one of his top stars, Hugh Grant, who displayed a mock prickly relationship, had a little fun with the Governor’s Awards and whether they should or shouldn’t count as an Oscar.

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