Go ahead. Make his night.
Clint Eastwood will be honored at the Academy Awards on March 27 with the Irving G. Thalberg Award for "consistently high quality of motion picture production.""He imparts his creative force in all aspects of his company's films from development through distribution," said the announcement released Wednesday by Arthur Hiller, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Eastwood won Oscars for best picture and direction for "Unforgiven" in 1992. He has never won an Academy Award for acting.