{"id":47992,"date":"2025-10-01T00:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/47992\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T00:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:34:07","slug":"dolly-parton-to-miss-governors-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/47992\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton to Miss Governors Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDolly Parton<\/a>, the legendary singer-songwriter and actress and noted philanthropist who was tapped<\/a> by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\u2019 board of governors to receive its Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 16th Governors Awards<\/a> on Nov. 16, will not attend the ceremony in Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.<\/p>\n

\n\tParton, 79, who lives in Tennessee, announced earlier this week<\/a> that \u201chealth challenges\u201d were forcing her to postpone a series of six concerts that were to have taken place in Las Vegas later this year, for which tickets sold out in less than two hours. It has been a difficult year for the fan favorite, whose husband on nearly 60 years, Carl Dean, died in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tPrevious Governors Awards<\/a> honorees who were unable to attend the ceremony include John Calley, Jean-Luc Godard, James Earl Jones, Piero Tosi, Debbie Reynolds and, last year, just days after his death<\/a>, Quincy Jones.<\/p>\n

\n\tEven in her absence, Parton will surely be celebrated at the Governors Awards, alongside this year\u2019s three recipients of honorary Oscars: actor-producer Tom Cruise, actress-producer-choreographer Debbie Allen and production designer Wynn Thomas.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of the most popular country music<\/a> stars of all time, she made her mark on the movies as an actress (most memorably in 1980\u2019s 9 to 5 and 1982\u2019s The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, for which she received Golden Globe noms) and as a singer-songwriter (garnering best original song Oscar noms for \u201cNine to Five\u201d from 9 to 5 and \u201cTravelin\u2019 Thru\u201d from 2005\u2019s Transamerica). But her greatest legacy may be her philanthropy.<\/p>\n

\n\tIndeed, the daughter of a man who never learned to read has spent millions of dollars to give away more than 285 million books to children, aiming to inspire a lifelong love of reading. It\u2019s all done through her Dollywood Foundation, which she created in 1988 with the aim of helping to educate kids from her home state of Tennessee, and the Dolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library, which launched in 1995. 30 years later, Parton\u2019s organization mails millions of free books every month to pre-schoolers in all 50 states, as well as in Canada, the U.K., Australia and Ireland.<\/p>\n

\n\tBeyond that, she has also been an outspoken ally of the LGBTQ community and a pivotal supporter of medical research \u2014 as in, $2 million in donations to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center\u00a0\u2014 that helped to fund the critical early stages of development of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine that saved an untold number of lives during the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton, the legendary singer-songwriter and actress and noted philanthropist who was tapped by the Academy of Motion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1096,37390,146,37391,37392,85,46,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-47992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-dolly-parton","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-governors-awards","12":"tag-governors-awards-2025","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}