{"id":33821,"date":"2025-11-18T05:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=33821"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:16:48","slug":"dolly-parton-receives-honorary-oscar-at-2025-governors-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/11\/dolly-parton-receives-honorary-oscar-at-2025-governors-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Receives Honorary Oscar At 2025 Governors Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dolly Parton<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0was honoured with the\u00a0<\/span>Jean Hersholt<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Humanitarian Award at the 2025 Governors Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 16.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Due to recent health issues, the 79-year-old country music icon accepted the Oscar statuette via video message from her Nashville home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This marks Parton\u2019s first Oscar win following two previous Best Original Song nominations, previously receiving nods in 1980 for &#8220;9 to 5&#8221; from the film of the same name, and in 2005 for &#8220;Travellin&#8217; Thru&#8221; from\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Transamerica<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI&#8217;ve been blessed more than I ever dreamed possible. It&#8217;s an honor just to be considered. I don&#8217;t take this kind of thing lightly. It makes me want to dream up new ways to help lift people up. Isn&#8217;t that what we&#8217;re supposed to be here for? So from my heart to yours, I truly thank you.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Presented by her\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">9 to 5<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0co-star\u00a0<\/span>Lily Tomlin<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the honour recognizes Parton&#8217;s decades-long charitable work, including her Dollywood Foundation and the Imagination Library, which has gifted 285 million books to children.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DHT1l788fBM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oscar for Dolly","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":33713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3011,102,6405,6406,6768],"class_list":["post-33821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-dolly","tag-dolly-parton","tag-governors-awards","tag-jean-hersholt-humanitarian-award","tag-lily-tomline"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 13:31:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/11\/dolly-parton-receives-honorary-oscar-at-2025-governors-awards\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33824,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33821\/revisions\/33824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}