It's Official: Jean-Luc Godard to be Oscar No-Show

AMPAS officially confirmed this afternoon that Jean-Luc Godard will most definitely not attend next month's Governors Award, where the filmmaker is set to receive an honorary Oscar. This was a foregone conclusion weeks ago when the French New Wave legend went AWOL upon his award's announcement, then blew off the ceremony despite the Academy's insistence he'd attend. Godard does apparently want the statuette, which will be shipped to him in Switzerland and swiftly, surely and proudly welded to the hood of his Hyundai. [TOH]