In 1979 honorary Oscars went to Laurence Olivier & this creator of Woody Woodpecker
Legendary animator/cartoonist Walter Lantz, creator of Woody 
Woodpecker, received an Honorary Academy Award in 1979 (at the ceremony ... 
of The Deer Hunter were Ted Post's anti-Vietnam war film Go Tell the Spartans 
with Burt... [DOC] [TLE] Academy Awards, USA (1949) - IMDb [PAR] Oscar ... Rank, Two Cities Films) Laurence Olivier was not present at the awards 
ceremony.