This is some pleasant news coming from the New York Times. Independent filmmaker Roger Corman will receive a honoree Oscar award at the Governor Award’s dinner, scheduled for November 14th. The honorees were chosen for the Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Science and were selected this past Thursday.

Corman is an all time low-budget film maker and producer. Through his 50 plus year career, he has generated most of what us from HorrorYearbook believe to be classics of the genre we so very love. He directed Jack Nicholson in his first horror role of The Little Shop of Horrors, adapted Edgar Allan Poe’s short story the Pit and The Pendulum with Vincent Price and brought us his version of the unspeakable automaton in Frankenstein Unbound! He has produced many cult classics that me and my fellow HorrorYearbookians own such as Piranha, The Big Doll House, Humanoids of the Deep, House, and many, many more…

Congrats to Roger Corman – he deserves it.