Honorary Oscar for Angelina Jolie

For her humanitarian work in at least 40 missions around the world, movie star Angelina Jolie was awarded an honorary Oscar on November 16, at the Governors Awards ceremony in Hollywood. Since 2012, Jolie has travelled around the world as a special envoy for the United Nations Refugee Agency. “It was only when I began to travel that I understood my responsibility to others,” Jolie said upon receiving the award. “I realized how sheltered I had been and I was determined never to be that way again.”

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