The Academy Honorary Award – instituted in 1948 for the 21st Academy Awards (previously called the Special Award, which was first presented in early 1929) – is given annually by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards, although prior winners of competitive Academy Awards are not excluded from receiving the Honorary Award.
 Unless otherwise specified, Honorary Award recipients receive the same gold Oscar statuettes received by winners of the competitive Academy Awards.
 Unlike the Special Achievement Award instituted in 1972 (and discontinued in 1995), those on whom the Academy confers its Honorary Award do not have to meet "the Academy's eligibility year and deadline requirements."
 Like the Special Achievement Award, the Special Award and Honorary Award have been used to reward significant achievements of the year that did not fit in existing categories, subsequently leading the Academy to establish several new categories, and to honor exceptional career achievements, contributions to the motion picture industry, and service to the Academy.
 The Academy Honorary Award is often awarded in preference to those with noted achievements in motion pictures who have nevertheless never won an Academy Award.
 Thus, many of its recipients are Classic Hollywood stars, such as Lillian Gish, Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, and Lauren Bacall.
Damien Conrad Bona (March 18, 1955 – January 29, 2012) was an American film historian, writer, film critic and journalist.
 Bona co-authored the 1986 reference book, "Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards," a definitive history of the Academy Awards with Mason Wiley, a former classmate at Columbia University.
 In 1982, Bona quit his job as a Manhattan lawyer and moved to Los Angeles, where he and Wiley embarked on extensive research to write a reference guide to Oscar history from the first ceremony in 1929.
 Much of the research was conducted at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences library in Beverly Hills, California.
 The two missed their original publication deadline of November 1982.
 They submitted the final copy two years later with updates on the 1985 Academy Awards.
 Co-author Wiley died in 1994.
 Bona was the sole author of the book's sequel, "Inside Oscar 2," which was released in 2002 and covered the Academy Awards from 1995 through 2000.
The Ambassador Hotel was a hotel in Los Angeles, California, and location of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub until it was demolished in 2005.
 The hotel began operation formally on January 1, 1921, and subsequently was the site of the 2nd Academy Awards, the 3rd Academy Awards, the 5th Academy Awards, the 6th Academy Awards, the 12th Academy Awards, the 15th Academy Awards, and the June 1968 assassination of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
 The hotel closed to guests in 1989.
This is a list of winners of the Academy Award of Merit for Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry.
 More popularly known as the Academy Award (or the Oscar) for Best Supporting Actor, this award was initially presented at the 9th Academy Awards ceremony for 1936 and was most recently presented at the 88th Academy Awards ceremony for 2015.
 Throughout the past 80 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 81 Best Supporting Actor awards to 73 different actors.
 This list is current as of the 89th Academy Awards ceremony held on February 26, 2017.
This is a list of winners of the Academy Award for Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry.
 More popularly known as the Academy Award (or the Oscar) for Best Actress, this award was initially presented at the 1st Academy Awards ceremony for 1927–1928 and was most recently presented at the 88th Academy Awards ceremony for 2015.
 Throughout the past 89 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 90 Best Actress awards to 75 different actresses.
 This list is current as of the 89th Academy Awards ceremony held on February 26, 2017.
The Scientific and Technical Awards are three different Honorary Awards that are given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) during the annual Academy Awards season.
 The Awards have been presented since the 4th Academy Awards in November 1931, to recognize original developments resulting in significant improvements in motion picture production and exhibition.
 The Awards are presented at a formal dinner ceremony a couple weeks before the principal Academy Awards ceremony.
This is a list of winners of the Academy Award for Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry.
 More popularly known as the Academy Award (or the Oscar) for Best Actor, this award was initially presented at the 1st Academy Awards ceremony for 1927–1928 and was most recently presented at the 88th Academy Awards ceremony for 2015.
 Throughout the past 88 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 90 Best Actor awards to 79 actors.
 This list is current as of the 89th Academy Awards ceremony held on February 26, 2017.
Little Golden Guy is a website which presents statistical data related to the Academy Awards (also known as the Oscars).
 Launched by Brian Barney in 1999, the search engine provides a method of tabulating the films and individuals holding records for the most nominations and awards within a particular category or within a specified timeframe.
 The website maintains data from the 1st Academy Awards ceremony, honoring films from 1927 and 1928, to the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring films from 2011.
 The site's search results also provide internal links to annual summaries, as well as statistical breakdowns of individual awards categories.
 The site has not been updated since the 2013 Academy Awards.
Sylvester J. Pussycat Sr., usually called Sylvester, is a fictional character, a three-time Academy Award-winning anthropomorphic, 40, 50, or 60-Inch tall Tuxedo cat in the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series of cartoons.
 Most of his appearances have him often chasing Tweety Bird, Speedy Gonzales, or Hippety Hopper.
 The name "Sylvester" is a play on "Felis silvestris", the scientific name for the wild cat species (domestic cats like Sylvester, though, are actually "Felis catus").
 The character debuted in Friz Freleng's "Life With Feathers" (1945), but Freleng's 1947 cartoon "Tweetie Pie" was the first pairing of Tweety with Sylvester, and the Bob Clampett-directed "Kitty Kornered" (1946) was Sylvester's first pairing with Porky Pig.
 Sylvester was not named until Chuck Jones gave him the name Sylvester, which was first used in Scaredy Cat.
 Sylvester appeared in 103 cartoons in the golden age, appearing in the fourth most films out of all the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies characters, only behind Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, and Daffy Duck respectively.
 Three of his cartoons won Academy Awards, the most for any starring Looney Tunes character: they are "Tweetie Pie", "Speedy Gonzales", and "Birds Anonymous".
Flippity and Flop were a pair of short lived cartoon characters, an anthropomorphic cat and canary duo.
 They appeared in theatrical shorts from 1945 to 1947 by for Columbia Pictures.
 The antics of Flop, the cat and Flippity the canary, were similar to that of Tweety and Sylvester of Warner Bros. However unlike Tweety, Flippity had to rely on Sam the household Dog to protect him from Flop.
 Flippity and Flop only appeared in four cartoons before Screen Gems was replaced by United Productions of America in 1947.
 Their popularity never reached that of Columbia's biggest cartoon stars, The Fox and the Crow.
 Flippity and Flop lived on only in comic books published by DC Comics until 1962.

Question: How man more Academy  Awards did the creator of Sylvester the Cat win than the creator of Flippity and Flop?
Answer: Three