Oscar winners Guillermo del Toro and Aaron Sorkin have a date with the American Film Institute.

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The Hollywood veterans have been selected to receive honorary doctor of fine arts degrees during AFI Conservatory’s commencement ceremony at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre on Aug. 7. The event honors the conservatory’s graduating class of 2026.

With the shine, they join a roster of AFI honorary degree recipients that includes Robert Altman, Maya Angelou, Saul Bass, Angela Bassett, Kathryn Bigelow, Mel Brooks, Carol Burnett, Anne V. Coates, Jamie Lee Curtis, Viola Davis, Clint Eastwood, Roger Ebert, Nora Ephron, Jodie Foster, Lesli Linka Glatter, James Earl Jones, Lawrence Kasdan, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Angela Lansbury, Spike Lee, David Lynch, Helen Mirren, Rita Moreno, Quentin Tarantino, Lily Tomlin, Robert Towne, Cicely Tyson, Haskell Wexler, John Williams and Michelle Yeoh.

“Guillermo del Toro and Aaron Sorkin are peerless, prolific creative forces at a time the world needs them most,” said AFI president and CEO Bob Gazzale. “From the vast nature of dreams to an incisive line of dialogue, their contributions to the art form have inspired audiences around the world — as they will inspire this year’s graduates of the AFI Conservatory.”

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Del Toro will receive his honorary degree after most recently releasing his epic Frankenstein on Netflix. After his debut Cronos, he went on to make such films as Pan’s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water, Pinocchio, Nightmare Alley, Crimson Peak, Pacific Rim, Hellboy, Blade II and The Devil’s Backbone, among others.

Sorkin comes to the honor ahead of his new film, The Social Reckoning, starring Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Bill Burr and Jeremy Strong and set to be released on Oct. 9. The acclaimed screenwriter, director and producer made his Broadway debut with A Few Good Men, which earned him the John Gassner Award for outstanding new American playwright. His other stage works include The Farnsworth Invention, the adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird and a new book for Bartlett Sher’s Lincoln Center production of Camelot.

His other film and TV credits include the adaptation of A Few Good Men, The American President, Charlie Wilson’s War, The West Wing, Sports Night, The Newsroom, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Social Network, Moneyball, Steve Jobs, Molly’s Game, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Being the Ricardos.

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