Marketing executive Cheryl Boone Isaacs has been tapped to produce the 4th Annual Governors Awards for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She’ll share the duties with the Don Mischer Production team led by Don Mischer, Charlie Haykel and Juliane Hare. The event is to be held Dec 1 with one or more of the Academy’s highest honors – the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and the Honorary Award – to be presented.

Boone Isaacs, a member of the Academy’s Board of Governors representing the Public Relations Branch, currently heads CBI Enterprises where she has consulted on such films as “The Artist,” “The King’s Speech,” “Precious,” “Spiderman 2″ and “Tupac: Resurrection.” She was previously president of theatrical marketing for New Line Cinema and EVP of worldwide publicity for Paramount Pictures.

The 2012 honorees will be selected at a specially convened meeting of the Academy’s Board in August.