The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

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The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award is awarded periodically at the Academy Awards ceremonies to "Creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production." The award is named for Irving Thalberg, legendary head of the Production Division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who developed the company's reputation for sophisticated films. The trophy for award recipients is in the form of a bust of Thalberg rather than the familiar "Oscar" statuette.

For this award, the year shown is the year when the award was actually presented. Recipients of the Thalberg Award include:

• 1937 - Darryl F. Zanuck
• 1938 - Hal B. Wallis

  Other nominees (The only year for which they were announced)

  • Samuel Goldwyn
  • Joe Pasternak
  • David O. Selznick
  • Hunt Stromberg
  • Walter Wanger
  • Darryl F. Zanuck
• 1939 - David O. Selznick
• 1940 - none
• 1941 - Walt Disney, RCA Manufacturing Co.
• 1942 - Sidney Franklin
• 1943 - Hal B. Wallis
• 1944 - Darryl F. Zanuck
• 1945 - none
• 1946 - Samuel Goldwyn
• 1947 - none
• 1948 - Jerry Wald
• 1949 - none
• 1950 - Darryl F. Zanuck
• 1951 - Arthur Freed
• 1952 - Cecil B. DeMille
• 1953 - George Stevens
• 1954 - none
• 1955 - none
• 1956 - Buddy Adler
• 1957 - none
• 1958 - Jack L. Warner
• 1959 - none
• 1960 - none
• 1961 - Stanley Kramer
• 1962 - none
• 1963 - Sam Spiegel
• 1964 - none
• 1965 - William Wyler
• 1966 - Robert Wise
• 1967 - Alfred Hitchcock
• 1968 - none
• 1969 - none
• 1970 - Ingmar Bergman
• 1971 - none
• 1972 - none
• 1973 - Lawrence Weingarten
• 1974 - none
• 1975 - Mervyn LeRoy
• 1976 - Pandro S. Berman
• 1977 - Walter Mirisch
• 1978 - none
• 1979 - Ray Stark
• 1980 - none
• 1981 - Albert R. Broccoli
• 1982 - none
• 1983 - none
• 1984 - none
• 1985 - none
• 1986 - Steven Spielberg
• 1987 - Billy Wilder
• 1988 - none
• 1989 - none
• 1990 - David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck
• 1991 - George Lucas
• 1992 - none
• 1993 - none
• 1994 - Clint Eastwood
• 1995 - none
• 1996 - Saul Zaentz
• 1997 - none
• 1998 - Norman Jewison
• 1999 - Warren Beatty
• 2000 - Dino De Laurentiis
• 2001 - none
• 2002 - none
• 2003 - none
• 2004 - none
• 2005 - none

[edit] External links

• Official Description of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award with image and list of recipients

Academy Award
Academy Award of Merit : Current Awards
Best Picture | Best Leading Actor | Best Leading Actress | Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress
Best Animated Feature | Best Art Direction | Best Cinematography | Best Costume Design | Best Director
Best Documentary Feature | Best Documentary Short Subject | Best Film Editing | Best Foreign Language Film | Best Makeup
Best Original Score | Best Original Song | Best Animated Short Film | Best Live Action Short Film | Best Sound Mixing
Best Sound Editing | Best Visual Effects | Best Adapted Screenplay | Best Original Screenplay
Academy Award of Merit : Retired awards
Best Assistant Director | Best Dance Direction | Best Director of a Comedy Picture
Best Director of a Dramatic Picture | Best Engineering Effects | Best Short Film - Color
Best Short Film - Live Action - 2 Reels | Best Short Film - Novelty | Best Original Story
Best Title Writing | Best Unique and Artistic Quality of Production
Special Awards : Current Awards
Academy Honorary Award | Academy Special Achievement Award | Academy Award, Scientific or Technical
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award | Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Special Awards : Retired Awards
Academy Juvenile Award