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

External links

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

Academy Awards
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 Original Musical \| 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 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

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