The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
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The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award is awarded periodically (although not every year) 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)
- 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 - nonede:Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award