The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
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 recpients 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:
- 1938 - Darryl F. Zanuck
- 1939 - 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
- 1940 - David O. Selznick
- 1941 - none
- 1942 - Walt Disney, RCA Manufacturing Co.
- 1943 - Sidney Franklin
- 1944 - Hal B. Wallis
- 1945 - Darryl F. Zanuck
- 1946 - none
- 1947 - Samuel Goldwyn
- 1948 - none
- 1949 - Jerry Wald
- 1950 - none
- 1951 - Darryl F. Zanuck
- 1952 - Arthur Freed
- 1953 - Cecil B. DeMille
- 1954 - George Stevens
- 1955 - none
- 1956 - none
- 1957 - Buddy Adler
- 1958 - none
- 1959 - Jack L. Warner
- 1960 - none
- 1961 - none
- 1962 - Stanley Kramer
- 1963 - none
- 1964 - Sam Spiegel
- 1965 - none
- 1966 - William Wyler
- 1967 - Robert Wise
- 1968 - Alfred Hitchcock
- 1969 - none
- 1970 - none
- 1971 - Ingmar Bergman
- 1972 - none
- 1973 - none
- 1974 - Lawrence Weingarten
- 1975 - none
- 1976 - Mervyn LeRoy
- 1977 - Pandro S. Berman
- 1978 - Walter Mirisch
- 1979 - none
- 1980 - Ray Stark
- 1981 - none
- 1982 - Albert R. Broccoli
- 1983 - none
- 1984 - none
- 1985 - none
- 1986 - none
- 1987 - Steven Spielberg
- 1988 - Billy Wilder
- 1989 - none
- 1990 - none
- 1991 - David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck
- 1992 - George Lucas
- 1993 - none
- 1994 - none
- 1995 - Clint Eastwood
- 1996 - none
- 1997 - Saul Zaentz
- 1998 - none
- 1999 - Norman Jewison
- 2000 - Warren Beatty
- 2001 - Dino De Laurentiis
- 2002 - none
- 2003 - none
- 2004 - none