David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures

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The David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures is awarded annually by the Producers Guild of America (PGA) at the Producers Guild of America Awards ceremonies recognizing the individual's outstanding body of work in motion pictures. The award category was instituted in 1989 and first awarded at the 1st Producers Guild Awards.

History

The award is named after American film producer David O. Selznick (1902–1965). As of the 34th Producers Guild of America Awards, there have been 40 awards presented.

Award winners

Year Image Recipient(s) Notes Nationality Ref.
1989
(1st)
File:WP Hal Roach 1920 (cropped).jpg Hal Roach Roach is the 1st recipient of this award. He founded Hal Roach Studios in 1914 and produced the films of silent film comedians Laurel and Hardy and Harold Lloyd. File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
1990
(2nd)
File:Stanley Kramer.JPG Stanley Kramer A prolific filmmaker who directed "message pictures" such as The Defiant Ones (1958), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
1991
(3rd)
File:Pandro S. Berman 1953.jpg Pandro S. Berman File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
1992
(4th)
File:Richard D. Zanuck (cropped).jpg Richard D. Zanuck Together Zanuck and Brown headed their own production company turning out mega hits like The Sting (1973), Jaws (1975), and Driving Miss Daisy (1989). File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
File:David Brown 2000.jpg David Brown File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
1993
(5th)
File:Saul Zaentz with Oscar 1976 (cropped).jpg Saul Zaentz A producer who won the Academy Award for Best Picture for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Amadeus (1984), and The English Patient (1996). File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
1994
(6th)
File:Howard W. Koch 1966.jpg Howard W. Koch Kock was appointed the head of film production at Paramount Pictures in 1964 from 1966 when he left to set up his own production company. File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
1995
(7th)
Walter Mirisch He was the president and executive head of the independent film production company The Mirisch Corporation, which he formed in 1957. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture for In the Heat of the Night (1967). File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
1996
(8th)
File:Gloria Swanson & Billy Wilder - ca. 1950.JPG Billy Wilder An acclaimed and prolific filmmaker who directed such films as Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), Some Like It Hot (1959), and The Apartment (1960). File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
1997
(9th)
File:Clint Eastwood Cannes 1993.jpg Clint Eastwood Eastwood has produced and directed numerous films including Unforgiven (1992), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Mystic River (2003), and Million Dollar Baby (2004). File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
1998
(10th)
File:Steven Bochco.jpg Steven Bochco Bochco developed a number of television series, including Hill Street Blues; L.A. Law; Doogie Howser, M.D.; Cop Rock; and NYPD Blue. File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
1999
(11th)
File:JerryBruckheimerHWOFJune2013.jpg Jerry Bruckheimer Bruckheimer has produced films like Flashdance (1983), The Rock (1995), Crimson Tide (1995), Con Air (1997), Armageddon (1998), Enemy of the State (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), Black Hawk Down (2001), as well as the Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Bad Boys, Pirates of the Caribbean, and National Treasure franchises. File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
2000
(12th)
File:Brian Grazer 2011 Shankbone.JPG Brian Grazer Grazer is the producing partner of Ron Howard and together they created Imagine Entertainment in 1986. He produced numerous projects including the films Splash (1984), Apollo 13 (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and Frost/Nixon (2008). File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
2001
(13th)
Lawrence Gordon He specializes in producing action-oriented films and other genres. Some of his most popular productions include 48 Hours (1982), Predator (1987), Die Hard (1988), Die Hard 2 (1990), Predator 2 (1990), Point Break (1991), Boogie Nights (1997), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and Prey (2022). File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
2002
(14th)
File:RobertEvansHWOFJul2012 (cropped).jpg Robert Evans Evans was a legendary studio executive and producer best known for his work on Rosemary's Baby (1968), Love Story (1970), The Godfather (1972), and Chinatown (1974). File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
2003
(15th)
File:Dino de laurentiis crop.jpg Dino De Laurentiis He was an Italian film producer and businessman who produced numerous films. File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy
2004
(16th)
File:Laura Ziskin yearbook.jpg Laura Ziskin She was the executive producer of Pretty Woman (1990) and producer of Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Spider-Man 3 (2007). File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
2005
(17th)
File:RogerCormanHWOFOct2012.jpg Roger Corman A trailblazer in the world of independent film producing numerous B films of the 1950s and 1960s. File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
2006
(18th)
Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
2007
(19th)
File:Frank Marshall Deauville 2012.jpg Frank Marshall Together Marshall and his wife Kennedy founded the production company Amblin Entertainment, along with Steven Spielberg. In 1991, he founded, with Kennedy, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, a film production company. File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
File:Kathleen Kennedy by Gage Skidmore (cropped).jpg Kathleen Kennedy File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
2008
(20th)
File:Michael Douglas Deauville 2013.jpg Michael Douglas An American film actor who has produced numerous films including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), The China Syndrome (1979), Romancing the Stone (1984), The Jewel of the Nile (1985), and The Rainmaker (1997). File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
2009
(21st)
File:John Lasseter 2 cropped 2009.jpg John Lasseter Lasseter acted as the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Disneytoon Studios, as well as the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering.[1] File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
2010
(22nd)
File:Scott Rudin.webp Scott Rudin Rudin is a producer of numerous projects ranging from film, television and theatre becoming one of the 19 people to win the Emmy Award, Grammy Award, Oscar, and Tony Award. File:Flag of the United States.svg USA [2]
2011
(23rd)
File:MKr25402 Steven Spielberg (Berlinale 2023).jpg Steven Spielberg A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, he is the most commercially successful director in history.[3] Spielberg co-founded Amblin Entertainment in 1980 and DreamWorks in 1994, and he has served as a producer for many successful films and television series. File:Flag of the United States.svg USA [4]
2012
(24th)
File:Tim Bevan (cropped).jpg Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan Together Fellner and Bevan founded the production company Working Title Films in 1983 which has produced numerous British and America films. File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK
File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand
2013
(25th)
File:Barbara Broccoli - Film Premiere "Spectre" 007 (22547549736).jpg Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli Broccoli and Wilson are best known for producing numerous films within the James Bond franchise. File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK
2014
(26th)
File:Gale Anne Hurd by Gage Skidmore 3.jpg Gale Anne Hurd Hurd is the founder of Valhalla Entertainment (formerly Pacific Western Productions),[5] and a former recording secretary for the Producers Guild of America.[6] File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
2015
(27th)
File:David Heyman in 2016.jpg David Heyman Heyman is best known for producing the Harry Potter, the Fantastic Beasts, and the Paddington franchise films. He also has produced films for Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, and Quentin Tarantino. File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK
2016
(28th)
Irwin Winkler Winkler produced numerous films starting with the Elvis Presley musical Double Trouble (1967) followed by, the critically acclaimed films They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), Rocky (1976), Raging Bull (1980), The Right Stuff (1983), and Goodfellas (1990). File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
2017
(29th)
File:Justice League Japan Premiere Red Carpet- Charles Roven (38536139754).jpg Charles Roven Roven is the president and co-founder of Atlas Entertainment and produced the superhero films The Dark Knight Trilogy (2008), Man of Steel (2012), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and Suicide Squad (2016).[7] File:Flag of the United States.svg USA [8]
2018
(30th)
File:Kevin Feige (48462887397) (cropped).jpg Kevin Feige He has been the president of Marvel Studios and the primary producer of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise since 2007. File:Flag of the United States.svg USA [9]
2019
(31st)
File:Brad Pitt 2019 by Glenn Francis.jpg Brad Pitt, In 2001, they co-founded the production company Plan B Entertainment.[10] They produced The Departed (2006), 12 Years a Slave (2013), and Moonlight (2016), all of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and were also nominated for The Tree of Life (2011), Moneyball (2011), Selma (2014), and The Big Short (2015). File:Flag of the United States.svg USA [11]
File:Dede Gardner (2017).jpg Dede Gardner File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
File:Jeremy Kleiner (2017).jpg Jeremy Kleiner File:Flag of the United States.svg USA
2020
(32nd)
not awarded
2021
(33rd)
Mary Parent She is a former President of Production for Universal Pictures and she co-founded Disruption Entertainment in 2011, a company with a first-look deal at Paramount Pictures, and co-produces films with Legendary Entertainment.[12] She was formerly the Chairperson of Metro Goldwyn Mayer's Worldwide Motion Picture Group.[13] File:Flag of the United States.svg USA [14]
2022
(34th)
File:Tom Cruise May 2022 (cropped).jpg Tom Cruise Martin Scorsese Scorsese is a legendary and acclaimed filmmaker known for directing such iconic films as Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990), The Departed (2006), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Irishman (2019), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). File:Flag of the United States.svg USA [15]
2024
(36th)
File:Chris Meledandri at the 2018 Fast Company Innovation Festival 1.jpg Chris Meledandri Meledandri is the founder and CEO of the animation studio Illumination and the second animation producer to receive the award. File:Flag of the United States.svg USA [16]

References

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  3. "Top Grossing Director at the Worldwide Box Office". The Numbers. Archived from the original on October 1, 2019. Retrieved 2022-12-25.
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  6. "Walking Dead Atlanta Recruitment Event". Producers Guild of America. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
  7. "THR's Producer of the Year: Charles Roven on the Future of DC Films and What Really Happened Between George Clooney and David O. Russell". The Hollywood Reporter. December 22, 2016. Retrieved 2018-12-24.
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  10. "Oscar Movies Brad Pitt Has Produced Over the Years – from Minari to Moonlight". People. Archived from the original on July 2, 2022. Retrieved July 2, 2022.
  11. McNary, Dave (December 12, 2019). "Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner to Receive Producers Guild Honor". Variety. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
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  13. Reuters March 13, 2008
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