Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award is awarded periodically by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Governors 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, head of the Production Division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who developed the company's reputation for sophisticated films. The trophy itself is a bust of Thalberg rather than the familiar "Oscar" statuette. However, it is still counted as an "Honorary Oscar".

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Awarded forcreative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production.
CountryUnited States
Presented byAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
First awarded1938
Websiteoscars.org
Alfred Hitchcock receiving the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from Robert Wise (40th Academy Awards, 1967)

The award was established in 1937 and was first presented at the 10th Academy Awards, in March 1938. Since 2009, it has been presented at the separate Governors Awards rather than at the main Academy Awards ceremony.

The Award has been awarded 39 times to date. Katharine Hepburn made her only appearance at an Oscar ceremony to present the award to her long-time friend Lawrence Weingarten at the 46th Academy Awards ceremony in 1974.

List of recipients

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Year Awarded Honorees
1937   Darryl F. Zanuck (1)
1938   Hal B. Wallis
1939   David O. Selznick
1941   Walt Disney
1942   Sidney Franklin
1943   Hal B. Wallis
1944   Darryl F. Zanuck (2)
1946   Samuel Goldwyn
1948   Jerry Wald
1950   Darryl F. Zanuck (3)
1951   Arthur Freed
1952   Cecil B. DeMille
1953   George Stevens
1956   Buddy Adler
1958   Jack L. Warner
1961   Stanley Kramer
1963   Sam Spiegel
1965   William Wyler
1966   Robert Wise
1967   Alfred Hitchcock
1970   Ingmar Bergman
1973 Lawrence Weingarten
1975   Mervyn LeRoy
1976   Pandro S. Berman
1977 Walter Mirisch
1979 Ray Stark
1981   Albert R. Broccoli
1986   Steven Spielberg
1987   Billy Wilder
1990   David Brown
  Richard D. Zanuck
1991   George Lucas
1994   Clint Eastwood
1996   Saul Zaentz
1998   Norman Jewison
1999   Warren Beatty
2000   Dino De Laurentiis
2009 John Calley
2010   Francis Ford Coppola
2018   Kathleen Kennedy
  Frank Marshall

Other nominees

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The 11th Academy Awards, where the award was won by Hal B. Wallis, marks the only occasion for which non-winning nominations were announced. The other nominees were: Samuel Goldwyn, Joe Pasternak, David O. Selznick, Hunt Stromberg, Walter Wanger, Darryl F. Zanuck.

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