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. Recipients of the Thalberg Award include:

• 1937 Darryl F. Zanuck
• 1938 Hal B. Wallis
• 1939 David O. Selznick
• 1941 Walt Disney
• 1942 Sidney Franklin
• 1943 Hal B. Wallis
• 1944 Darryl F. Zanuck
• 1946 Samuel Goldwyn
• 1948 Jerry Wald
• 1950 Darryl F. Zanuck
• 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 and Richard D. Zanuck
• 1991 George Lucas
• 1994 Clint Eastwood
• 1996 Saul Zaentz
• 1998 Norman Jewison
• 1999 Warren Beatty
• 2000 Dino de Laurentiis