abstract
| - The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award is awarded periodically at the Academy Awards ceremonies to "Creative producers, whose bodies of work relfect a consistently high quality of Motion Picture Production." The Award is named after Irving Thalberg, head of the Production Division of Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, who developed the Company's reputation for Sophisticated films. The Trophy for Award Reciepts is in the form of a bust of Thalberg rather than the familiar "Oscar" Statuette. For this Award, this year is shown is the year when the Award was presented.
* 1938 -- Darryl F. Zanuck
* 1939 -- Hal B. Wallis
* 1940 -- David O. Selznick
* 1941 -- Buster Keaton
* 1942 -- Walt Disney
* 1943 -- Sidney Franklin
* 1944 -- Hal B. Wallis
* 1945 -- Darryl F. Zanuck
* 1946 -- Willis O`Brien
* 1947 -- Samuel Goldwyn
* 1948 -- Walt Disney
* 1949 -- Jerry Wald
* 1950 -- Buster Keaton
* 1951 -- Darryl F. Zanuck
* 1952 -- Arthur Freed
* 1953 -- Cecil D. Demille
* 1954 -- George Stevens
* 1955 -- Hal Roach
* 1956 -- Mack Sennet
* 1957 -- Buddy Adler
* 1958 -- Preston Sturges
* 1959 -- Jack L. Warner
* 1960 -- Ub Iwerks
* 1961 -- Alfred Hitchcock
* 1962 -- Stanley Kramer
* 1963 -- Charlie Chaplin
* 1964 -- Sam Spiegel
* 1965 -- Gene Kelly
* 1966 -- William Wyler
* 1967 -- Robert Wise
* 1968 -- Alfred Hitchcock
* 1969 -- Mack Sennett
* 1970 -- Cecil D. Demille
* 1971 -- Ingmar Bergman
* 1972 -- Walter Wanger and Jules White
* 1973 -- Walt Disney
* 1974 -- Lawrence Weingarten
* 1975 -- Irving Thalberg
* 1976 -- Mervyn LeRoy
* 1977 -- Pandro S. Berman
* 1978 -- Walter Mirisch
* 1979 -- Chuck Jones
* 1980 -- Ray Stark
* 1981 -- Jim Henson
* 1982 -- Albert R. Broccoli
* 1983 -- Merian C. Cooper
* 1984 -- Mel Brooks
* 1985 -- Don Bluth
* 1986 -- D.B. Sweeney
* 1987 -- Steven Spielberg
* 1988 -- Billy Wilder
* 1989 -- Tim Burton
* 1990 -- Chris Columbus
* 1991 -- David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck
* 1992 -- George Lucas
* 1993 -- Jim Henson and Frank Oz
* 1994 -- James L. Brooks
* 1995 -- Albert Hague
* 1996 -- Don Bluth and Gary Goldman
* 1997 -- Saul Zaentz
* 1998 -- Walt Disney
* 1999 -- Norman Jewison
* 2000 -- Warren Beatty
* 2001 -- Dino De Laurentiis
* 2002 -- Don Bluth and Richard Williams
* 2003 -- John Lasseter, Pete Doctor, Joe Ranft, Andrew Stanton and Brad Bird
* 2004 -- Stanley Kramer
* 2005 -- Michael Jeter, John Hughes, Joe McEveety, Tim Conway and Don Knotts
* 2006 -- Busby Berkeley
* 2007 -- Andy Heyward and William Joyce
* 2008 -- D.B. Sweeney
* 2009 -- John Galley
* 2010 -- Francis Ford Coppola
* 2011 -- Tony Geiss and Judy Freudberg
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