The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award is awarded periodically 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. 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 Laurentis[?]
• 2001 none awarded