Irving G. Thalberg Award Articles

Francis Ford Coppola Oscar 2011: Jean-Luc Godard, Eli Wallach Honorary Oscar Recipients Kevin Brownlow (right), 72, is the most renowned silent-film historian and preservationist. Among his various restoration projects are Abel Gance’s epic Napoleon (1927), with Albert Dieudonné; Rex Ingram’s blockbuster The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), starring Rudolph Valentino and Alice Terry; and Raoul Walsh's fantasy The Thief of Bagdad (1924), starring Douglas [...]

Jean-Luc Godard (above), Eli Wallach (right), Kevin Brownlow, and Francis Ford Coppola have been chosen as the recipients of the 2010 special Academy Awards. Godard, Brownlow, and Wallach will receive Honorary Awards; Coppola will be handed the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. No Jean Hersholt Award (for "good deeds") will be given out this year. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture [...]

Lauren Bacall, Honorary Award recipient at the 2009 Governors Awards Former Academy president Sid Ganis has been named the producer of the 2nd Governors Awards, current Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak has announced. On Saturday, November 13, 2010, one or more of the Academy’s special awards – the Honorary Award, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian [...]

Lauren Bacall Oscar winners Anjelica Huston, Jonathan Demme, and Quentin Tarantino, and Honorary Award recipient Kirk Douglas will be some of the presenters at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ first Governors Awards event on November 14 at Hollywood & Highland Center's Grand Ballroom. The evening will feature presentations of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producer-executive John Calley, and Honorary Awards [...]