Editing Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

{{short description|Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences}}
{{more sources|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox award
| name           = Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
| current_awards = 
| image          = 
| imagesize      = 
| caption        = 
| awarded_for    = creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production.
| presenter      = [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] (AMPAS)
| country        = [[United States]]
| location       = 
| year           = 1938
| year2          = 
| website        = [http://www.oscars.org oscars.org]
}}
[[File:Alfred Hitchcock Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.jpg|thumb|[[Alfred Hitchcock]] receiving the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from [[Robert Wise]] ([[40th Academy Awards]], 1967)]]
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 was originally a bust of Thalberg rather than the familiar Oscar statuette. However, it is still counted as an "[[Academy Honorary Award|Honorary Oscar]]". The bust of Thalberg was last used in 2018 when the award was presented to [[Kathleen Kennedy (producer)|Kathleen Kennedy]] and [[Frank Marshall (filmmaker)|Frank Marshall]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Gz5bvL33c|title=Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy receive an Honorary Award at the 2018 Governors Awards|website=YouTube|date=November 19, 2018}}</ref> When the award was next presented at the [[Governors Awards#15th Governors Award|15th Governors Awards]] to [[Barbara Broccoli]] and [[Michael G. Wilson]] in 2024, the Oscar statuette was used instead.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://press.oscars.org/news/academy-honor-richard-curtis-quincy-jones-juliet-taylor-michael-g-wilson-barbara-broccoli-15th|title=The Academy to honor Richard Curtis, Quincy Jones, Juliet Taylor, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli|website=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|date=June 12, 2024}}</ref>

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==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! scope="col" |Year Awarded
! colspan="2" scope="col" class="unsortable" |Honorees
|-
! [[10th Academy Awards|1937]]
| [[File:Darryl F. Zanuck-1950.jpg|70px]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Zanuck, Darryl F.|[[Darryl F. Zanuck]]}} (1)
|-
! [[11th Academy Awards|1938]]
| [[File:Hal B. Wallis - Universal Pictures, c. 1971.jpg|70px]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Wallis|[[Hal B. Wallis]]}}
|-
! [[12th Academy Awards|1939]]
| [[File:DavidSelznick.jpg|70px|alt=David O. Selznick in 1934]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Selznick|[[David O. Selznick]]}}
|-
! [[14th Academy Awards|1941]]
| [[File:Walt Disney 1946.JPG|70px|alt=Walt Disney in 1946]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Disney|[[Walt Disney]]}}
|-
! [[15th Academy Awards|1942]]
| [[File:Sidney Franklin - Jun 1920 MPN.jpg|70px|alt=Sidney Franklin in 1920]]
| scope="row" | [[Sidney Franklin (director)|Sidney Franklin]]
|-
! [[16th Academy Awards|1943]]
| [[File:Hal B. Wallis - Universal Pictures, c. 1971.jpg|70px]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Wallis|[[Hal B. Wallis]]}}
|-
! [[17th Academy Awards|1944]]
|[[File:Darryl F. Zanuck-1950.jpg|70px]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Zanuck, Darryl F.|[[Darryl F. Zanuck]]}} (2)
|-
! [[19th Academy Awards|1946]]
| [[File:Samuel Goldwyn - Jul 1919 EH.jpg|70px|alt=Samuel Goldwyn in 1919]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Goldwyn|[[Samuel Goldwyn]]}}
|-
! [[21st Academy Awards|1948]]
| [[File:Jerry Wald at New Yorker Hotel, New York, N.Y., ca. Aug. 1947 - (LOC) (5476590324) (cropped).jpg|70px|Jerry Wald in 1947]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Wald|[[Jerry Wald]]}}
|-
! [[23rd Academy Awards|1950]]
| [[File:Darryl F. Zanuck-1950.jpg|70px]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Zanuck, Darryl F.|[[Darryl F. Zanuck]]}} (3)
|-
! [[24th Academy Awards|1951]]
| [[File:Arthur Freed receiving the Screen Producers Guild's Milestone Award (cropped).jpg|70px|Arthur Freed in 1964]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Freed|[[Arthur Freed]]}}
|-
! [[25th Academy Awards|1952]]
| [[File:Demille - c1920.JPG|70px|alt=Cecil B. DeMille circa 1920]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|DeMille|[[Cecil B. DeMille]]}}
|-
! [[26th Academy Awards|1953]]
| [[File:George Stevens with Oscar for Giant.jpg|70px|alt=George Stevens in 1957]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Stevens|[[George Stevens]]}}
|-
! [[29th Academy Awards|1956]]
| [[File:Buddy Adler.jpg|70px|alt=Buddy Adler in 1958]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Adler|[[Buddy Adler]]}}
|-
! [[31st Academy Awards|1958]]
| [[File:Jack Warner portrait copy.jpg|70px|alt=Jack Warner in 1955]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Warner|[[Jack L. Warner]]}}
|-
! [[34th Academy Awards|1961]]
| [[File:Stanley Kramer.JPG|70px|alt=Stanley Kramer circa 1955]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Kramer|[[Stanley Kramer]]}}
|-
! [[36th Academy Awards|1963]]
| [[File:Sam-Spiegel-1963.jpg|70px|alt=Sam Spiegel in 1963]]

| scope="row" | {{sort|Spiegel|[[Sam Spiegel]]}}
|-
! [[38th Academy Awards|1965]]
| [[File:William Wyler portrait.jpg|70px|alt=William Wyler circa 1945]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Wyler|[[William Wyler]]}}
|-
! [[39th Academy Awards|1966]]
| [[File:Robert wise 1990.jpg|70px|alt=Robert Wise in 1990]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Wise|[[Robert Wise]]}}
|-
! [[40th Academy Awards|1967]]
| [[File:Alfred Hitchcock by Jack Mitchell.jpg|70px|alt=Alfred Hitchcock by Jack Mitchell, circa 1972]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Hitchcock|[[Alfred Hitchcock]]}}
|-
! [[43rd Academy Awards|1970]]
| [[File:Ingmar Bergman Smultronstallet.jpg|70px|alt=Ingmar Bergman in 1957]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Bergman|[[Ingmar Bergman]]}}
|-
! [[46th Academy Awards|1973]]
| –
| scope="row" | {{sort|Weingarten|[[Lawrence Weingarten]]}}
|-
! [[48th Academy Awards|1975]]
| [[File:Mervyn LeRoy - 1958.jpg|70px|alt=Mervyn LeRoy in 1958]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|LeRoy|[[Mervyn LeRoy]]}}
|-
! [[49th Academy Awards|1976]]
| [[File:Pandro S. Berman 1953.jpg|70px|alt=Pandro S. Berman in 1953]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Berman|[[Pandro S. Berman]]}}
|-
! [[50th Academy Awards|1977]]
| –
| scope="row" | {{sort|Mirisch|[[Walter Mirisch]]}}
|-
! [[52nd Academy Awards|1979]]
| –
| scope="row" | {{sort|Stark|[[Ray Stark]]}}
|-
! [[54th Academy Awards|1981]]
| [[File:Albert Cubby Broccoli 1976 crop.JPG|70px|alt=Albert R. Broccoli in 1976]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Broccoli|[[Albert R. Broccoli]]}}
|-
! [[59th Academy Awards|1986]]
| [[File:Steven Spielberg by Gage Skidmore.jpg|70px|alt=Steven Spielberg in 2017]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Spielberg|[[Steven Spielberg]]}}
|-
! [[60th Academy Awards|1987]]
| [[File:Gloria_Swanson_%26_Billy_Wilder_-_ca._1950.JPG|70px]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Wilder|[[Billy Wilder]]}}
|-
! rowspan="2" | [[63rd Academy Awards|1990]]
| [[File:David Brown 2000.jpg|70px|alt=David Brown in 2000]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Brown|[[David Brown (producer)|David Brown]]}}
|-
| [[File:Richard D. Zanuck (cropped).jpg|70px|alt=Richard D. Zanuck in 1990]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Zanuck, Richard D.|[[Richard D. Zanuck]]}}
|-
! [[64th Academy Awards|1991]]
| [[File:George Lucas cropped 2009.jpg|70px|alt=George Lucas in 2009]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Lucas|[[George Lucas]]}}
|-
! [[67th Academy Awards|1994]]
| [[File:Clint Eastwood at 2010 New York Film Festival.jpg|70px|alt=Clint Eastwood in 2010]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Eastwood|[[Clint Eastwood]]}}
|-
! [[69th Academy Awards|1996]]
|[[File:Saul Zaentz with Oscar 1976 (cropped).jpg|70px]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Zaentz|[[Saul Zaentz]]}}
|-
! [[71st Academy Awards|1998]]
| [[File:Norman Jewison CFC in LA 37.jpg|70px|alt=Norman Jewison in 2012]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Jewison|[[Norman Jewison]]}}
|-
! [[72nd Academy Awards|1999]]
| [[File:Warren Beatty.jpg|70px|alt=Warren Beatty in 2001]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Beatty|[[Warren Beatty]]}}
|-
! [[73rd Academy Awards|2000]]
| [[File:Dino de laurentiis crop.jpg|70px|alt=Dino De Laurentiis in 2009]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Laurentiis|[[Dino De Laurentiis]]}}
|-
! [[82nd Academy Awards|2009]]
| –
| scope="row" | {{sort|Calley|[[John Calley]]}}
|-
! [[83rd Academy Awards|2010]]
| [[File:Francis Ford Coppola 2011 CC.jpg|70px|alt=Francis Ford Coppola in 2011]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Coppola|[[Francis Ford Coppola]]}}
|-
! rowspan="2" | [[91st Academy Awards|2018]]
| [[File:Kathleen_Kennedy_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg|70px|alt=Kathleen Kennedy in 2015]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Kennedy|[[Kathleen Kennedy (producer)|Kathleen Kennedy]]}}
|-
| [[File:Frank_Marshall_Deauville_2012.jpg|70px|alt=Frank Marshall in 2012]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Marshall|[[Frank Marshall (filmmaker)|Frank Marshall]]}}
|-
! rowspan="2" | [[Governors Awards#15th Annual Governors Awards|2024]]
| [[File:Barbara Broccoli - Film Premiere "Spectre" 007 (22547549736).jpg|70px|alt=Broccoli in 2015]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Broccoli|[[Barbara Broccoli]]}}
|-
| [[File:Daniel Craig on Venice yacht crop w Wilson b.jpg|70px|alt=Wilson (left) and Daniel Craig in 2006]]
| scope="row" | {{sort|Robinson|[[Michael G. Wilson]]}}
|-
|}

==Other nominees==
The [[11th Academy Awards]], where the award was won by {{sort|Wallis|[[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]].

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Official website|http://www.oscars.org/governors/thalberg}}

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