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. The trophy for award recipients is in the form of a bust of Thalberg rather than the familiar "Oscar" statuette.
For this award, the year shown is the year when the award was presented.
- 1938 – Darryl F. Zanuck
- 1939 – Hal B. Wallis
- Other nominees in 1939 (the only year for which non-winning nominations were announced):
- 1940 – David O. Selznick
- 1942 – Walt Disney
- 1943 – Sidney Franklin
- 1944 – Hal B. Wallis
- 1945 – Darryl F. Zanuck
- 1947 – Samuel Goldwyn
- 1949 – Jerry Wald
- 1951 – Darryl F. Zanuck
- 1952 – Arthur Freed
- 1953 – Cecil B. DeMille
- 1954 – George Stevens
- 1957 – Buddy Adler
- 1959 – Jack L. Warner
- 1962 – Stanley Kramer
- 1964 – Sam Spiegel
- 1966 – William Wyler
- 1967 – Robert Wise
- 1968 – Alfred Hitchcock
- 1971 – Ingmar Bergman
- 1974 – Lawrence Weingarten
- 1976 – Mervyn LeRoy
- 1977 – Pandro S. Berman
- 1978 – Walter Mirisch
- 1980 – Ray Stark
- 1982 – Albert R. Broccoli
- 1986 – Steven Spielberg
- 1988 – Billy Wilder
- 1991 – David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck
- 1992 – George Lucas
- 1995 – Clint Eastwood
- 1997 – Saul Zaentz
- 1999 – Norman Jewison
- 2000 – Warren Beatty
- 2001 – Dino De Laurentiis
No award was presented in the following years: 1941, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1972-1975, 1979, 1981, 1983-1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002-2009.
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