# David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures

The David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures is awarded annually by the Producers Guild of America (PGA) at the Producers Guild of America Awards ceremonies recognizing the individual's outstanding body of work in motion pictures. The award category was instituted in 1989 and first awarded at the 1st Producers Guild Awards.

## History

The award is named after American film producer David O. Selznick (1902–1965). As of the 34th Producers Guild of America Awards, there have been 40 awards presented.

## Award winners

| Year | Image | Recipient(s) | Notes | Nationality | Ref. |
| 1989 (1st) | | Hal Roach | Roach is the 1st recipient of this award. He founded Hal Roach Studios in 1914 and produced the films of silent film comedians Laurel and Hardy and Harold Lloyd. | USA | |
| 1990 (2nd) | | Stanley Kramer | A prolific filmmaker who directed "message pictures" such as The Defiant Ones (1958), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). | USA | |
| 1991 (3rd) | | Pandro S. Berman | He received six nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture for The Gay Divorcee (1934), Alice Adams and Top Hat (both 1935), Stage Door (1937), Father of the Bride (1950), and Ivanhoe (1952). | USA | |
| 1992 (4th) | | Richard D. Zanuck | Together Zanuck and Brown headed their own production company turning out mega hits like The Sting (1973), Jaws (1975), and Driving Miss Daisy (1989). | USA | |
| 1992 (4th) | | David Brown | Together Zanuck and Brown headed their own production company turning out mega hits like The Sting (1973), Jaws (1975), and Driving Miss Daisy (1989). | USA | |
| 1993 (5th) | | Saul Zaentz | A producer who won the Academy Award for Best Picture for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Amadeus (1984), and The English Patient (1996). | USA | |
| 1994 (6th) | | Howard W. Koch | Kock was appointed the head of film production at Paramount Pictures in 1964 from 1966 when he left to set up his own production company. | USA | |
| 1995 (7th) | | Walter Mirisch | He was the president and executive head of the independent film production company The Mirisch Corporation, which he formed in 1957. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture for In the Heat of the Night (1967). | USA | |
| 1996 (8th) | | Billy Wilder | An acclaimed and prolific filmmaker who directed such films as Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), Some Like It Hot (1959), and The Apartment (1960). | USA | |
| 1997 (9th) | | Clint Eastwood | Eastwood has produced and directed numerous films including Unforgiven (1992), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Mystic River (2003), and Million Dollar Baby (2004). | USA | |
| 1998 (10th) | | Steven Bochco | Bochco developed a number of television series, including Hill Street Blues; L.A. Law; Doogie Howser, M.D.; Cop Rock; and NYPD Blue. | USA | |
| 1999 (11th) | | Jerry Bruckheimer | Bruckheimer has produced films like Flashdance (1983), The Rock (1995), Crimson Tide (1995), Con Air (1997), Armageddon (1998), Enemy of the State (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), Black Hawk Down (2001), as well as the Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Bad Boys, Pirates of the Caribbean, and National Treasure franchises. | USA | |
| 2000 (12th) | | Brian Grazer | Grazer is the producing partner of Ron Howard and together they created Imagine Entertainment in 1986. He produced numerous projects including the films Splash (1984), Apollo 13 (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and Frost/Nixon (2008). | USA | |
| 2001 (13th) | | Lawrence Gordon | He specializes in producing action-oriented films and other genres. Some of his most popular productions include 48 Hours (1982), Predator (1987), Die Hard (1988), Die Hard 2 (1990), Predator 2 (1990), Point Break (1991), Boogie Nights (1997), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and Prey (2022). | USA | |
| 2002 (14th) | | Robert Evans | Evans was a legendary studio executive and producer best known for his work on Rosemary's Baby (1968), Love Story (1970), The Godfather (1972), and Chinatown (1974). | USA | |
| 2003 (15th) | | Dino De Laurentiis | He was an Italian film producer and businessman who produced numerous films. | Italy | |
| 2004 (16th) | | Laura Ziskin | She was the executive producer of Pretty Woman (1990) and producer of Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Spider-Man 3 (2007). | USA | |
| 2005 (17th) | | Roger Corman | A trailblazer in the world of independent film producing numerous B films of the 1950s and 1960s. | USA | |
| 2006 (18th) | | Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher | | USA | |
| 2007 (19th) | | Frank Marshall | Together Marshall and his wife Kennedy founded the production company Amblin Entertainment, along with Steven Spielberg. In 1991, he founded, with Kennedy, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, a film production company. | USA | |
| 2007 (19th) | | Kathleen Kennedy | Together Marshall and his wife Kennedy founded the production company Amblin Entertainment, along with Steven Spielberg. In 1991, he founded, with Kennedy, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, a film production company. | USA | |
| 2008 (20th) | | Michael Douglas | An American film actor who has produced numerous films including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), The China Syndrome (1979), Romancing the Stone (1984), The Jewel of the Nile (1985), and The Rainmaker (1997). | USA | |
| 2009 (21st) | | John Lasseter | Lasseter acted as the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Disneytoon Studios, as well as the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering. | USA | |
| 2010 (22nd) | | Scott Rudin | Rudin is a producer of numerous projects ranging from film, television and theatre becoming one of the 19 people to win the Emmy Award, Grammy Award, Oscar, and Tony Award. | USA | |
| 2011 (23rd) | | Steven Spielberg | A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, he is the most commercially successful director in history. Spielberg co-founded Amblin Entertainment in 1980 and DreamWorks in 1994, and he has served as a producer for many successful films and television series. | USA | |
| 2012 (24th) | | Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan | Together Fellner and Bevan founded the production company Working Title Films in 1983 which has produced numerous British and America films. | UK New Zealand |
| 2013 (25th) | | Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli | Broccoli and Wilson are best known for producing numerous films within the James Bond franchise. | USA UK | |
| 2014 (26th) | | Gale Anne Hurd | Hurd is the founder of Valhalla Entertainment (formerly Pacific Western Productions), and a former recording secretary for the Producers Guild of America. | USA | |
| 2015 (27th) | File:David Heyman in 2016.jpgborder | David Heyman | Heyman is best known for producing the Harry Potter, the Fantastic Beasts, and the Paddington franchise films. He also has produced films for Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, and Quentin Tarantino. | UK | |
| 2016 (28th) | | Irwin Winkler | Winkler produced numerous films starting with the Elvis Presley musical Double Trouble (1967) followed by, the critically acclaimed films They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), Rocky (1976), Raging Bull (1980), The Right Stuff (1983), and Goodfellas (1990). | USA | |
| 2017 (29th) | | Charles Roven | Roven is the president and co-founder of Atlas Entertainment and produced the superhero films The Dark Knight Trilogy (2008), Man of Steel (2012), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and Suicide Squad (2016). | USA | |
| 2018 (30th) | | Kevin Feige | He has been the president of Marvel Studios and the primary producer of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise since 2007. | USA | |
| 2019 (31st) | | Brad Pitt, | In 2001, they co-founded the production company Plan B Entertainment. They produced The Departed (2006), 12 Years a Slave (2013), and Moonlight (2016), all of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and were also nominated for The Tree of Life (2011), Moneyball (2011), Selma (2014), and The Big Short (2015). | USA | |
| 2019 (31st) | | Dede Gardner | In 2001, they co-founded the production company Plan B Entertainment. They produced The Departed (2006), 12 Years a Slave (2013), and Moonlight (2016), all of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and were also nominated for The Tree of Life (2011), Moneyball (2011), Selma (2014), and The Big Short (2015). | USA | |
| 2019 (31st) | | Jeremy Kleiner | In 2001, they co-founded the production company Plan B Entertainment. They produced The Departed (2006), 12 Years a Slave (2013), and Moonlight (2016), all of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and were also nominated for The Tree of Life (2011), Moneyball (2011), Selma (2014), and The Big Short (2015). | USA | |
| 2020 (32nd) | not awarded | not awarded | not awarded | not awarded | not awarded |
| 2021 (33rd) | | Mary Parent | She is a former President of Production for Universal Pictures and she co-founded Disruption Entertainment in 2011, a company with a first-look deal at Paramount Pictures, and co-produces films with Legendary Entertainment. She was formerly the Chairperson of Metro Goldwyn Mayer's Worldwide Motion Picture Group. | USA | |
| 2022 (34th) | | Tom Cruise | Cruise formed Cruise/Wagner Productions in 1993, and the company has since co-produced several of Cruise's films, the first being Mission: Impossible in 1996 which was also Cruise's first project as a producer. Cruise has produced many films in which he appeared, including Mission: Impossible, Without Limits, Mission: Impossible 2, The Others and Vanilla Sky. | USA | |
| 2023 (35th) | | Martin Scorsese | Scorsese is a legendary and acclaimed filmmaker known for directing such iconic films as Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990), The Departed (2006), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Irishman (2019), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). | USA | |
| 2024 (36th) | | Chris Meledandri | Meledandri is the founder and CEO of the animation studio Illumination and the second animation producer to receive the award. | USA | |