OSCAR HISTORY: Irving G. Thalberg Award Recipients 
The Academy states that the Thalberg Award is a special Academy Award given to a creative producer whose body of work reflects a consistently high quality of motion picture production. It was a way to honor film producers, those film artists who often start up the whole packaging of all a film's elements, once they had achieved a consistent level of high quality motion pictures. Not awarded every year, it's definitely one of the top honors in the film industry for producers, and here were the ones so honored by the Academy.
2018: Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall
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2010: Francis Ford Coppola
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2009: John Calley
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2000: Dino De Laurentiis
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1999: Warren Beatty
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1998: Norman Jewison
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1996: Saul Zaentz
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1994: Clint Eastwood
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1991: George Lucas
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1990: David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck
1987: Billy Wilder
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1986: Steven Spielberg
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1981: Albert R. Broccoli
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1979: Ray Stark
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1977: Walter Mirisch
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1976: Pandro S. Berman
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1975: Mervyn LeRoy
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1973: Lawrence Weingarten
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1970: Ingmar Bergman
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1967: Alfred Hitchcock
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1966: Robert Wise
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1965: William Wyler
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1963: Sam Spiegel
1958: Jack L. Warner
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1956: Buddy Adler
1953: George Stevens
1952: Cecil B. DeMille
1951: Arthur Freed
1950: Darryl F. Zanuck
1948: Jerry Wald
1946: Samuel Goldwyn
1944: Darryl F. Zanuck
1943: Hal B. Wallis
1942: Sidney Franklin
1941: Walt Disney
1939: David O. Selznick
1938: Hal B. Wallis
1937: Darryl F. Zanuck