News: ShoWest 2003
Brian Grazer to be honored with Lifetime Achievement
Award
Los Angeles, January 22,
2003 — Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer will
be honored with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at
ShoWest 2003, it was announced today by Robert Sunshine, Chairman
of Sunshine Group Worldwide (SGW), which operates the annual convention.
Grazer will receive his award at the annual Gala Awards Banquet,
sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company, to be held at Bally’s
and Paris Hotel on Thursday evening, March 6th.
“Over the course of his career Brian Grazer has amassed
an incredible body of stand-out work that spans almost all genres
and mediums,” said Sunshine. “With his Oscar win last
year and the recent success of 8 Mile, we are proud to add the
ShoWest Lifetime Achievement Award to what must be a very crowded
shelf.”
Brian Grazer, who is co-chairman of Imagine Entertainment along
with Ron Howard, has been personally nominated for three Academy
Awards, and in 2002 he won the Best Picture Oscar for A Beautiful
Mind. In addition to winning three other Academy Awards, A Beautiful
Mind also won four Golden Globe Awards (including Best Motion
Picture Drama) and earned Grazer the first annual Awareness Award
from the National Mental Health Awareness Campaign.
This year, Grazer produced 8 Mile, starring Eminem, which received
numerous critical accolades. Its opening weekend, the film grossed
$51.2 million dollars (the highest ever for an R-rated non-sequel).
Over the years, Grazer’s films and TV shows have been nominated
for a total of 39 Oscars and 17 Emmys. At the same time, his movies
have generated more than $10.5 billion in worldwide theatrical,
music, and video grosses. Reflecting this combination of commercial
and artistic achievement, the Producers Guild of America honored
Grazer with the David O. Selznick Lifetime Achievement Award in
2001. His accomplishments have also been recognized by the Hollywood
Chamber of Commerce, which in 1998 added Grazer to the short list
of producers with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In addition, Grazer’s films include Apollo 13, for which
Grazer won the Producers Guild’s Daryl F. Zanuck Motion
Picture Producer of the Year Award as well as an Oscar nomination
for Best Picture of 1995, and Splash, which he co-wrote as well
as produced and for which he received an Oscar nomination for
Best Original Screenplay of 1986. Among his other films are Blue
Crush; Undercover Brother; The Grinch; Nutty Professor; Liar,
Liar; Ransom; My Girl; Backdraft; Kindergarten Cop; Parenthood;
Clean and Sober; and Spies Like Us. Coming up in 2003 are
the eagerly anticipated The Cat in the Hat, starring Mike Myers
and Intolerable Cruelty, the next feature from the Coen brothers,
starring George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Grazer’s television productions include 2003’s Golden
Globe Best Television Series – Drama Nominee 24, the WB’s
Felicity, ABC’s SportsNight, as well as HBO’s From
the Earth to the Moon, for which he won the Emmy for Outstanding
Mini-Series.
Celebrating its 29th year, ShoWest is the world's largest motion
picture industry convention. The 2003 edition of ShoWest will
be held from March 3rd - 6th at Bally's and Paris Las Vegas and
at this time it is expected that more than 5000 members of the
industry will be on hand. Each year, ShoWest attracts delegates
from more than 45 countries in North and South America, Europe,
Asia and Australia. ShoWest was founded by the National Association
of Theatre Owners of California and Nevada, and the 2001 show
was the first managed by Sunshine Group Worldwide, a division
of VNU Expositions.
For more info, visit www.showest.com
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