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Morgan
Freeman
Morgan
Freeman became known nationally when he created
the popular character, "Easy Reader",
on CTW's highly praised children's show, "The
Electric Company". He then won the
Drama Desk Award, the Clarence Derwent Award and
received a Tony Award Nomination for his
outstanding performance in "The Mighty
Gents" in 1978, and received more
acclaim and an Obie Award for his appearance as
the Shakespearean anti-hero, 'Coriolanus',
at the New York Shakespeare Festival.
In
1984, Morgan won an additional Obie for his role
as 'The Messenger' in the acclaimed
Brooklyn Academy of Music production of Lee
Breuer's "Gospel at Colonus".
In 1985, he was awarded the Dramalogue Award for
the same role. Then the role of 'Hoke
Coleburn' in Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer
Prize-winning play, "Driving Miss Daisy"
won him his third Obie Award. His last stage
appearance was as 'Petruchio' in "The
Taming of the Shrew" at the New York
Shakespeare Festival's Delacorte Theater with
Tracey Ullman. Freeman's numerous television
credits include, "The Atlanta Child
Murders" and "The Execution of
Raymond Graham". In 1993, Freeman made
his film directorial debut with "Bopha!",
starring Danny Glover and Alfre Woodard, and
soon after formed Revelations Entertainment, a
production company developing entertainment
product in all existing and emerging media that
"enlightens, inspires and glorifies the
human experience."
Other
film acting credits include: "Brubaker";
"Eyewitness"; "Harry
& Sons"; "Teachers";
"Marie"; "That Was
Then, This Is Now"; "Street
Smart"; (for which won the LA, N.Y.,
and National Society of Film Critics Awards for
best supporting actor of 1987, and was nominated
for a Golden Globe award and an Academy Award);
"Clean & Sober"; "Johnny
Handsome"; "Glory";
"Driving Miss Daisy" (for which
Mr. Freeman won his second Academy Award
nomination and a Golden Globe Award, and The
Silver Bear for best actor at the Berlin Film
Festival); as well as "Chain
Reaction”, "Kiss the Girls”,
the Steven Spielberg production, "Amistad"
; Paramount productions "Hard Rain",
"Deep Impact " , "Nurse
Betty”, “Along Came a Spider”,
"Kiss the Girls" , "High
Crimes", "The Sum of All Fears"
and Warner Bros’ “Dreamcatcher”.
Morgan
is in the Warner Brothers production, “The
Big Bounce” and the new Luc Besson film
with Jet Li in 2004. He has finished shooting
“An Unfinished Life” with
producer/actor Robert Redford and Jennifer
Lopez.
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Alan
Ladd Jr.
Throughout
his career, Alan Ladd, Jr. has distinguished
himself as one of the motion picture industry's
most respected and resolute executives and
producers. His films have garnered over
150 Academy Award nominations and a remarkable
50 Academy Awards.
Ladd
began his career in the industry in 1963 as a
motion picture talent agent with Creative
Management Associates.
Five years later he shifted gears and
turned to independent production.
He moved to London, where he produced his
first nine films over a four-year period.
He returned to Los Angeles in 1973 to
become Head of Creative Affairs at Twentieth
Century Fox.
After
a series of promotions Twentieth Century Fox
named Ladd president in 1976. During his
tenure there, Fox enjoyed both financial and
critical success. He greenlit some of the most
successful and iconographic films in the
company’s history including: Star Wars (AA nom), The Omen, Julia (AA nom), Alien, Young Frankenstein,
The Towering Inferno (AA nom), Breaking Away (AA
nom), Norma Rae (AA nom), Turning Point (AA
nom), An Unmarried Woman (AA nom), and All That
Jazz (AA nom).
Shareholders also reaped the benefits of
Ladd’s reign as the stock went up a staggering
1500%.
In
1979 Ladd left Fox to form The Ladd Company.
Under this banner
Ladd produced such critical and box office
successes as The
Right Stuff (AA nom), Chariots of Fire (AA
winner), Night Shift, Blade Runner, Once Upon a
Time in America, and the Police
Academy comedies.
Six
years later after the dissolution of The Ladd
Company, Ladd once again took over the reigns at
a major studio.
In 1985 he joined MGM/UA.
While serving as Chairman and CEO of the
company, Ladd was responsible for another string
of smash hits namely,
A Fish Called Wanda, Thelma and Louise,
Moonstruck (AA nom), Spaceballs,
and Willow.
In
1993, Ladd ankled MGM to reestablish The Ladd
Company at Paramount Pictures.
This alliance yielded the Academy Award
winning Braveheart
and the Brady
Bunch movie franchise. Ladd left Paramount
in 1999 and is currently producing a variety of
projects with The Ladd Company independently.
The much-anticipated An
Unfinished Life will be released in 2004 by
Miramax.
The project re-teams Ladd with his one
time client Robert Redford and also stars Morgan
Freeman and Jennifer Lopez.
Ladd’s
career has spanned five decades.
He has found success as an agent, an
independent producer and as a studio head.
In addition to his extensive list of
credits, Ladd stays busy as a member of the
Producer's Guild of America, the American Film
Institute Second Decade Council, and as a member
of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences. He
has served on the Academy Board of Governors.
He received an honorary degree from the
University of Southern California's School of
Cinema Television, where he was instrumental in
shaping the curriculum of the Critical Studies
program.
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David
Ladd
Most
recently produced MGM's A Guy Thing,
directed by Chris Koch and starring Jason Lee
and Julia Stiles, and Hart's War, the
critically acclaimed WW11 courtroom drama
starring Bruce Willis and Colin Farrell (Tigerland)
and directed by Gregory Hoblit (Frequency,Primal
Fear).
Mr.
Ladd is preparing a variety of motion pictures
expected to start production in the near future,
including Man On Third and Godspeed
Lawrence Mann, which he will co-produce with
Michael Douglas and Further Films, with Richard
Loncraine attached to direct. Additionally,
he is in development on Men and Other Mammals,
which Kenneth Branagh will direct.
Prior
to forming his current production banner, David
Ladd Films, Ladd was executive vice president of
production for MGM. During his nine years at the
studio, he was instrumental in its resurgence,
having supervised the development and production
of numerous films, including the smash hit Get
Shorty, starring John Travolta, Gene Hackman,
Rene Russo and Danny DeVito; the courtroom
thriller Red Corner, starring Richard
Gere; the acclaimed crime drama Mulholland
Falls, starring Nick Nolte and Melanie
Griffith; The Cutting Edge; and Untamed
Heart, among others.
Ladd,
the son of legendary leading man Alan Ladd,
initially entered the world of entertainment as
a child actor. For his first starring role
in a feature film, Proud Rebel, he won a
Golden Globe Award. The film, directed by
Michael Curtiz, starred Alan Ladd and Olivia de
Havill. Ladd also appeared in such
critical and commercial successes as Dog of
Flanders, for which he won the film critics'
award from The Film Daily (forerunner of
National Society of Film Critics), and Misty.
On the small screen, he guest starred
on such classic series as Bonanza, Ben Casey
and Wagon Train. He also
starred in many live television productions,
including Tom Sawyer.
After
taking a hiatus from his acting career to earn a
degree in business from the University of
Southern California, Ladd served in the U.S. Air
Force. Upon his return to Hollywood he
found that he had developed an interest in
producing.
He
first began working in production for ABC
Television, producing movies and variety
specials. He then moved to Columbia as a
creative executive, before partnering with
renowned producer John Veitch. Ladd's first solo
producing credit on a motion picture was on the
Wes Craven thriller The Serpent and the
Rainbow.
In
1989, Ladd joined his brother, Alan Ladd,Jr., as
Vice President of Production for Pathe, which
subsequently became MGM. He remained with
the company until his recent return to
independent production, stepping in to produce The
Mod Squad for MGM.
Ladd
makes his home in Los Angeles with his wife,
actress Dey Young, and his two daughters, Jordan
and Shane.
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George
Stevens Jr.
For more than thirty-five years, George Stevens, Jr. has combined a motion picture and television career in Hollywood with a life of public service in Washington, D.C. – two strands of a dual career, which Stevens says, "reinforce and nurture each other."
An award-winning producer, writer and director of film and television productions, Stevens is the founder of the American Film Institute.
He has received eleven Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards and four Writers Guild Awards for his television productions.
Two network television events he created are among the most honored programs on the air,
The Kennedy Center Honors, now in its 26th year, and
The American Film Institute Life Achievement
Award. Christmas in Washington is another television event he created which he produced for the 22nd year in December.
He has been honored by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund for "his commitment to making films that raise social consciousness and examine human values," and won an Emmy in 1991 for the acclaimed ABC miniseries
Separate But Equal starring Sidney Poitier, which he wrote, produced and directed.
Stevens' other work includes the Emmy Award-winning 1988 miniseries
The Murder of Mary Phagan, starring Jack Lemmon and his widely honored motion picture about his father,
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey.
Stevens was the Executive Producer of
The Thin Red Line (1998), which was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. Based on James Jones' novel, it starred Sean Penn, Woody Harrelson and Nick Nolte.
Mr. Stevens worked with his father on Shane and Giant and was the Associate Producer & Director of location scenes on The Diary of Anne Frank. He is extremely happy to be here tonight to honor his father and to continue to foster the legacy of
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John
Mulholland
Mr.
Mulholland is the writer/director of COOPER
& HEMINGWAY: THE TRU GEN, a documentary
on the 20 year friendship between Gary
Cooper and Ernest Hemingway, to be released
later this year. He is also the writer/director
of the upcoming documentary on SHANE.
Mr.
Mulholland wrote and directed INSIDE HIGH
NOON, about the dramatic events behind
the making of HIGH NOON.
He
is currently writing, for Heeltap Entertainment,
the screenplay for HEMINGWAY, a feature film
based on the life of Ernest Hemingway.
Mr.
Mulholland lives with his family in New York
City.
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