The Mary Pickford Award is an honorary Satellite Award bestowed by the International Press Academy. It is "IPA's most prestigious honor" and as an award "for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to the Entertainment Industry" it reflects a lifetime of achievement.
The award is named for Canadian American Mary Pickford, early pioneer of the film industry, who began her career as a child actress and went on to become "America's Sweetheart" and a co-founder of United Artists Studios with fellow filmmakers Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith. The trophy awarded to the honorees is a bust of Pickford cast in bronze, on a marble base, inscribed for the recipient. It was designed by Sarajevan sculptor Dragan Radenović.
The award was first presented to Rod Steiger at the 1st Golden Satellite Awards.
Honorees
1996: Rod Steiger 1997: Jodie Foster 1998: Alan J. Pakula 1999: Maximilian Schell 2000: Francis Ford Coppola 2001: Karl Malden 2002: Robert Evans 2003: Arnon Milchan 2004: Susan Sarandon 2005: Gena Rowlands 2006: Martin Landau 2007: Kathy Bates 2008: Louis Gossett Jr. 2009: Michael York 2010: Vanessa Williams 2011: Mitzi Gaynor 2012: Terence Stamp 2013: Mike Medavoy 2014: Ellen Burstyn 2015: Louise Fletcher 2016: Edward James Olmos 2017: Dabney Coleman 2018: Rade Šerbedžija 2019: Stacy Keach 2020: Tilda Swinton 2021: Tom Skerritt 2022: Diane Warren 2023: Jon Landau 2024: James Woods 2025: Antonio Banderas
References
External links International Press Academy website