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Turner Traditional Films pays tribute , Robert Osborne, the late and very long time host, with the Robert Osborne Award, offered yearly on the TCM Traditional Movie Competition. The award is bestowed upon a person whose work has helped protect the cultural heritage of basic movie for future generations. In 2025, TCM honors author, director, producer and creator George Stevens, Jr. in recognition of a profession that has celebrated and championed American movie. Previous recipients have included: Martin Scorsese, Kevin Brownlow, Leonard Maltin, Donald Bogle, and Jeanine Basinger.
On January 4, 2025, President Joe Biden awarded Stevens the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation’s highest civilian honor. The White Home acknowledged Stevens for his “dedication to preserving and celebrating American movie and the performing arts…and his creativity and imaginative and prescient which have helped redeem the soul of a nation based on the ability of free expression.”
Stevens cast his personal distinctive path in movie, public service, and the humanities throughout the Kennedy Administration because the director of the Movement Image Service at america Info Company (USIA). His productions established what has been referred to as the “golden period” of USIA filmmaking.
Stevens recounts his artistic life in MY PLACE IN THE SUN: Life within the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington, an intimate account of his present enterprise household spanning 5 generations, and his personal profession in Hollywood and Washington. Historian Michael Beschloss praised Stevens “…for not solely writing an important guide however for being an important artist, an important statesman, and an important pal of democracy in a time that wants it.” Steven Spielberg noticed: “George Stevens, Jr. created his personal place within the solar and has stood the take a look at of time by way of his contribution to the tradition of the movement image and all types of the artistic arts.” Stevens’ memoir, just lately launched in paperback, can be accessible on Audible and Amazon as recorded by the creator.
Stevens has earned 15 Emmys; two Peabody Awards for Meritorious Service to Broadcasting; the Humanitas Prize; 8 awards from the Writers Guild of America; Nationwide Board of Assessment’s William Ok. Everson Award for contributions to movie historical past; the Paul Selvin Award for writing that embodies civil rights and liberties; the 2009 Spirit of Anne Frank Award for work upholding Frank’s beliefs of hope, justice, and equality; and the Legion d’honneur offered by the Authorities of the Republic of France. In 1997 Stevens acquired an Honorary Life Achievement Award from The American Movie Institute and in 2012 the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences offered him with an Honorary Oscar for “extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement.”
Stevens’ appointment in 1967 because the Founding Director of the American Movie Institute (AFI) positioned him on the forefront of tradition, politics, and movie preservation. Throughout his tenure, greater than 45,000 irreplaceable American movies have been rescued to be loved by future generations. In 1969 he established the AFI Conservatory which gained a repute because the most interesting studying alternative for aspiring filmmakers.
George Stevens, Jr. is a author, director, producer, playwright, creator, and champion of American movie. He has achieved a unprecedented artistic legacy spanning greater than 60 years, encompassing enduring cinematic and inventive productions which have enlightened audiences worldwide, and enriched the nation’s cultural heritage.
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