Newly crowned Warner Bros Film Group Co-Chairpersons and CEOs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy will receive The Producers Guild of America’s 2023 Milestone Award.
16.10.2022 - 23:37 / variety.com
Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features Editor Though his movies have made billions at the box office and he’s been awarded pretty much every major accolade, from the Oscars to the Emmys to a Grammy, Ron Howard has achieved an honor even more rare: He’s maintained his reputation as one of the nicest guys in the business. It’s why the team behind Fox’s animated hit “The Simpsons” got such a kick out of portraying Howard as the ultimate Hollywood stereotype in his several appearances on the show. Howard would show up, often clad in a baseball cap and bathrobe while sipping a martini — even at a movie premiere or going to a special zoo for famous people. (For the record, Howard knew how his cartoon doppelgänger would be drawn: “I was in on the joke,” he assures Variety.)
His composure and creative output are even more impressive considering that Howard has literally grown up in the spotlight. By age five he was cast in “The Andy Griffith Show” and he spent his 20’s on “Happy Days” before segueing into a wildly successful career behind the camera as a director and producer. And after six decades in the business, the 68-year-old Howard is still putting out some of his best work. August saw the release of his latest feature film “Thirteen Lives,” the true-life story of the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue, in which the world came together to free members of a Thai soccer team and their coach. Currently streaming on Amazon Prime, the film is both epic and intimate in its storytelling, and marks a staggering technical achievement, recreating the cave and tunnel system in five different water tanks. Howard will be feted for his career with Variety’s Legends and Groundbreakers Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival Honors on Oct. 16
Newly crowned Warner Bros Film Group Co-Chairpersons and CEOs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy will receive The Producers Guild of America’s 2023 Milestone Award.
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