The legendary Hollywood producer Richard Zanuck will be the special guest of PLUS CAMERIMAGE Festival. It is our great pleasure to announce that he is the recipient of the Special Award to the Producer of Visually Outstanding Films



Pre-eminent as an independent producer, the former 20th Century Fox studio head, Richard D. Zanuck counts among the most progressive and esteemed leaders in contemporary filmmaking. In 1991 the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences recognized the high quality of his body of work by bestowing upon him and his long-time associate David Brown the illustrious Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.

Zanuck trained in film work assisting his father, Darryl F. Zanuck, on The Sun Also Rises and Islands in the Sun before producing his first feature, Compulsion, at age 24, and four years later he stood at the helm of the 20th Century Fox. During his eight years of reign the studio collected over 150 Oscar nominations, and released three Best Picture winners, The Sound of Music, Patton and The French Connection. Other successes included the Planet of the Apes series, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and M*A*S*H. After his service as senior executive vice-president at Warner Bros., where he oversaw the production of such box office hits as The Exorcist and Blazing Saddles, he founded the Zanuck/Brown Co. with David Brown in 1971. The pair scored immediately with their first collaboration, the Oscar-winning Best Picture The Sting, and then proved themselves remarkable judges of talent, breaking Steven Spielberg in as a feature director with The Sugarland Express and Jaws (Oscar-nominated for Best Picture). They also produced The Verdict (Best Picture nominee) and Cocoon. In 1988 Zanuck formed his own company. The first release was the adaptation of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer-winning play Driving Miss Daisy, a film that nobody wanted to make. But for Zanuck it turned out an auspicious start, as he received an Oscar for the producer of the Academy Award-winning Best Picture, a Golden Globe Award, The National Board of Review Award and Producer of the Year honours from the Producers Guild of America. Other projects of the Zanuck Company included the blockbuster Deep Impact, critically acclaimed Rush, Eastwood'sTrue Crime and Road to Perdition, directed by Sam Mendes. The production of Burton'sPlanet of the Apes became for Zanuck a peculiar experience which took him back through a time warp to the early days of his career. Since then the filmmakers have teamed up four times more.

Selected Filmography:

2010: Alice in Wonderland , dir. Tim Burton, cin. Dariusz Wolski
2007: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, dir. Tim Burton, cin. Dariusz Wolski
2005: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, dir. Tim Burton, zdj. Philippe Rousselot
2003: Big Fish, dir. Tim Burton, cin. Philippe Rousselot
2002: Road to Perdition, dir. Sam Mendes, cin. Conrad L. Hall
2001: Planet of the Apes, dir. Tim Burton, cin. Philippe Rousselot
1999: True Crime, dir. Clint Eastwood, cin. Jack N. Green
1998: Deep Impact, dir. Mimi Leder, cin. Dietrich Lohmann
1995: Mulholland Falls, dir. Lee Tamahori, cin. Haskell Wexler
1995: Wild Bill, dir. Walter Hill, cin. Lloyd Ahern
1991: Rush, dir. Lili Fini Zanuck, cin. Kenneth MacMillan
1989: Driving Miss Daisy, dir. Bruce Beresford, cin. Peter James
1985: Cocoon, dir. Ron Howard, cin. Don Peterman
1982: The Verdict, dir. Sidney Lumet, cin. Andrzej Bartkowiak
1975: Jaws, dir. Steven Spielberg, cin. Bill Butler
1974: Sugarland Express, dir. Steven Spielberg, cin. Vilmos Zsigmond
1962: The Chapman Report, dir. George Cukor, cin. Harold Lipstein
1959: Compulsion, dir. Richard Fleischer, cin. William C. Mellor