CinemaCon has chosen Frank Marshall to be the recipient of the International Filmmaker of the Decade Award as just announced by CinemaCon’s Managing Director Mitch Neuhauser. Marshall will receive the award on April 11, 2016, the first day of this year’s CinemaCon. Day one is designated International Day at the annual gathering of National Association of Theatre Owners, with the four day event concluding on April 14 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
“This is truly an honor for CinemaCon and the global theatrical industry,” stated Neuhauser. “Frank Marshall is known for producing some of the most iconic movies of the past few decades — including Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Color Purple, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Sixth Sense, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — to name but a few. In 2016 alone, we can expect to see The BFG, Jason Bourne, Sully, and Assassin’s Creed from this prolific producer.”
In addition to Frank Marshall, CinemaCon will honor Susan Sarandon with the Cinema Icon Award, Stephen Amell with the Male Star of Tomorrow Award, Bryce Dallas Howard with the Award for Excellence in Acting, and Nate Parker with the Breakthrough Director of the Year Award.
More on Frank Marshall, Courtesy of CinemaCon: With a career spanning more than 45 years, more than 80 films and five Academy Award® Best Picture nominations, Marshall has helped shape American cinema, producing some of the most successful and enduring films of all time. A Los Angeles native and son of composer Jack Marshall, Frank started his career as a location manager on Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show. By 1981, Marshall was working as a producer on Raiders of the Lost Ark with Steven Spielberg and future wife Kathleen Kennedy. Shortly thereafter, the trio formed industry powerhouse Amblin Entertainment, and together produced movies such as Gremlins, the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Hook, Empire of the Sun, and the Indiana Jones series.
In 1991, Marshall and Kennedy left Amblin to form their own production company, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, which produced The Sixth Sense, Signs, Seabiscuit, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, War Horse, The Armstrong Lie, and all four films in the Bourne series. In 2012, Marshall took over as sole principal of the company when partner Kennedy became Chairman of Lucasfilm. He recently produced Jurassic World and the four-hour HBO documentary Sinatra: All or Nothing at All.
