ShoWest Producer of the Year 2001
Writers Guild of America (East) Evelyn F Burkey Award 1999
ShowEast Lifetime Achievement Award 1998
IFP Gotham Award Producer/Industry Executive 1993
New York Film Critics Circle Award Best Picture "The Player" 1992
Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award 1990
2001 Served as a producer on the semi-sequel "Along Came a Spider", with Morgan Freeman reprising his role as Dr Alex Cross (from "Kiss the Girls")
2001 Served as producer of the stage musical adaptation of "Sweet Smell of Success"; production opened in Chicago before moving to NYC in spring 2002
2000 Received Best Picture Oscar nomination as producer of "Chocolat"
1999 Produced "Angela's Ashes", the film adaptation of Frank McCourt's memoir
1998 Reteamed with Zanuck as producer of "Deep Impact"
1997 Produced "Kiss the Girls" and "The Saint"
1992 Was a producer on the Academy Award nominated "A Few Good Men"
1988 Produced the sequel "Cocoon: The Return"
1988 Founded and served as president, The Manhattan Project Ltd
1985 Enjoyed a box-office hit as producer of "Cocoon"
1982 Produced (with Zanuck) "The Verdict"; received Best Picture Oscar nomination
1978 Served as producer of the sequel "Jaws 2"
1975 Was the producer of the Oscar-nominated "Jaws", helmed by Spielberg
1974 With Zanuck, produced "The Sugarland Express", which marked the feature directorial debut of Steven Spielberg
1973 First films released by Zanuck/Brown, "Sssssss" and the Oscar-winning Best Picture "The Sting"
1972 Co-founded Zanuck/Brown Company with partner Richard Zanuck; dissolved company 1988
1967 Made vice president story operations, 20th Century-Fox
1956 Appointed member of executive staff of Darryl F Zanuck
1952 Joined 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. as managing editor of the story department in L.A.
1949 Worked as editorial director for the national education campaign of the American Medical Association
1937 - 1939 Became night editor and assistant drama critic for Fairchild Publications, New York
1936 Worked as apprentice reporter and copy-editor at San Francisco News and The Wall Street Journal
Worked as a stringer for The New York Times
Made editorial director for the Milk Research Council, New York
Became associate editor, Street & Smith Publishers, New York
Served as 1st lieutenant with US Army military intelligence during WWII
Named associate editor, then executive editor and editor-in-chief, Liberty magazine, New York
Joined Cosmopolitan magazine as associate editor; then made managing editor
Contributed stories and articles to many national magazines such as Collier's, Harper's and Saturday Evening Post
Made story editor and head of scenario department, 20th Century-Fox
Made member of executive staff, 20th Century-Fox studios and executive studio story editor
Became a producer for 20th Century-Fox
Left Fox to become editorial vice president, New American Library of World Literature, Inc
Returned to 20th Century-Fox as executive, story operations
Promoted to executive vice president, creative affairs and member of the board of directors, 20th Century-Fox
Left Fox to join Warner Bros. as executive president of creative operations and member of the board of directors
