Maxwell Weinberg Publicist Showmanship Award

The Maxwell Weinberg Publicist Showmanship Award honors active members working in film and television whose achievements in publicity and promotion during the previous calendar year are deemed outstanding. The Awards Committee selects up to six nominees from the membership on either submitted materials or from an awareness of particularly noteworthy campaigns.

Award Recipients Archives

 
2023
Motion Picture: Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Pictures/Skydance/Jerry Bruckheimer Films)
Television: Abbott Elementary (Warner Bros. Television, ABC)
 
2022
Motion Picture: Spider-Man: No Way Home (Sony Pictures / Marvel Studios)
Television: Ted Lasso - Sarah Carragher (Apple TV+)
 
2020
Motion Picture: Joker
Television: The Mandalorian (Season 1)
 

2019
Motion Picture: Crazy Rich Asians
Television: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert – Ryan Aguirre (CBS Television Studios)

2018
Motion Picture: Get Out
Television: Stranger Things 2 (Denise Godoy, Unit Publicist)

2017
Motion Picture: Deadpool
Television: This is Us

2016
Motion Picture: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Television: Empire

2015
Motion Picture: The Interview
Television: Jane the Virgin 

2014
Motion Picture: Gravity
Television: American Horror Story: Coven

2013
Motion Picture: Argo
Television: Homeland

2012
Motion Picture: The Help
Television: Modern Family

2011
Motion Picture: The Social Network
Television: The Big Bang Theory

2010
Motion Picture: The Hangover
Television: NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles

2009
Motion Picture: The Dark Knight
Television: Gossip Girl

2008
Motion Picture: 300
Television: Pushing Daisies

2007
Motion Picture: Borat
Television: Ugly Betty

2006
Motion Picture: Walk the Line
Television: Lost

2005
Motion Picture: Universal Pictures, Ray
Television: Desperate Housewives

2004
Motion Picture: Disney, Pirates of the Caribbean
Television: Fox, The O.C.

2003
Motion Picture: Sony Pictures, Spider-Man
Television: ABC, The Bachelor

2002
Motion Picture: Warner Bros., Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone
Television: ABC, Alias

2001
Motion Picture: 20th Century Fox, X-Men
Television: CBS Television, Survivor

2000
Motion Picture: Dreamworks, American Beauty
Television: Warner Bros. Television, The West Wing

1999
Motion Picture: 20th Century Fox, Something About Mary
Television: Annie Fort and Kim Sandifer, ABC-TV and 20th Century Fox Television, The Practice

1998
Motion Picture: 20th Century Fox/Paramount, Titanic
Television: CBS Entertainment/Warner Bros. Television, Murphy Brown

1997
Motion Picture: 20th Century Fox Publicity, Independence Day
Television: 20th Century Fox Television, The X-Files

1996
Motion Picture: Paramount Pictures Publicity And 20th Century Fox International Publicity, Braveheart
Television: NBC and Warner Bros. Publicity Departments, Friends

1995
Motion Picture: Paramount Pictures Publicity Dept. and Clein + White, Forrest Gump
Television: Jill Lessard, Ellen

1994
Motion Picture: Universal Publicity and Marketing Departments, Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List
Television: ABC-TV, David Dyer, Steven Bochco Productions, NYPD Blue

1993
Motion Picture: Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Marketing, Aladdin
Television: Linda Keefer, Jonathan Hogan and Andrew Ships, Murphy Brown

1992
Motion Picture: Buena Vista Marketing, Beauty and The Beast
Television: Carina Sayles and Leah Krantzler, Brooklyn Bridge

1991
Members Of The ABC Television Department

1990
Motion Picture: Warner Bros. Motion Picture Publicity Department
Television: Ellen Gonzalez And Heidi Trotta, Life Goes On

1989
Bill Saul And Heidi Trotta

1988
Dan Doran And Bill Wilkins

1987
The Warner Bros. Motion Picture Publicity Department

1986
Rosalind Jarrett, Richard Bornstein and Joe Santley

1985
Marty Weiser

1984
Warren Cowan

1983
Marty Weiser

1982
Kim Rowley and Margaret Scott

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