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- Height5′ 3½″ (1.61 m)
- Eight-time Academy Award®-nominated, Kathleen Kennedy is one of the most successful and respected producers and executives in the film industry today. As President of Lucasfilm, she oversees the company's three divisions: Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound. In 1992, she co-founded the production company The Kennedy/Marshall Company with director/producer Frank Marshall, and in 1982 she co-founded Amblin Entertainment with Marshall and Steven Spielberg. Altogether, Kennedy has further produced or executive produced more than 70 feature films, which have collectively garnered 120 Academy Award nominations and 25 wins.
For much of the past 20 years, Kennedy served as a governor and officer of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and serves on the board of the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. She also sits on the boards of numerous educational, arts, and philanthropic organizations.- IMDb Mini Biography By: The Hollywood Commission Official Site Bio
- SpouseFrank Marshall(1987 - present) (2 children)
- Got her first producing job on the low-budget Steven Spielberg blockbuster E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and, to this day, frequently works as a producer on many of his films, including Schindler's List (1993), Jurassic Park (1993) and Munich (2005).
- Named co-chairman, with George Lucas, of "Lucasfilm".
- Graduated from Shasta High School in Redding, California.
- Produced eight films nominated for Best Picture Oscars: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), The Color Purple (1985), The Sixth Sense (1999), Seabiscuit (2003), Munich (2005), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), War Horse (2011) and Lincoln (2012), and was executive producer on Best Picture winner, Schindler's List (1993). However, she has never won an Academy Award.
- (November 18, 2018) She and her husband Frank Marshall were awarded with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. She is the first and currently only woman to receive the award.
- Believe and set your sights on the fact that you can do it. It's certainly a goal any woman can have, just like any man.
- But what I always find interesting is when you take the areas of writing, producing and directing. I don't think there's a great deal of discrimination -- although I'm completely perplexed and confused as to why there aren't more women. For instance, if we're looking for new, young directors, which is something we do all the time, we certainly never go look at films because they're directed by a man or a woman. We look at films because they are winning awards, they're good, and it has nothing to do with gender. And women certainly have equal opportunity to get into a university like UCLA or USC, to get into the film department, to take the same courses to allow them to make films, to deal with a whole gamut of subject matter, and yet I don't know what happens. There's something that happens in the process of getting there that seems to turn many women away.
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