Western Heritage Awards – III
En esta tercera parte del reportaje dedicado a los Premios Western Heritage, vamos a conocer los concedidos en las áreas de Film de Televisión y Documental, Películas de cine, ficción de drama para televisión, narrativa histórica, programas de televisión históricos, y premios especiales.
Un recorido completo que nos permite obtener una visión amplia y global de la cultura Western norteamericana, su dimensión y su importancia esencial como punto de referencia para diversas manifestaciones artísticas, literarias, cinematográficas, etc.
El cuidado y el trabajo artesanal de quienes participan en el desarrollo y la creación cultural del universo Western, ha permitido que esta parte esencial de la cultura norteamericana, tenga la misma vigencia de siempre y proyecte sus raíces en el tiempo.
Los Western Heritage Awards colocan en el panorama las mejores demostraciones de esta cultura genuinamente americana y reconocen la excelencia allí donde se produce, sin necesidad de subvenciones públicas ni apoyos gubernamentales. Es la demostración de que una cultura ancestral puede pervivir en el tiempo y seguir viva gracias a la labor honesta de los herederos del Western, que imprimen talento, pasión, y energía a sus proyectos y trabajos.
Una lección de buen hacer, trabajo, calidad, y pasión por el Western.
Film/Television – Western Documentary
1961 Four Seasons West, Max Howe Film Productions for South Dakota Stockgrowers Assn.
1962 101, WKY-TV; Gary Allen, Producer and Scott Berner, Director.
1963 Appaloosa, Fred Rice Productions for Appaloosa Horse Club.
1964 Pioneer Painter, Gene Allen, Producer, & Cliff Atkins, Director.
1965 Age of the Buffalo, National Film Board of Canada; Nicolas Bella & Austin Campbell, Directors; M. Charles Cohen, Author.
1966 The Beautiful Tree, Chishkale-University of California Extension Media Center; Clyde B. Smith, Director; William R. Heick, Photographer.
1967 The Five Civilized Tribes: An Unfinished Journey, KTUL-TV; Bob Gregory, Author; Greg Howard, Musician; Gene Lyons, Editor; Jack Morris, Director; Harold D. Statum, Photographer.
1968 Tie: Colorado: Prehistoric Man, Barbre Productions, Inc. for the State Historical Society for Colorado; Kenneth A Meyer, Director.
Time of the West, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, Guggenheim Productions.
1969 Born to Buck, Casey Tibbs Productions; Richard McCarty, Photographer; Dick Stabile, Composer; Casey Tibbs, Producer.
1970 The Golden Spike, Barbre Productions, Inc. for the National Park Service; Kenneth A. Meyer, Director; Royal Dano, Narrator.
1971 Rodeo, Concepts Unlimited, Inc and Contemporary Films/McGraw Hill; Gaby Monet, Producer; Carroll Ballard, Director; Freckles Brown & Larry Mahan, Actors.
1972 The Last of the Wild Mustangs, Leo Burnett Co. for Marlboro Cigarettes; Norman Muse, Producer; Gus Jekel, Director; Orson Welles, Narrator.
1973 Bighorn, Marty Stouffer, producer.
1974 The Great American Cowboy, Kieth Merrill, producer/director; Larry Mahan & Phil Lyne, Actors.
1975 Going Down the Road, Kieth Merrill, producer/director for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
1976 Red Sunday: The Battle of the Little Bighorn, Pyramid Films; Mary Actor, Author; Jack Graff, James Graff, and Robert Henkel, Producers; Jim Kelly, Director; John McIntire, Narrator.
1978 More than Bows and Arrows, Cinema Associates, Inc.; N. Scott Momaday, Narrator; Conrad Denke, Director; Ron Forsell, Author; Roy Williams, Producer
1979 Lucy Covington: Native American Indian, Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation.
1980 Art in Taos: The Early Years, Dana E. Balibrera, writer/director/producer.
1982 Oklahoma Gems, Steve Newmann, Lee Allen Smith, KTVY Channel 4.
1983 Edward Fraughton, of Heroes and Horses, Kenneth A. and Claudia Meyer, Ken Meyer Productions; William G. Kerr.
1984 Buffalo Cokedale, Colorado Cowboy Life, Jim Redmond, producer.
1985 1915: Panama Pacific Fair, University of California at Berkeley, Burton Bennett, producer/narrator; Monica Fletcher, director.
1986 Cowgirls: Portraits of American Ranch Women, Nancy Kelly, producer/director; Teresa Jordan, writer; Norma Hapgood, Melody Harding, Cricket Long, and Nondi Long, Cowgirls.
1987 The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt, Harrison and Marilyn Engle, producers; Theodore Strauss, writer; George C. Scott, narrator.
1988 A $10 Horse and a $40 Saddle, Bryan Dew, producer/director, John Crowley, writer; Levon Helm, narrator.
1989 Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo, Martha Sandlin and Barbara Abrash, co-producers; Oklahoma State University and Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities.
1990 Oklahoma Passage, OETA, Bill Thrash and Bob Allen, executive producers; Kenneth A. Meyer, director.
1991 Custer’s Last Trooper, Arts & Entertainment Network, Bill Armstrong, producer.
1992 The Platte River Road, NETV, Nebraska Public TV, Michael Farrell, producer/director/writer.
1993 The Donner Party, Steeplechase Films for The American Experience; a production of WGBH of Boston; Judy Crichton, executive producer; Ric Burns, writer/director/producer; Lisa Ades, producer.
1994 The Real West, a Greystone Communications production for the A&E Network; Craig Haffner, Donna E. Lusitana, Steve Lewis, executive producers; Kenny Rogers, narrator.
1995 Ishi, the Last Yahi, an Ishi Film Project production; Jed Riffe and Pamela Roberts, executive producers; Stephen Lighthill, photographer; Anne Makepeace, writer; Linda Hunt, principal actress.
1996 How The West Was Lost, The Discovery Channel and KUSA-TV of Denver, Colorado; Chris Wheeler, Producer; Sonny Hutchison, Director; Michael Winship, Writer.
1997 Bloomers To Ballots, KRMA-TV, Denver, Colorado; Lisa D. Olken, Producer, Photographer, Editor; Sherry Niermann, Series Producer.
1998 Lewis and Clark, PBS, Florentine Films, Walpole, New Hampshire; Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns, Producers; Ken Burns, Director; Dayton Duncan, Writer.
1999 The New Explorers ~ Betrayal At Little Big Horn, Kurtis Productions, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois; Bill Kurtis, Executive Producer; Gary Foreman, Producer/Writer.
2000 TimeWatch: Tales of the Oklahoma Land Runs, BBC TV, London; Jonathan Gili, Executive Producer/Writer; Laurence Rees, Executive Producer.
2001 The Real Cowboy: Portrait of An American Icon, Time Machine: The History Channel; Kurtis Productions, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois; Bill Kurtis, Executive Producer; Nicole Ewing, Writer/Producer; Gary L. Foreman, Producer/Writer.
2002 Seth Eastman: Painting the Dakota, Twin Cities Public Television, Inc., Afton Historical Society Press; Fred de Sam Lazaro, Executive Producer; Kristian Berg, Producer/Director/Writer; Peter Coyote, Narrator/Actor.
2003 Daniel Boone and The Westward Movement, Native Sun Productions; Gary Foreman, Executive Producer; Carolyn Raine, Producer; Paul Hutton, Writer; Scott New, Principal Actor and Narrator.
2004 Images of Indians: How Hollywood Stereotyped the Native American, Starz Encore Entertainment – The Westerns Channel; Jason Witmer: Co-Director, Chris O’Brien: Co-Director, Brock DeShane: Writer/Associate Producer.
2005 Sam Peckinpah’s West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade, Starz Entertainment Group in Association with FBN.
2006 The Last Cowboy, Jon Alpert, Producer/Director. DCTV.
2007 Ride Around the World, Producers: Jeff Fraley and Brady Dial; Executive Producer/Director/Writer: Harry Lynch.
2008 Cowboys in Tall Grass, Cox Communications.
2009 The Challenge of Champions: The Story of Lane Frost & Red Rock, Producers: David Wittkower, Principle Actors: Clyde & Elsie Frost, John Growney
Theatrical Motion Pictures
1961 The Alamo, Batjac; United Artists; James Edward Grant, Writer; Laurence Harvey, Richard Widmark, & John Wayne, Actors.
1962 The Comancheros, 20th Century Fox; Michael Curtiz, Director; George Sherman, Producer; Clair Huffaker & James Edward Grant , Writers; Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, & John Wayne, Actors.
1963 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Paramount Pictures; Willis Goldbeck, Producer; John Ford, Director; James Warner Bellah, Writer; Lee Marvin, Edmund O’Brien, James Stewart, Vera Miles, & John Wayne, Actors.
1964 How the West Was Won, Cinerama-MGM; John Ford, Henry Hathaway, & George Marshall, Directors; James R. Webb, Writer.
1965 Cheyenne Autumn, Warner Brothers; Bernard Smith, Producer; John Ford, Director; James R. Webb, Writer.
1966 The Sons of Katie Elder, Hall Wallis-Paramount Pictures; Hal Wallis, Producer; Henry Hathaway, Director; Earl Holliman, Martha Hyer, Dean Martin, Jeremy Slate, & Michael Anderson, Jr.
1967 Appaloosa, Universal Pictures; Sidney J. Furie, Director; Robert MacLeod, Writer; John Saxon, Anjanette Comer, & Marlon Brando, Actors.
1968 The War Wagon, Universal Pictures; Burt Kennedy, Writer/Director.
1969 Will Penny, Paramount Pictures; Tom Gries, Director; Charlton Heston, Actor.
1970 True Grit, Hall Wallis-Paramount Pictures; Hal Wallis, Producer; Henry Hathaway, Director; Margarite Roberts, Writer; Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, & John Wayne, Actors.
1971 A Man Called Horse, Cinema Center Films-National General Pictures; Sandy Howard, Producer; Elliot Silverstein, Director; Jack DeWitt, Writer; Dame Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Corinna Tsopei, & Richard Harris, Actors.
1972 The Cowboys, Warner Brothers; Tim Zinnemann, Producer; Mark Rydell, Director; Harriet Frank, Jr., William Dale Jennings, & Irving Ravetch, Writers; Charles Tyner, Lonny Chapman, Roscoe Lee Browne, Colleen Dewhurst, & Bruce Dern, Actors.1973 Jeremiah Johnson, Warner Brothers; Joe Wizan, Producer; Sydney Pollack, Director; John Milus & Edward Anhalt, Writers; Will Geer, Delle Bolton, & Robert Redford, Actors.
1974 The New Land, Warner Brothers; Bengt Forslund, Producer; Jan Troell, Director; Eddie Axberg, Liv Ullmann, & Max Von Sydow, Actors.
1976 Bite the Bullet, Columbia Pictures; John Champion, Director; Richard Brooks, Writer; Ben Johnson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Candice Bergen, James Coburn & Gene Hackman, Actors.
1981 Heartland, Beth Ferris, Annick Smith, executive producers; Michael Hausman, Producer; Richard Pearce, Director; Conchata Ferrell, Megan Folsom, Lilia Skala, & Rip Torn, Actors.
1984 Never Cry Wolf, Carroll Ballard, director.
1989 Young Guns, Morgan Creek Productions; John Fusco and Chris Cain, producers; Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, and Kiefer Sutherland, actors.
1991 Dances With Wolves, Orion Pictures; Kevin Costner, director/actor; Jim Wilson, Producer; Rodney Allen Grant, actor.
1992 Thousand Pieces of Gold, Mother Lode Productions; Lindsay Law, executive producer; Kenji Yamamoto, producer; Nancy Kelly, director; Ann Makepeace, writer; Rosalind Chao and Chris Cooper, actors.
1993 Unforgiven, Malpaso Production with Warner Brothers; Clint Eastwood, producer/director; David Valdes, executive producer; David Webb Peoples, writer; Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, actors.
1994 Geronimo: An American Legend, Walter Hill/Neil Canton Production, a Columbia Pictures release; Walter Hill, director; Walter Hill and Neil Canton, producers; John Milius and Larry Gross, screenplay; Michael S. Glick, executive producer; Lloyd Ahern, director of photography; Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall and Wes Studi, actors.
1995 Legends of The Fall, TriStar release; Ed Zwick, director; Bill Wittliff, writer and producer; Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt, principal actors.
1999 Hi-Lo Country, Gramercy Pictures; Rudd Simmons, Executive Producer; Martin Scorsese, Barbara DeFina, Eric Fellner, and Tim Bevan, Producers; Stephen Frears, Director; Walon Green, Screenwriter; Woody Harrelson, Bill Crudup, Patricia Arquette, and Sam Elliott, Principal Actors.
2003 Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, DreamWorks Pictures; Mireille Soria, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Producers; Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook, Directors; John Fusco, Screenwriter; Principal Actors – Animated film with voice talent: Matt Damon, James Cromwell, Daniel Studi.
2004 Open Range, Tig Productions; Armyan Bernstein, Executive Producers; Craig Storper, Executive Producer & Writer; David Valdes & Jake Eberts, Producers; Principal Actors, Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Michael Jeter.
2006 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Tommy Lee Jones, Michael Fitzgerald, Luc Besson, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Producers; Guillermo Arriaga, Writer
2007 Truce, Executive Producer: Thadd Turner; Director/Writer/Producer: Matthew Marconi; Executive Producer/Producer: James R. Dodds; Principal Actors: Buck Taylor, Samantha Droke.
2008 3:10 to Yuma, Lionsgate.
2009 Appaloosa, Producers: Ed Harris & Robert Knott, Director: Ed Harris, Writers: Robert Knott & Ed Harris
Television Feature Film
1990 Lonesome Dove, Motown-Pangaea in association with Ointex Entertainment Productions; Bill Wittliff, writer/executive producer; Suzanne de Passe, executive producer; Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Angelica Huston, stars.
1991 Across Five Aprils, The Family Channel; Mike Gwatney & Kevin Meyer, Producers; Todd Duffey, Actor.
1992 Conagher, TNT, Turner Network Television. Sam Elliott, executive producer; John A. Kuri, producer; Reynaldo Villalobos, director; Jeffrey Meyer, Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross, writers; Sam Elliott, Katherine Ross and Barry Corbin, co-stars.
1993 O, Pioneers! the 172nd presentation of the Hallmark Hall of Fame, CBS, Craig Anderson, executive producer; Glenn Jordan, producer/director; Jessica Lange with David Strathairn, co-stars; written for television by Robert W. Lenski, based on the novel by Willa Cather.
1994 Return to Lonesome Dove, RHI Entertainment, Inc., CBS, Robert Halmi Jr., and Suzanne de Passe, executive producers; Mike Robe, director; Dyson Lovell, producer; John Wilder, screenplay; Jon Voight, Barbara Hershey, and Rick Schroder, actors.
1995 Lakotawoman: Siege at Wounded Knee, A Fonda Films Production; Lois Bonfiglio, executive producer; Fred Berner, producer; Frank Pierson, director; Bill Kerby, screenplay; Irene Bedard, principal actress.
1996 Streets Of Laredo, de Passe Entertainment and Levinson Products, in association with RHI Entertainment, Inc., a division of Hallmark Entertainment, CBC; Suzanne de Passe, Robert Halmi Jr., Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana, and Larry Levinson, executive producers; Larry Levinson, producer; Joe Sargent, director; Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, writers; James Garner, Sissy Spacek, and Sam Sheppard, principal actors.
1997 Riders Of The Purple Sage, Turner Network Television; Charles Haid, Director;Gill Dennis, Writer; Ed Harris and Amy Madigan, Actors and Executive Producers; David Rosemont, Exectuive Producer.
1998 Last Stand At Sabre River, Turner Network Television; Michael Brandman and Tom Selleck, Executive Producers; Brandman Productions, Inc.; Mary Ann Brauback, Tom Kane, Steven Brandman, Producers; Dick Lowry, Director; Ronald Cohen, Elmore Leonard, Writers; Tom Selleck, Keith Carradine, Actors.
1999 Two For Texas, Turner Network Television; Lois Bonfiglio, Executive Producer; Dennis Bishop, Producer; Rod Hardy, Director; Larry Brothers, Writer; Irene Bedard, Kris Kristofferson, Peter Coyote, Tom Skerritt, and Scott Bairstow, Actors.
2000 You Know My Name, Turner Network Television; Ancient Mariner, Santa Monica, California; Amy Adelson and Brandon Stoddar, Executive Producers; John Kent Harrison, Writer/Director; Andrew Gottlieb, Producer; Sam Elliot, Executive Producer/Principal Actor; Arliss Howard and Carolyn McCormick, Principal Actors.
2000 DIRECTORS’ AWARD FOR TELEVISION FEATURE FILM
Purgatory, Turner Network Television; Rosemont Productions International, Encino, California; David Rosemont, Executive Producer; Daniel Schneider, Producer; Uli Edel, Director; Gordon Dawson, Writer; Sam Shepard, Randy Quaid, Eric Roberts, and Brad Rowe, Principal Actors.
2001 The Virginian, Turner Network Television; Daniel H. Blatt, Executive Producer; Bill Pullman, Lynn Raynor, Ruth Fainberg, Producers; Bill Pullman, Director; Larry Gross, Screenwriter; Bill Pullman, Diane Lane, John Savage, Dennis Weaver, Principal Actors
2002 Crossfire Trail, Turner Network Television; Michael Brandman and Tom Selleck, Executive Producers; Thomas Kane and Steve Brandman, Producers; Simon Wincer, Director; Charles Robert Carner, Writer; Tom Selleck and Virginia Madsen, Actors.
2003 King of Texas, Turner Network Television with Hallmark Entertainment; Robert Halmi Sr., Patrick Stewart, Executive Producers; Art Levinson, Wendy Neuss-Stewart, Producers; Uli Edel, Director; Stephen Harrigan, Writer; Patrick Stewart, Marcia Gay Harden, Lauren Holly, Julie Cox, David Alan Grier, Roy Scheider, Principal Actors.
2004 Monte Walsh, Brandman Productions/TWS Productions; Tom Selleck, Executive Producer & Principal Actor; Bobby Roberts & Steven Brandman, Producers;
2005 The Trail to Hope Rose, Hallmark Channel.
2006 Into The West
Steven Spielberg, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, David Rosemont, William Mastrosimone, Kirk Ellis, Larry Rapaport, Producers Matthew Settle, Skeet Ulrich, Tonantzin, Irene Bedard, Michael Spears, Zahn McClarnon, Rachael Leigh Cook, Actors. TNT/DreamWorks Television.
2007 Broken Trail
Executive Producer/Actor: Robert Duvall; Executive Producer: Rob Carliner; Producers: Damian Ganczewski and Chad Oakes; Writer/Producer: Alan Geoffrion; Director Producer: Walter Hill; Actor: Thomas Haden Church.
2008 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Wolf Films and Traveler’s Rest Films in association with HBO Films.
Factual Narrative
1990 Billings Bound, Bob Kane, producer/director.
1991 Cougar: Ghost of the Rockies, ABC World of Discovery; Dennis B. Kane, executive producer; Jim Dutcher, producer; David O?Dell, Writer; Richard Kiley, narrator.
1992 Chances With Wolves, Prime Time Live, ABC; Richard Kaplan, executive producer; Bob Calo, producer; Jay Schadler, correspondent.
1993 Legends of the West with Jack Palance, 819 Productions; Igo Kantor and Jack Palance, executive producers; Tom Daniels and Dennis Park, producers; Bob Cardos, director; Roger Galloway, writer.
1994 Beyond Eden’s Gate, KPTV, Oregon Public Television; Steve King, executive producer; Trish Neiworth, producer; Larry Bollinger, director; Jeff Gustin, photographer; Jack McGowan, narrator.
1995 Poachers’ Paradise, ABC News Day One; Tom Yellin, executive producers; Kevin Cosgrove, producer; John McKenzie and Kevin Cosgrove, writers; John McKenzie, reporter.
1997 Sagebrush Symphony, KLRU-TV and Aurora Productions for Austin City Limits; Michael Martin Murphey, Narrator; Jim Ed Norman, Producer; Gary Menotti, Director; Terry Lickona, Producer; Tim Weeks and Kevin Kipp, Co-Executive Producers.
1998 The Oklahoma Traveler In No Man?s Land, KOTV-Tulsa, Oklahoma; Scott Thompson, Producer/Writer/Reporter; Grant Gerondale, Photographer.
1999 Oklahoma Cowboy, KFOR-TV, Oklahoma City; Galen Culver, Writer/Reporter/Producer.
2000 Annie Oakley: Crackshot in Petticoats, Greystone Communications, North Hollywood, California; Graig Haffner and Donna Lusitana, Executive Producers; Arthur Drooker, Producer/Director/Writer.
2002 There’s No Place Like California, Donald E. Collins, Deputy Superintendent, Executive Producer; Dr. Peter G. Mehas, Superintendent; Dan Pessano, Director; Jack Hannah (Sons of the San Joaquin) Writer/Narrator.
2003 Spirit of Colorado, «Cowboys», Rocky Mountain PBS KRMA-TV; John W. Burshtan, Executive Producer; Lisa D. Olken, Kim Kendrick, Producers; Lisa D. Olken, Director.
2004 The Cowboy Way, ABC News Nightline; Leroy Sievers & Tom Bettag, Executive Producers; Keith Kay, Producer, Reporter & Photographer; Sara Just, Senor Producer; Mike Proser, Editor; Ted Koppel, Managing Editor; Chris Bury, Anchor.
2005 Teen Kids News: Cowgirl Museum, Alan Weiss Productions.
2006 Willa Cather–The Road is All
Christine Lesiak, Producer/Writer
Joel Geyer, Producer/Director
NET Television
2007 Young At Art, Executive Producers: Bill Perry OETA and Bill Thrash OETA. Photographer: Randy Hayes OETA.
2008 100 Years of John Wayne, Starz Entertainment.
Factual Television Program (1961-1989)
1961 The Great Lounsberry Scoop (Death Valley Days); Nat Perrin, Producer; Ruth Woodman, Writer.
1962 The Real West (Project Twenty) NBC; Gary Cooper, Narrator; Philip Reisman, Writer; Donald B. Hyatt, Producer.
1963 The Hat that Wore the West (Death Valley Days); Sidney Salkow, Director; Robert Stabler, Producer; Irwin Winehouse & A. Sanford Wolf, Writers; Frank Buxton, Actor.
1964 The American Cowboy (Discovery ’63) ABC; Jules Power, Producer; Lou Volpicelli, Director; Sol Stember, Writer; Frank Buxton, Actor.
1965 Tie:
The Hanging Judge, WKY-TV; Gene Allen, Producer; Jerry Powell, Writer; Virgil Dominic, Narrator.
They Went That-a-Way, Wolper Productions; Jack Halley, Jr., Director; Terry Sanders, Producer.
1966 Tie:
Custer to the Little Bighorn, ABC; William Hartigan, Photographer; John F. Hughes & Helen Jean Rogers, Directors; John H. Secondari, Producer.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, NBC; Dexter Alley & Richard Norling, Photographers; Calvin P. Tompkins, Writer; Ted Yates, Producer; Lorne Greene, Narrator.
1967 An Iron Horse in Silver Pastures, Discover, ABC; Joseph Hurley, Writer; Daniel Wilson, Producer; Virginia Gibson & Bill Owen, Actors.
1968 The End of the Trail, Project Twenty NBC; Robert Garthwaite, Producer.
1969 The Bonanza Years, KRON-TV; Aldo H. Constant, General Manager.
1970 The West of Charles Russell, Project Twenty, NBC; Robert Garthwaite & Donald B. Hyatt, Producers; Richard Hansen, Director; Frederick G. Renner
1971 The Last of the Westerners, ABC; James Benjamin, Producer; David Tapper, Director; Robert Ryan, Narrator.
1973 Gone West, The America Series, NBC; Alistair Cooke, Writer; Michael Gill, Producer; Tim Slessor, Director
1974 Conrad Schwiering, Mountain Painter, KTWO-TV; Duane Barr, Director; Jack Rosenthal, Producer; Conrad Schwiering.
1975 The American Parade: The 34th Star, CBS; Joel Heller, Producer; Robert Markowitz, Director; Richard Kiley & Ronny Claire Edward, Actors.
1976 I Will Fight No More Forever, ABC; Stan Margulies & David L. Wolper, Producers; James Whitmore, Ned Romero, & Sam Elliott, Actors.
1978 The American Idea: The Glory Road West, ABC; Terry Sanders, Producer; Henry Fonda, Chad Everett, and Buffy Saint-Marie, Narrators.
1979 Ishi, the Last of His Tribe, NBC; Eloy Phil Casados, Actor.
1980 John Denver’s Rocky Mountain Reunion, ABC; Mark Stouffer, Producer; John Denver, Performer.
1981 The Lone Star Cowboy, KPRC-TV David K. Boles, producer; Kenneth D. Cockroft, Photographer.
1982 Hidden Places, Nebraska Educational Television; Philip Abbott, Host; Gene Bunge, Director; Steve Robbins, Producer.
1983 Light in the West: Photography and the American Frontier; Michael Blackwood, Producer; Ray Witlin, Director.
1984 Cowboy, John Bass, producer; Steve Torbeck, co-producer.
1985 Custer’s Battlefield, Good Morning America, ABC; Fred Farrar, Producer.
1986 The New Capitalists: Economics in Indian Country, Stephen R. Heiser, director; Char B. Rowlinson, executive director; Eric Sevareid, narrator.
1987 Houston, The Legend of Texas, Frank Q. Dobbs, producer; Peter Levin, director; John Binder, G.D. Spradlin, Sam Elliott, actors.
1988 On the Range, (20/20, ABC, Rob Wallace, producer; Bob Brown, writer.
1989 Cowboy Poets, Kim Shelton, producer.
Fictional Television Drama
1961 Incident At Dragoon Crossing, an episode from «Rawhide», CBS; Ted Post, Director; Charles Marquis Warren, Producer; John Dunkel, Writer; Dan O’Herlihy, Sheb Wooley, Paul Brinegar, Eric Fleming, & Clint Eastwood, Actors.
1962 The Sendoff, an episode from «Rawhide», CBS; Endre Bohem, Producer; George Templeton, Director; John Dunkel, Sheb Wooley, Paul Brinegar, Eric Fleming, Clint Eastwood, & Darren McGavin, Actors.
1963 The Contender, an episode from «Stoney Burke», ABC; Leslie Stevens, Director; Robert Dowdell, Warren Oates, & Jack Lord, Actors.
1964 Incident Of Iron Bull, an episode from «Rawhide», CBS; Vincent M. Fennelly, Producer; Christian Nyby, Director; Carey Wilber, Writer; Paul Brinegar, Eric Fleming, Clint Eastwood, Michael Ansara, & James Whitmore, Actors.
1965 Corporal Dasovik, an episode from «Rawhide», CBS; Bruce Geller, Producer; Bernard L. Kowalski, Director; Lionel E. Siegel, Writer; Nick Adams, John Barrymore, Jr., & Eric Fleming, Actors.
1966 The Horse Fighter, an episode from «The Virginian», NBC; Richard Fielder, Writer; Tony Leader, Director; Norman Macdonnell & James McAdams, Producers; Randy Boone, Lee J. Cobb, James Drury, Harry Guardino, Clu Gulager, Doug McClure, & Diane Roter, Actors.
1967 Tie:
The Intruders, an episode from «The Monroes», ABC; Bernard L. Kowalski, Director; Frederick Brogger & Al C. Ward, Producers; Otis Carney, Writer; Michael Anderson, Jr. & Barbara Hershey, Actors.
Death Watch, an episode from «Gunsmoke», CBS; Calvin Clements, Writer; Phillip Leacock & John Mantley, Producers; Mark Rydell, Director; Albert Salmi, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis, Milburn Stone, & James Arness, Actors.
1968 Bitter Autumn, an episode from «The Virginian», NBC; Joel Rogosin, Producer; John McIntire, John Anderson & Jeanette Nolan, Actors.
1969 The Buffalo Soldiers, an episode from «The High Chaparral», NBC; David Dortort, Director; Leif Erickson, Perry Fluker, Lenton Glascow, & Yaphet Kotto, Actors.1970 The Wish, an episode from Bonanza, NBC; David Dortort & Michael Landon, Directors; Richard Collins, Producer; Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Ossie Davis, Roy Jenson, Harry Page, Barbara Parrio, George Spell, & Jerry Summers, Actors.
1971 Run, Simon, Run, «Movie of the Week», ABC; Lionel E. Siegel, Writer; George McGowan, Director; Aaron Spelling, Producer; Burt Reynolds, Actor.
1972 Pike, an episode from «Gunsmoke», CBS; Leonard Katzman & John Mantley, Producers; Jack Miller, Writer; Bernard McEveety, Director; James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Jeanette Nolan, Dack Rambo, Glenn Strange, & Buck Taylor, Actors.
1973 Hec, an episode from «Heck Ramsey», NBC; William Finnegan & Jack Webb, Producers; Daniel Petrie, Director; Harold Jack Bloom, Writer; Sharon Acker, Rick Lenz, & Richard Boone, Actors.
1974 Pioneer Woman, «Movie of the Week», ABC; Buzz Kulik, Director; Richard Rosenbloom, Producer; Suzanne Clauser, Writer; David Janssen, Joanna Pettet, & William Shatner, Actors.
1975 The Little House On The Prairie, NBC; Ed Friendly, Producer; Michael Landon, Melissa Sue Anderson, Melissa Gilbert, & Karen Grassle, Actors.
1976 The Macahans, MGM-TV, (later titled How The West Was Won); John Mantley, Producer; Jim Byrnes & Albert S. Ruddy, Writers; Bernard McEveety, Director; Bruce Boxleitner, Eva Marie Saint, Richard Kiley, & James Arness.
1978 Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion, NBC; Ed Friendly, Producer; Michael O?Herlihy, Director; Jack Turley, Writer; Leif Garrett & Milo O’Shea, Actors.
1979 The Longhorns, an episode from «Centennial, Part VI», NBC; John Wilder, Writer; Robert Conrad, Actor. Stubby Pringle?s Christmas, NBC; Gilbert & Joseph Cates, Producers; Beau Bridges, Actor.
1980 The Last Ride of the Daltons, NBC; Dan Curtis, Director; Randy Quaid & Cliff Potts, Actors.
1983 The Legend of Walks Far Woman; Roger Gimbel & Lee Levinson, Producers; Evan Hunter, writer; Raquel Welch, Actress.
1984 September Gun; Bill Brademan and Ed Self, producers; Patty Duke Astin & Robert Preston, Actors.
1985 Calamity Jane, Jane Alexander, producer/actress; Suzanne Clauser, writer.
1986 The Dream, Special Short Feature Award, Joseph Pytka; Ben Johnson, Narrator.
1987 Stagecoach, Ray Katz and Willie Nelson, executive producers; Willie Nelson, Waylong Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Elizabeth Ashley, actors.
1988 Independence, NBC, Joseph B. Wallenstein, producer; John Patterson, director; Gordon Dawson, Writer; John Bennett Perry, Isabella Hofmann, actors.
1989 Stray Bullet, an episode from «Paradise», CBS; David Jacobs, Bob Porter, Jim Conway, & Joel Feigenbaum, producers; Sigrid Thornton, Lee Horsley, actors.
1990 The Kid, an episode from «The Young Riders», ABC; Ed Spielman, producer; Jonas McCord, Director.
1991 Requiem For A Hero, an episode from «The Young Riders», ABC; Christopher Seitz, Jonas McCord, & Ed Spielman Producers; Virgil Vogel, Director; Bruce Reisman, Writer.
1992 The Peacemakers, an episode from «The Young Riders», ABC; Jonas McCord, executive producer; Christopher Seitz, producer; James Keach, director; Charles Grant Craig, writer.
1993 Shadowman, an episode from «The Young Riders», ABC; Scott Sheperd, executive producer; James Keach, producer; James Brolin, director; Charles Grant Craig, Writer; Anthony Zerbe, Josh Brolin, actors.
1994 Oscar an episode from Ned Blessing: The Story of My Life and Times, a Wittliff/Pangaea Production; Bill Wittliff, executive producer; David Hemmings, director; Bill Scott, producer; Bill Wittliff, Stephen Harrigan, writers; Brad Johnson, Tim Scott, actors.
1997 Legend ~ an episode from Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, CBS; Jane Seymour and Joe Lando, actors; Willie Nelson, guest actor; Alan J. Levi, director; Timothy Johnson, producer; Carl Binder and Beth Sullivan, co-exercutive producers.
1998 Burying Sam from Dead Man’s Gun, Showtime, Sugar Entertainment, Ltd.; Larry Sugar, Producer; Henry Winkler, Ed Spielman, and Howard Spielman, Executive Producers; Bill Gereghty, Director; Larry Drake and Ken Pogue, Actors.
1999 The Judgment of Joe Dean Bonner from «Dead Man’s Gun», Sugar Entertainment, Ltd.; Ed Spielman and Howard Spielman, Creator/Executive Producer; Larry Sugar, Producer; Renee Bonniere, Director; Howard D. Friedlander, Writer; Brian Austin Green, Principal Actor.
2000 The Regulator from «Dead Man’s Gun», Sugar Entertainment, Ltd, Vancouver, Canada; Ed Spielman and Howard Spielman, Creator/Executive Producers; Larry Sugar, Producer; Paul Etherington, Director; Rogers Turrentine, Writer; Bill Campbell and Heather Hanson, Principal Actors.
2004 29 Seconds, Episode of Peacemakers, Outpost Productions, Inc/USA Cabl; Rick Ramage & Charlie Craig, Executive Producer; Rob Wright, Producer & Writer; Richard Heus, Producer; Jean Desegonzac, Director; Principal Actors, Tom Berenger, Peter O’Mara and Amy Carlson.
Special Awards
1963 Special Award to the John B. Stetson Company for The Hat That Wore the West-Death Valley Days.
1965 Special Trustees Award to Tim Babcock for World’s Fair Display on the West.
Special Trustees Award to W. E. McIntosh, Principal Chief of the Creek Nation.
1967 Special Trustees Award to the University of Oklahoma Press for publication of Western Americana.
Special Trustees Award toBen K. West for Service to Western Heritage Awards Committee.
1970 Special Trustees Award to Arizona Highways Magazine.
Special Trustees Award to Swiss National Television Network for Far West: The Indians.
1971 Special Award to Yakima Canutt for more than 50 years of outstanding contributions to Motion Pictures.
Special Award to Craig Fisher for documentary Survival on the Prairie.
1972 Trustees Award to John Rolfe Burroughs for Guardian of the Grasslands.
Trustees Award to John Ford for Outstanding Contribution to the Motion Picture Industry.
Trustees Award to Dorothy Harmsen for Harmsen’s Western Americana.
Trustees Award to Winchester-Western.
Trustees Award to Wyoming Stock Growers Association.
1973 Trustees Award to Dale Robertson for Outstanding Contribution to Western Film.
Trustees Award to William H. Clothier for Outstanding Contribution to the Motion Picture industry through Cinema photography.
Trustees Award to Ben K. Green for unique contribution to the pure enjoyment of our western heritage and knowledge of an heretofore unconsidered apsect of this heritage in Some More Horse Tradin’.
Trustees Award to Agnes Spring for Outstanding Contribution to Preservation of Western Heritage as historian.
1974 Trustees Award to Dimitri Tiomkin for Outstanding Musical Contribution to Western Motion Pictures.
Trustees Award to Alfrey Y. Allee for Outstanding Career as a Courageous Texas Ranger.
Trustees Award to Carl G. Degen, Jr. for Excellent Educational Western Documentary film, The Excavation of Mound Seven.
Trustees Award to Howard Hawks for Outstanding Contribution to the West through Motion Pictures.
Trustees Award to Luke Short for illustrious career as an author of western stories.
Trustees Award to Korczak Ziolkowski for unique contribution to preserving Western Heritage through the Crazy Horse Memorial.
1975 Trustees Award to James Whitmore for Superb One-Man Show based on the Life of the illustrious Will Rogers.
Trustees Award to Robert Adams for The Architecture and Art of Early Hispanic Colorado, which best illuminates a little known aspect of the American West.
Trustees Award to Delmer Daves for outstanding contribution as director and producer of great Western Motion pictures.
Special Merit Award to recognize great western motion pictures made prior to 1960- honored were Union Pacific and The Westerner.
Trustees Award to Watt Matthews for preserving Western history.
Trustees Award to Oklahoma Today for outstanding editorial and pictorial effort in presenting information about Oklahoma to its citizens.
Trustees Award to Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys for For the Last Time an outstanding contribution to historical preservation of an important western art form.
1976 Trustees Award to Spike Van Cleve, David Hoffman, Harry Wiland and Gordon Bowman for Spike Van Cleve: An American Portrait, an outstanding short documentary reflecting the West of today.
Trustees Award to John Champion and Joel McCrea for Outstanding Family Entertainment in a Western Motion Picture, Mustang Country.
Trustees Award to Margaret Harper for being founder and driving force of the truly Western Americana pageant, Texas.
Trustees Award to W. L. Lawrence for being widely recognized student, collector, and historian of the American fur trade.
Trustees Award to George O’Brien for outstanding career portraying the Western movie hero.
Trustees Award to George H. Shirk for outstanding author, lecturer, and leader in historical preservation.
1977 Trustees Award to Luis Ortega for lifetime achievement.
1978 Frontier Heritage, Seuil Audiovisual, producer; Claude Fleouter, writer/director; Denys Limon, writer; Harold Warp, creator of pioneer village, Minden, Nebraska; Paul Aaron, host of Cowboy Joe’s Radio Ranch and Prairie Echoes.
1979 Special Presentation-World Preview of the television drama, The Sacketts, Louis L’Amour, author; Jeff Osterhage, Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, actors; Henry C. Hathaway, film director; Paul Huntley, cowboy and author; Joseph P. Jerkins, Western Heritage Awards producer; Marty Robbins, entertainer; Charles Banks Wilson, artist.
1980 Ed Rutherford, collector of Western artifacts; James A. Michener, author; John Ford Award to Sam Peckinpah.
1981 Alfred A. Knopf, publisher; John Mantley, television producer; Buck Taylor, actor.
1982 Elsa Spear Byron, author/photographer; Johnny Grant, entertainer.
1983 Trustees Award to Thomas Hornsby Ferril for his poetry.
Trustees Award to Luke Decatur Sweetman for Gotch, the Story of a Cow Horse and Back Trailing on the Open Range.
1984 Trustees Award to Ed Quigley.
Trustees Award to Carl Sherwin for contribution to preservation of our western heritage.
Trustees Award to Harry E. Webb.
Burl Ives presented with an Entertainment Arts Gold Medal.
1985 Trustees Award to Louis L’Amour.
Trustees Award to the Montana Stock Growers Association.
Trustees Award to Otha Wearin for support of the preservation of western heritage.
1987 Joe Wietsky: Cowboy, Bill Kelly and Allison Brown, producers.
The Movies Go West, Geoffrey Bell, producer.
1989 Special Award for Outstanding Achievement in a New Format: Alamo: The Price of Freedom, (IMAX Format); Kieth Merrill, producer/director
Special award for Significant Scholarly Research: Platte River Road Narratives; Merrill J. Mattes, editor; University of Illinois Press, publisher.
1990 Special Music Award: Santa Fe Spirit, Arlene Markinson, producer
Special Television Feature Award: Desperado, E.W. Swackhammer,director; Chuck Sellier, producer; Alex McArthur, actor.
Lifetime Contribution to Western Art Award: Robert Lougheed (award accepted by his widow, Cordy Lougheed).
1991 Special Award for Historical Excellence: The Man They Call Will James, Gwendolyn Clancy, University of Nevada, Reno, producer; Richard Farnsworth, narrator.
Special Award for the Preservation of Authentic Western Music: Cowboy Logic Michael Martin Murphey, producer/composer.
1992 Directors’ Award for Excellence in a Theatrical Presentation: The Will Rogers Follies, Pierre Cossette, Martin Richards, Sam Crothers, James M. Nederlander, Stewart Lane, and Max Weitzenhoffer, producers; Tommy Tune, director/choreographer; Cy Coleman, composer; Betty Comden and Adolph Green, lyricists; Keith Carradine, actor.
Directors’ Award for Exellence in a Television Presentation: Legends of the American West, Marino Amoruso, writer/director/producer; Ben Johnson and Harry Carey Jr., actors.
1993 Directors’ Award for Oustanding Study of Western Material Culture: The Peacemakers: Arms and Adventures in the American West, R.L. Wilson, author; Random House, Inc., New York, publisher.
1995 Directors’ Award for outstanding contributions to western music: Sons of the Pioneers.
1996 Special Award To TNN – In recognition of their leadership for providing the Hall’s first national television special, A Cowboy Jubilee: Celebrating the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, in April, 1995.
A Special Award for Innovation in Western Music: Sagebrush Symphony, Michael Martin Murphey, recording artist; Jim Ed Norman, producer.
1996 Wilson Hurley for Outstanding Achievement in Art following formal dedication of his five monumental «Windows to the West» triptychs.
1997 Directors’ Award For Special Literary Achievement – Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, by Peter H. Hassrick and Melissa J. Webster; the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming.
Directors’ Award For Special Recognition – the late Frank «Pistol Pete» Eaton.
Directors Award for Excellence in Original Western Television Production – Turner Network Television (TNT).
1999 Director’s Award For Outstanding News Magazine Feature Wild Horses; Executive Director, Victor Neufeld; Producer, Rob Wallace; Reporter, Hugh Downs; ABC News 20/20.
Special Directors’ Award For Special Recognition of marking the location of the Chisholm Trail, where it was located between the years of 1871-1874, across the state of Oklahoma – Robert L. Klemme, Enid, OK.
1999 Special Directors’ Award; Buffalo Bill’s Wild West ~ An American Legend, R. L. Wilson and Greg Martin, Authors, Random House, Publisher.
2000 Directors’ Award for Television Feature Film – Purgatory (TNT) Executive Producer, David Rosemont; Producer, Daniel Schneider; Director, Uli Edel; Edel; Writer, Gordon Dawson; Principal Actors, Sam Shepard, Randy Quaid, Eric Roberts, and Brad Rowe; Rosemont Productions International, Encino, CA.
Directors’ Award for Excellence in Dramatic Presentation and Original Music Composition – The Last Cowboy – His Journey, Executive Producer/Composer/Recording Artist, R.W. Hampton; Executive Producer, Lisa Hampton; Producer, Rich O’Brien.
2001 Directors’ Award: Bob Brown, Big Bear City, California – Leather maker and designer to the Hollywood stars of early westerns.
2002 Special Directors’ Award: By Dawn’s Early Light, Randall C. Badger, Dan Paulson, and Robert Halmi Jr., Executive Producers; Bob Chmiel, Co-Executive Producer; Arthur Allan Seidelman, Director; Jacqueline Feather and David Seidler, Writers; Richard Crenna and David Carradine, Actors.
2006 Board of Directors’ Lifetime Achievement Award, A.C. Lyles, Paramount Pictures Producer.
2007 Board of Directors’ Lifetime Achievement Award, Dean Smith, Hollywood Stuntman, Actor and 1952 Olympic Gold Medalist.
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