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
2024
Motion Picture:Barbie (Warner Bros.)
Television: Ahsoka (Walt Disney Studios)
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