He served as Academy president for four terms in the 1970s and is the only person to receive the best picture prize and the Thalberg and Hersholt awards.
In the Heat of the Night
colleagues were honored in 1998 by the Academy with a specially restored print in celebration of the film’s 30th anniversary. The drama, directed by Jewison from Stirling Silliphant’s screenplay and starring Rod Steiger as a Mississippi lawman and Poitier as a Black detective investigating a murder in a racist southern town, won five Oscars in all.
“Even today, it has a lot to say to us,” Mirisch said during the 1998 ceremony. “Instead of mounting a soapbox and making speeches, it makes its point by dramatizing how a southern redneck sheriff and an eastern, Black detective are finally able to see one another not as stereotypes but as individuals.”Mirisch also served three terms as president of the Producers Guild of America and was the recipient of its David O. Selznick Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995.
In 1976, he was the recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, that organization’s highest film honor., starring Joel McCrea, and went on to produce such shows as
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