{"id":2306115,"date":"2026-03-01T06:25:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T06:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2306115"},"modified":"2026-03-01T06:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T06:25:21","slug":"pgas-david-o-selznick-honoree-amy-pascal-on-what-makes-a-great-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/pgas-david-o-selznick-honoree-amy-pascal-on-what-makes-a-great-producer\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA\u2019s David O. Selznick Honoree Amy Pascal On What Makes A Great Producer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">\u201cThe way I became a producer was pretty f*cked, then I got lucky, then it was all pretty hard anyway,\u201d said former <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0732568\/\">Sony Pictures Entertainment<\/a> co-Chair turned tentpole producer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1166871\/\">Amy Pascal<\/a> during her sage and pragmatic acceptance speech for the David O. Selznick Award at the PGAs tonight. That sarcastic<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0918964\/\">PGA<\/a>\u2019s David O. Selznick Award recognizes a producer or producing team for their extraordinary body of work in motion pictures. Tonight <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0177827\/\">Pascal<\/a> joined a distinguished line of recipients that includes <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000229\/\">Steven Spielberg<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0110483\/\">Barbara Broccoli<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000697\/\">Billy Wilder<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0550881\/\">Frank Marshall<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005086\/\">Kathleen Kennedy<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0661289\/\">Mary Parent<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000129\/\">Tom Cruise<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000217\/\">Martin Scorsese<\/a> and last year\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm17344163\/\">Chris Meledandri<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The producer of the Tom Holland Spider-Man movies, Spiderverse animated trilogy and the upcoming Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt12042730\/\">Project Hail Mary<\/a> laid out a list of axioms for being a producer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll my life people have said relationships are bad for business, I really struggle with that,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe way I became a producer was pretty f*cked, then I got lucky, then it was all pretty hard anyway,\u201d said former Sony Pictures Entertainment co-Chair turned tentpole producer Amy Pascal during her sage and pragmatic acceptance speech for the David O. Selznick Award at the PGAs tonight. That sarcastic The PGA\u2019s David O. Selznick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2306116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2306115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PGAs-David-O-Selznick-Honoree-Amy-Pascal-On-What-Makes.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306117,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306115\/revisions\/2306117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2306116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}