IPA News Item

IPA salutes James Woods with its prestigious Mary Pickford Award for the 29th Satellite™ Awards presentation

Los Angeles, CA – January 25, 2025 – The International Press Academy (IPA) is proud to name actor and producer James Woods as the recipient of one of its highest honors, the Mary Pickford Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to the Entertainment Industry for the 29th Annual Satellite™ Awards presentation.

Woods joins the esteemed ranks of previous honorees that include Rod Steiger, Alan J. Pakula, Francis Ford Coppola, Maximillian Schnell, Karl Malden, Arnon Milchan, Robert Evans, Louis Gossett Jr., Kathy Bates, Jodie Foster, Susan Sarandon, Vanessa Williams, Gena Rowlands, Mitzi Gaynor, Martin Landau, Michael York, Terence Stamp, Mike Medavoy, Ellen Burstyn, Louise Fletcher, Edward James Olmos, Tilda Swinton, Diane Warren, and most recently Jon Landau.

“Known for his fast-talking, intense roles on screen and stage, James Woods has received numerous accolades, including three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. He started his career in minor roles on and off Broadway before making his major Broadway debut in The Penny Wars (1969), followed by Borstal Boy (1970), The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1971) and Moonchildren (1972). Woods’ early film roles include The Visitors (1972), The Way We Were (1973) and Night Moves (1975). He also starred in the NBC miniseries Holocaust (1978) opposite Meryl Streep.

Woods rose to prominence portraying Gregory Powell in The Onion Field (1979). He earned two Academy Awards nominations: one for Best Actor for his role as journalist Richard Boyle in Salvador (1986) and another for Best Supporting Actor playing white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith in Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). Notable film roles include in Videodrome (1983), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Hard Way (1991), Chaplin (1992), Nixon (1995), Casino (1995), Contact (1997), Vampires (1998), Another Day in Paradise (1998), Any Given Sunday (1999), and The Virgin Suicides (1999). He also served as an executive producer on Christopher Nolan’s biographical drama film Oppenheimer (2023).

For his television roles, he is the recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying D.J. in the CBS movie Promise (1987) and Bill W. in the ABC film My Name Is Bill W. (1989). He also played Roy Cohn in Citizen Cohn (1992) and Dick Fuld in Too Big to Fail (2011). He starred in the CBS legal series Shark (2006–2008), and had a recurring role in the Showtime crime series Ray Donovan (2013). He has voiced roles for Hercules (1997), Recess: School’s Out (2001), Stuart Little 2 (2002) and Surf’s Up (2007), as well as voicing himself several times on both The Simpsons (1993), and Family Guy (2005–2016).”