pirates of the caribbean - Cannes International Film Festival

Bruckheimer brought the power of the lightning bolt to television in 2000 with “C.S.I.:
Crime Scene Investigation,” starring William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger. It quickly
became the number one show on television, averaging 25 million viewers a week, and,
along with its two spin-offs, “C.S.I.: Miami”—distinguished as the biggest television
series hit on a global scale in 2005 as well as being broadcast TV’s #1 prime-time series
for the summer of 2006—and “C.S.I.: NY” helped catapult languishing CBS back to the
top of the broadcast heap. In June 2010, the Monte Carlo International TV Festival
honored “C.S.I.” with its International TV Audience Award as the most watched
television drama series in the world, with 73.8 million viewers in 2009. The film had
already won that honor previously in 2007 and ’08, with “C.S.I.: Miami” taking that prize
in 2006.
Jerry Bruckheimer Television broadened its imprint by telling compelling stories and
delivering viewers in huge numbers with such programs as “Without a Trace,” “Cold
Case,” “Dark Blue” (the producer’s first foray into cable) and seven-time consecutive
Emmy Award®–winning “The Amazing Race.” Both JBTV pilots made for the Fall 2010
season—the exciting crime procedural “Chase” for NBC and unique courtroom drama
“The Whole Truth” for ABC—were picked up by the respective networks, continuing the
company’s tradition of innovative, provocative television.
In 2004, Bruckheimer made the “Time 100,” a list of the most influential people in the
world. Also in 2004, Bruckheimer was named number one in the Power Issue of
Entertainment Weekly. Variety selected Bruckheimer as their Showman of the Year for
2006. This award—determined by Variety’s top editors and reporters—is presented to
an individual who has had significant economic impact, innovations and/or
breakthroughs in the entertainment industry.
Bruckheimer was presented with the Salute to Excellence Award from The Museum of
Television and Radio for 2006 for his contribution to the television medium. And, in
2007, the Producers Guild of America presented him with the Norman Lear
Achievement Award in Television for his extraordinary body of work in television.
In March 2010, ShoWest honored Bruckheimer with their Lifetime Achievement Award,
his fifth honor from that organization following his awards as Producer of the Year in
1985, 1988 and 1999, and Box Office Achievement in 1998. On May 17 th of the same
year—the same night as the U.S. premiere of “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time”—he
planted his hand and footprints into the concrete in the forecourt of the famed
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. On the same evening, he was
honored by the American Film Institute with a retrospective of five of his blockbuster
films, introduced by their casts and filmmakers.
In her 2008 autobiography, “In the Frame,” Dame Helen Mirren recalls Bruckheimer,
during the course of filming “National Treasure: Book of Secrets,” as “gentle, supportive
and courageous, proving the saying ‘he who dares, wins.’”
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