It's been a great week for Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy.
According to the Thompson Reuters Foundation, the Star Wars producer and Lucasfilm president has just been recently awarded the annual Irving G. Thalberg award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences during the weekend. The lifetime achievement award is difficult to come by, and Kennedy is the very first woman to receive the Irving. G. Thalberg award from the Academy.
"I am very proud to be the first woman to accept this award. But I am also not the first to deserve it and I am 100 percent sure I am not the last," Kennedy said in her speech during the Academy's gala dinner back on Sunday. The Lucasfilm producer's words stirred up thunderous applause during the event attended by studio executives, actors, and directors.
In her speech, Kennedy touched on the steps that Hollywood has been taking for diversity and representation in media, saying that she hoped the industry might give women better roles both behind and in front of the camera.
"It is my hope that with the inclusion of these powerful new voices, we might just bring the world back to its senses and maybe, just maybe, shatter a few glass ceilings along the way," Kennedy told the audience.
Becoming the president of Lucasfilm during Disney's acquisition of the studio, Kennedy helped revive the Star Wars franchise by producing multi-billion dollar entries like Star Wars: the Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. While some of the new films have been met with many complaints from a vocal part of the Star Wars fanbase, Lucasfilm has still been enjoying overwhelming success.
The studio's next film, Star Wars: Episode IX, premieres December 20, 2019.
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