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    The Golden Chair Award

    The Golden Chair is awarded to those individuals and corporations in recognition for their contribution to film/video/TV production in Minnesota. The award is handed out each year during the Minnesota Film Board's Annual Meeting, the yearly salute to the Minnesota production community and its supporters. Past Golden Chair recipients have included everyone from Target Corporation to former Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson. Below is a complete list of the recipients of the Golden Chair award.

    Golden Chair Award Recipients

    2001: ANNUAL MEETING
    Dayton's Auditorium, May 3

  • Sarah Pillsbury, producer (keynote speaker)
  • Larry Lamb, computer animator
  • BBA/Best Buy Advertising (Corporate Sponsor Award)
  • Twentieth Century Fox and JOE SOMEBODY
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    2000: ANNUAL MEETING,
    Dayton's Auditorium, June 1

  • Jeff Auerbach (keynote speaker, TriStar Television)
  • New Line Cinema (SUGAR & SPICE, DROP DEAD GORGEOUS)
  • Peter Markle, director
  • Target Corporation (Corporate Sponsor Award)
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    1999: ANNUAL MEETING,
    Dayton's Auditorium, May 24

  • Al Franken (keynote speaker)
  • Northwest Airlines (Corporate Sponsor Award)
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    1998: ANNUAL MEETING, Bravo, February 10

  • Governor Arne Carlson
  • John Sayles/Maggie Renzie (keynote speakers)
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    1995: PREMIERE OF GRUMPIER OLD MEN, State Theater

  • Ann-Margret (presented by Gov. Arne Carlson)
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    1993: ANNUAL MEETING, Walker Art Center

  • Pat Proft
  • Bruce Hendricks (keynote speaker, Disney Studios)
  • Suncoast Motion Picture Stores (Corporate Sponsor Award)
  • Bradford Richardson, volunteer of the year
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    1992: ANNUAL MEETING, Azur Ballroom, Minneapolis, March 20

  • Jordan Kerner (keynote speaker)
  • City of Duluth (Community Spotlight Award)
  • Tim Steinberg (photographer, Supporting Player Award)
  • Budget Rent A Car/Minnesota (Corporate Sponsor Award)
  • Dayton-Hudson Foundation (Corporate Sponsor Award)
  • Northwest Airlines (Corporate Sponsor Award)
  • KTCA-TV (Minnesota Limelight Award)
  • Greg Cummins (Minnesota Limelight Award)
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    1991

  • Harry Grossman, Disney Studios
  • New World Entertainment (THE LIVES OF TRUDDI CHASE)
  • Working Title Films (DROP DEAD FRED)
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    1989

  • Senator Richard Cohen
  • Warwick Davis
  • Media Ventures (THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW)
  • Paisley Park Studios
  • River Road Productions (OLD EXPLORERS)
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