Awards & Winners

George Kirke Spoor

Date of Birth 18-December-1871
Place of Birth Highland Park
(Lake County, Illinois, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as George Spoor
George Kirke Spoor was an early film pioneer who, with Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson, founded Essanay Studios in Chicago in 1907. He was a founding partner of V-L-S-E, Incorporated, a film distribution firm, in 1915.

Awards by George Kirke Spoor

Check all the awards nominated and won by George Kirke Spoor.

1947


Academy Honorary Award
(members of the small group of pioneers whose belief in a new medium, and whose contributions to its development, blazed the trail along which the motion picture has progressed, in their lifetime, from obscurity to world-wide acclaim)