DreamWorks ceo earns industry award

LOS ANGELES and AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands Jeffrey Katzenberg, ceo of DreamWorks Animation SKGIBC will receive the IBC International Honor for Excellence 2008 award. The award will be presented during this year’s event which takes place in Amsterdam in September.

“I am thrilled to be among the distinguished list of recipients to have received an International Honor for Excellence,” Katzenberg said. “At DreamWorks Animation we aim to create and deliver quality and innovative entertainment for family audiences across the globe, and I am very grateful to IBC for acknowledging our efforts in this area. As we enter the year of 3D, I have never experienced a more dynamic and exciting time within the film industry than right now.”

Prior to co-founding DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen in October 1994, Katzenberg served as chairman of The Walt Disney Studios.