Mel Brooks To Receive Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s Career Achievement Award

“…Brooks is a prolific writer, director, producer and actor with a career spanning more than seven decades, whose iconic films include The Producers (1967), The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987) and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993).

Brooks began his career as a comic and writer on Sid Caesar’s variety series Your Show of Shows. Later, with Carl Reiner, he created the comic character The 2000 Year Old Man, penning the hit comedy series Get Smart! with Buck Henry.

Brooks achieved the coveted EGOT designation with Tony Award wins for The Producers back in 2001, having previously won an Emmy, a Grammy and an Oscar. He also received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009 and got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010…”