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He has worked with virtually every artist in the entertainment industry and is considered one of the most successful and admired creative artist/executives in the world. Mr. Jones has won 26 Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy's Trustees Award and the Grammy Living Legend Award. He is an Emmy winner and seven-time Oscar nominee, and was recently honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with their Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He is the recipient of the Republic of France's world renowned Legion d'Honneur, the Republic of Italy's Rudolph Valentino Award, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music's coveted Polar Music Prize. Concurrent with one of the most successful and celebrated careers in the history of contemporary music, Mr. Jones broke into feature filmmaking as co-producer of the 1985 motion picture, The Color Purple, nominated for 11 Academy Awards. He has composed 33 major motion picture scores, earned worldwide acclaim as producer of the historic "We are the World" recording (the best-selling single of all time) and produced the best-selling album in the history of the recording industry, Michael Jackson's Thriller. Mr. Jones introduced Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey to the movie world and launched the careers of countless other stars. In 1993, Mr. Jones and David Salzman merged their companies to form QDE, Quincy Jones*David Salzman Entertainment, a co-venture with Time Warner, Inc. The new company, which Mr. Jones serves as co-CEO and chairman, has a broad-ranging, multi-media agenda to encompass programming for current and future technologies, including theatrical motion pictures and network, cable and syndicated television. QDE will also be active in magazine publishing, live entertainment, direct response marketing, and cross-media projects for home entertainment andeducational applications. |