Spent four years after college teaching English and math at public schools in the Los Angeles area Became the first female to oversee a studio's motion picture production when she was appointed president of production at 20th Century Fox in 1980
Named Hollywood's most powerful woman in 2002 by the Hollywood Reporter
Was the CEO and chair of the Motion Picture Group of Paramount Pictures from 1992 to 2005
Among the founders of the Stand Up to Cancer foundation
Awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2007
Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her work as a studio head (the first woman studio boss to receive that honor), as well as hand and footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theater
Awards
1987Oscar-Best Motion Picture of the Year:nominated