Robin Saban, founder and president of the International Student Film Festival Hollywood is pleased to announce A.C. Lyles is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award to be presented at the Fifth annual International Student Film Festival Hollywood Awards (ISFFH) Ceremony on Sunday, Nov. 18, at Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn in the NoHo Arts District.

Lyles is a living legend, particularly at Paramount Studios, living what he loves to do. Lyles knew by the time he was 9 years old that he wanted to be a Hollywood producer when he started working at the Florida Theater, part of the Paramount-Publix chain in Jacksonville, Fla.

At the age of 18, Lyles made it to Hollywood and began working as an office boy for Paramount's founder, Adolf Zukor. Today, at the age of 89, Lyles has worked at Paramount longer than anyone, still going to the office regularly with no intention of stopping.

Lyles quickly worked his way into the publicity department, working on more than70 features over the next 12 years. In 1956, Lyles formed his own production unit at Paramount and during the 1960s produced scores of westerns that became a staple for Paramount, starring the likes of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood.

In 1983, his friend Ronald Reagan commissioned Lyles to the President's Advisory Council. During the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations, he also functioned as a Hollywood liaison, getting celebrities to entertain at the White House and other presidential functions.

In honor of his long association and his outstanding contribution to the motion picture industry, Lyles received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1988 in front of the El Capitan Theater.

At the same time, Paramount named a building on the lot after him.

Over his lifetime, Lyles has received a plethora of awards, it is truly an honor for the ISFFH to present him one more. For a man who only wanted to make movies, Lyles is enjoying an amazing career!

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