Kathleen Kennedy

Got her first producing job on the low-budget Steven Spielberg blockbuster E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and, to this day, frequently works as a producer on many of his films, including Schindler's List (1993), Jurassic Park (1993) and Munich (2005).
Named co-chairman, with George Lucas, of "Lucasfilm".
Graduated from Shasta High School in Redding, California.
Produced eight films nominated for Best Picture Oscars: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), The Color Purple (1985), The Sixth Sense (1999), Seabiscuit (2003), Munich (2005), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), War Horse (2011) and Lincoln (2012), and was executive producer on Best Picture winner, Schindler's List (1993). However, she has never won an Academy Award.
(November 18, 2018) She and her husband Frank Marshall were awarded with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. She is the first and currently only woman to receive the award.

Believe and set your sights on the fact that you can do it. It's certainly a goal any woman can have, just like any man.
But what I always find interesting is when you take the areas of writing, producing and directing. I don't think there's a great deal of discrimination -- although I'm completely perplexed and confused as to why there aren't more women. For instance, if we're looking for new, young directors, which is something we do all the time, we certainly never go look at films because they're directed by a man or a woman. We look at films because they are winning awards, they're good, and it has nothing to do with gender. And women certainly have equal opportunity to get into a university like UCLA or USC, to get into the film department, to take the same courses to allow them to make films, to deal with a whole gamut of subject matter, and yet I don't know what happens. There's something that happens in the process of getting there that seems to turn many women away.
[a John Williams film score] without it, it's a drastically different experience.