February 6, 1997
DGA President Gene Reynolds and Awards Committee Chairman Howard Storm today announced Max A. Schindler as the winner of the Lifetime Career Achievement Award in News Director Category for 1996.
Schindler has directed news for 40 years. From 1965 to 1985 he directed NBC's Meet the Press winning 2 Peabody Awards and 1 Emmy. He also received an Emmy in 1971 for his direction of the NBC News Special The Supreme Court and the Pentagon Papers.
Other highlights in Schindler’s career include directing the coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis; Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space flights; and Vietnam War demonstrations. He also served as pool director for the White House wedding of Tricia Nixon Cox, the resignation of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, the Watergate hearings, Nixon's departure from the White House, ceremonies for the returned hostages from Iran as well as the Middle East peace treaty ceremonies with President Clinton, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin.
The award will be presented to Schindler at the 49th Annual DGA Awards banquet at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles and at the Sheraton in New York.