MUMBAI: Oscar and Emmy award winning producer, Brian Grazer is set to receive the lifetime achievement trophy at PromaxBDA’s upcoming conference as reported exclusively by the Hollywood Reporter.

Grazer will be given the award onstage during a conversation by Piers Morgan, host of CNN’s Piers Morgan Live.

“From Splash to Arrested Development, Grazer is one of Hollywood‘s most prominent television producers and filmmakers and has consistently transformed the content landscape with his innovative films and series,” said PromaxBDA president and CEO Jonathan Block-Verk.

As a writer and producer, Grazer has been nominated for four Academy awards and won the best picture for Oscar A Beautiful Mind in 2002. The movie also earned Grazer the inaugural Awareness Award from the National Mental Health Awareness Campaign.

Grazer, a longtime partner with Ron Howard in Imagine Entertainment, has also won Emmys as executive producer of 24 (best drama series), Arrested Development (best comedy) and From the Earth to the Moon (best miniseries).

Over the years, films and TV shows in which Grazer had been a part of was nominated for a total of 43 Oscars and 149 Emmys.

"I’m honored to accept the 2013 PromaxBDA Lifetime Achievement Award," Grazer said. "For the last three decades, I have been able to share my vision as a filmmaker and a producer while doing something that I truly love and for this I am grateful," he added.