Los Angeles ( CNN ) -- Oscar-winning producer Richard D. Zanuck , whose films include `` Driving Miss Daisy , '' `` Jaws , '' and Tim Burton 's `` Alice in Wonderland , '' died Friday at age 77 of a heart attack in Los Angeles , his publicists said . In 1991 , Zanuck was awarded the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences ' Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award , also given to his longtime associate David Brown . Given only 36 times in Oscars history , the award recognized Zanuck as `` a creative producer whose body of work reflects a consistently high quality of motion picture production , '' according to his representatives . The summer of `` Jaws '' Zanuck is the only second-generation recipient of the award , which also was given to his father , Darryl F. Zanuck . Earlier , Zanuck and his wife , Lili Fini Zanuck , won an Oscar as producers of `` Driving Miss Daisy , '' which was named Best Picture of 1989 , his representatives said . The couple ran their own production firm , the Zanuck Company , formed in 1988 , the representatives said . Zanuck was born December 13 , 1934 , to Darryl F. Zanuck and actress Virginia Fox , said publicists Jeff Sanderson and Dan Barry . After graduating from Stanford University and serving in the Army as a lieutenant , he joined his father as a story and production assistant on two 20th Century Fox films , `` Island in the Sun '' and `` The Sun Also Rises . '' He became a full-fledged producer at age 24 with the feature film `` Compulsion , '' which garnered the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for the ensemble work of stars Orson Welles , Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman , the representatives said . At age 28 , Zanuck rose to president in charge of production of 20th Century Fox and was then the youngest corporate head in Hollywood , his publicists said . In his eight years at that job , the studio secured 159 Oscar nominations , including for `` The Sound of Music , '' `` Patton '' and `` The French Connection , '' which all won Best Picture . Confessions of an Oscars geek . Zanuck became senior executive vice president at Warner Bros. , where he and soon-to-be partner Brown oversaw `` The Exorcist '' and `` Blazing Saddles . '' The two men formed the Zanuck/Brown Co. in 1971 and produced `` Jaws , '' a triple-Oscar winner and Best Picture nominee , as well as `` Jaws II , '' `` The Sugarland Express , '' `` The Sting , '' `` The Verdict , '' `` Cocoon '' and its sequel `` Cocoon : The Return . '' In 1999 , the Zanuck Company joined Clint Eastwood and made `` True Crime , '' based on Andrew Klavan 's best-selling novel and a film in which Eastwood also starred and directed , the publicists said . In March 2000 , Zanuck and wife produced the 72nd annual Oscar presentation itself -- garnering nine Emmy nominations and the highest network ratings of the previous six years , the representatives said . In 2001 , Zanuck and his son Dean produced DreamWorks ' `` Road to Perdition . '' Zanuck 's most recent production was `` Dark Shadows , '' released by Warner Bros. in May -- marking his sixth collaboration with director Tim Burton , the publicists said . That old Tim Burton magic . Zanuck is survived by his wife , sons Harrison and Dean , and nine grandchildren .
Richard D. Zanuck dies of a heart attack Friday , his friends say . He and his wife won an Oscar for producing ` ` Driving Miss Daisy '' He also won the Academy 's Irving Howe Stone Memorial Award , as did his father .