By Cassidy Lee · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, November 2012
In early November 2012, The Hollywood Reporter staged two cultural-celebration events in the same week that captured opposite ends of the industry’s generational range. The Next Gen 2012 list — Hollywood’s fastest-rising executives and creatives under 35 — was the forward-looking event; a parallel tribute to Norman Lloyd, the Alfred Hitchcock Presents veteran then 98 years old, was the legacy-looking event.
Then
Norman Lloyd had been one of the longest-living working figures in American screen entertainment by November 2012. His career stretched back to the 1930s — Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre, Hitchcock’s Saboteur (1942) and Spellbound (1945), the Alfred Hitchcock Presents television series where he had been executive producer in the late 1950s and 1960s. By the 2012 tribute moment, he had been at this work for nearly 80 years.
The Next Gen 2012 list was characteristic of the Janice Min-era HR’s broader editorial register. The under-35 industry-talent franchise had become one of the trade’s signature recurring features.
The bracketing of the two events — within the same week, in the same neighborhood, with the same publication anchoring both — was structurally a Janice Min editorial cleverness.
Now
Norman Lloyd died in May 2021 at 106 — making him one of the longest-living American film-and-television performers in documented history. His 80-plus-year working life has continued to be cited as one of the most remarkable career durations in modern entertainment.
The Hollywood Reporter Next Gen franchise has continued operating across the post-2012 years. Multiple subsequent Next Gen lists have produced cohorts of industry executives and creatives who have themselves gone on to substantial subsequent careers.
Janice Min left The Hollywood Reporter in 2017 to launch Ankler Media.
The 2012 piece reads now as a documented snapshot of Min-era HR at peak editorial confidence.
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