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Given for extraordinary lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the motion picture arts and sciences of any discipline, or outstanding service to the Academy.
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 1950 (23rd) | George Murphy |
| 1951 (24th) | Gene Kelly |
| 1952 (25th) | George Alfred Mitchell |
| 1952 (25th) | Joseph M. Schenck |
| 1952 (25th) | Merian C. Cooper |
| 1952 (25th) | Harold Lloyd |
| 1952 (25th) | Bob Hope |
| 1953 (26th) | Pete Smith |
| 1953 (26th) | 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation |
| 1953 (26th) | Joseph I. Breen |
| 1953 (26th) | Bell and Howell Company |
| 1954 (27th) | Bausch & Lomb Optical Company |
| 1954 (27th) | Kemp R. Niver |
| 1954 (27th) | Greta Garbo |
| 1954 (27th) | Danny Kaye |
| 1954 (27th) | Jon Whiteley and Vincent Winter |
| 1956 (29th) | Eddie Cantor |
| 1957 (30th) | Charles Brackett |
| 1957 (30th) | B.B. Kahane |
| 1957 (30th) | Gilbert M. ("Broncho Billy") Anderson |
| 1957 (30th) | The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers |
| 1958 (31st) | Maurice Chevalier |
| 1959 (32nd) | Lee De Forest |
| 1959 (32nd) | Buster Keaton |
| 1960 (33rd) | Gary Cooper |
| 1960 (33rd) | Stan Laurel |
| 1960 (33rd) | Hayley Mills |
| 1961 (34th) | Fred L. Metzler |
| 1961 (34th) | Jerome Robbins |
| 1961 (34th) | William L. Hendricks |
| 1964 (37th) | William Tuttle |
| 1965 (38th) | Bob Hope |
| 1966 (39th) | Yakima Canutt |
| 1966 (39th) | Y. Frank Freeman |
| 1967 (40th) | Arthur Freed |
| 1968 (41st) | Onna White |
| 1968 (41st) | John Chambers |
| 1969 (42nd) | Cary Grant |
| 1970 (43rd) | Lillian Gish |
| 1970 (43rd) | Orson Welles |
| 1971 (44th) | Charles Chaplin |
| 1972 (45th) | Charles S. Boren |
| 1972 (45th) | Edward G. Robinson |
| 1973 (46th) | Henri Langlois |
| 1973 (46th) | Groucho Marx |
| 1974 (47th) | Howard Hawks |
| 1974 (47th) | Jean Renoir |
| 1975 (48th) | Mary Pickford |
| 1977 (50th) | Margaret Booth |
| 1978 (51st) | Walter Lantz |
| 1978 (51st) | The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film |
| 1978 (51st) | Laurence Olivier |
| 1978 (51st) | King Vidor |
| 1979 (52nd) | Alec Guinness |
| 1979 (52nd) | Hal Elias |
| 1980 (53rd) | Henry Fonda |
| 1981 (54th) | Barbara Stanwyck |
| 1982 (55th) | Mickey Rooney |
| 1983 (56th) | Hal Roach |
| 1984 (57th) | James Stewart |
| 1984 (57th) | National Endowment for the Arts |
| 1985 (58th) | Paul Newman |
| 1985 (58th) | Alex North |
| 1986 (59th) | Ralph Bellamy |
| 1988 (61st) | National Film Board of Canada |
| 1988 (61st) | Eastman Kodak Company |
| 1989 (62nd) | Akira Kurosawa |
| 1990 (63rd) | Sophia Loren |
| 1990 (63rd) | Myrna Loy |
| 1991 (64th) | Satyajit Ray |
| 1992 (65th) | Federico Fellini |
| 1993 (66th) | Deborah Kerr |
| 1994 (67th) | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 1995 (68th) | Chuck Jones |
| 1995 (68th) | Kirk Douglas |
| 1996 (69th) | Michael Kidd |
| 1997 (70th) | Stanley Donen |
| 1998 (71st) | Elia Kazan |
| 1999 (72nd) | Andrzej Wajda |
| 2000 (73rd) | Jack Cardiff |
| 2000 (73rd) | Ernest Lehman |
| 2001 (74th) | Sidney Poitier |
| 2001 (74th) | Robert Redford |
| 2002 (75th) | Peter O'Toole |
| 2003 (76th) | Blake Edwards |
| 2004 (77th) | Sidney Lumet |
| 2005 (78th) | Robert Altman |
| 2006 (79th) | Ennio Morricone |
| 2007 (80th) | Robert Boyle |
| 2009 (82nd) | Roger Corman |
| 2009 (82nd) | Gordon Willis |
| 2009 (82nd) | Lauren Bacall |
| 2010 (83rd) | Kevin Brownlow |
| 2010 (83rd) | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 2010 (83rd) | Eli Wallach |
| 2011 (84th) | James Earl Jones |
| 2011 (84th) | Dick Smith |
| 2012 (85th) | Hal Needham |
| 2012 (85th) | D. A. Pennebaker |
| 2012 (85th) | George Stevens, Jr. |
| 2013 (86th) | Angela Lansbury |
| 2013 (86th) | Steve Martin |
| 2013 (86th) | Piero Tosi |
| 2014 (87th) | Jean-Claude Carrière |
| 2014 (87th) | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 2014 (87th) | Maureen O'Hara |
| 2015 (88th) | Spike Lee |
| 2015 (88th) | Gena Rowlands |
| 2016 (89th) | Jackie Chan |
| 2016 (89th) | Anne Coates |
| 2016 (89th) | Lynn Stalmaster |
| 2016 (89th) | Frederick Wiseman |
| 2017 (90th) | Agnès Varda |
| 2017 (90th) | Charles Burnett |
| 2017 (90th) | Donald Sutherland |
| 2017 (90th) | Owen Roizman |
| 2018 (91st) | Marvin Levy |
| 2018 (91st) | Lalo Schifrin |
| 2018 (91st) | Cicely Tyson |
| 2019 (92nd) | David Lynch |
| 2019 (92nd) | Wes Studi |
| 2019 (92nd) | Lina Wertmüller |
| 2021 (94th) | Samuel L. Jackson |
| 2021 (94th) | Elaine May |
| 2021 (94th) | Liv Ullmann |
| 2022 (95th) | Euzhan Palcy |
| 2022 (95th) | Diane Warren |
| 2022 (95th) | Peter Weir |
| 2023 (96th) | Angela Bassett |
| 2023 (96th) | Mel Brooks |
| 2023 (96th) | Carol Littleton |
Given for extraordinary lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the motion picture arts and sciences of any discipline, or outstanding service to the Academy.
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 1950 (23rd) | George Murphy |
| 1951 (24th) | Gene Kelly |
| 1952 (25th) | George Alfred Mitchell |
| 1952 (25th) | Joseph M. Schenck |
| 1952 (25th) | Merian C. Cooper |
| 1952 (25th) | Harold Lloyd |
| 1952 (25th) | Bob Hope |
| 1953 (26th) | Pete Smith |
| 1953 (26th) | 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation |
| 1953 (26th) | Joseph I. Breen |
| 1953 (26th) | Bell and Howell Company |
| 1954 (27th) | Bausch & Lomb Optical Company |
| 1954 (27th) | Kemp R. Niver |
| 1954 (27th) | Greta Garbo |
| 1954 (27th) | Danny Kaye |
| 1954 (27th) | Jon Whiteley and Vincent Winter |
| 1956 (29th) | Eddie Cantor |
| 1957 (30th) | Charles Brackett |
| 1957 (30th) | B.B. Kahane |
| 1957 (30th) | Gilbert M. ("Broncho Billy") Anderson |
| 1957 (30th) | The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers |
| 1958 (31st) | Maurice Chevalier |
| 1959 (32nd) | Lee De Forest |
| 1959 (32nd) | Buster Keaton |
| 1960 (33rd) | Gary Cooper |
| 1960 (33rd) | Stan Laurel |
| 1960 (33rd) | Hayley Mills |
| 1961 (34th) | Fred L. Metzler |
| 1961 (34th) | Jerome Robbins |
| 1961 (34th) | William L. Hendricks |
| 1964 (37th) | William Tuttle |
| 1965 (38th) | Bob Hope |
| 1966 (39th) | Yakima Canutt |
| 1966 (39th) | Y. Frank Freeman |
| 1967 (40th) | Arthur Freed |
| 1968 (41st) | Onna White |
| 1968 (41st) | John Chambers |
| 1969 (42nd) | Cary Grant |
| 1970 (43rd) | Lillian Gish |
| 1970 (43rd) | Orson Welles |
| 1971 (44th) | Charles Chaplin |
| 1972 (45th) | Charles S. Boren |
| 1972 (45th) | Edward G. Robinson |
| 1973 (46th) | Henri Langlois |
| 1973 (46th) | Groucho Marx |
| 1974 (47th) | Howard Hawks |
| 1974 (47th) | Jean Renoir |
| 1975 (48th) | Mary Pickford |
| 1977 (50th) | Margaret Booth |
| 1978 (51st) | Walter Lantz |
| 1978 (51st) | The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film |
| 1978 (51st) | Laurence Olivier |
| 1978 (51st) | King Vidor |
| 1979 (52nd) | Alec Guinness |
| 1979 (52nd) | Hal Elias |
| 1980 (53rd) | Henry Fonda |
| 1981 (54th) | Barbara Stanwyck |
| 1982 (55th) | Mickey Rooney |
| 1983 (56th) | Hal Roach |
| 1984 (57th) | James Stewart |
| 1984 (57th) | National Endowment for the Arts |
| 1985 (58th) | Paul Newman |
| 1985 (58th) | Alex North |
| 1986 (59th) | Ralph Bellamy |
| 1988 (61st) | National Film Board of Canada |
| 1988 (61st) | Eastman Kodak Company |
| 1989 (62nd) | Akira Kurosawa |
| 1990 (63rd) | Sophia Loren |
| 1990 (63rd) | Myrna Loy |
| 1991 (64th) | Satyajit Ray |
| 1992 (65th) | Federico Fellini |
| 1993 (66th) | Deborah Kerr |
| 1994 (67th) | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 1995 (68th) | Chuck Jones |
| 1995 (68th) | Kirk Douglas |
| 1996 (69th) | Michael Kidd |
| 1997 (70th) | Stanley Donen |
| 1998 (71st) | Elia Kazan |
| 1999 (72nd) | Andrzej Wajda |
| 2000 (73rd) | Jack Cardiff |
| 2000 (73rd) | Ernest Lehman |
| 2001 (74th) | Sidney Poitier |
| 2001 (74th) | Robert Redford |
| 2002 (75th) | Peter O'Toole |
| 2003 (76th) | Blake Edwards |
| 2004 (77th) | Sidney Lumet |
| 2005 (78th) | Robert Altman |
| 2006 (79th) | Ennio Morricone |
| 2007 (80th) | Robert Boyle |
| 2009 (82nd) | Roger Corman |
| 2009 (82nd) | Gordon Willis |
| 2009 (82nd) | Lauren Bacall |
| 2010 (83rd) | Kevin Brownlow |
| 2010 (83rd) | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 2010 (83rd) | Eli Wallach |
| 2011 (84th) | James Earl Jones |
| 2011 (84th) | Dick Smith |
| 2012 (85th) | Hal Needham |
| 2012 (85th) | D. A. Pennebaker |
| 2012 (85th) | George Stevens, Jr. |
| 2013 (86th) | Angela Lansbury |
| 2013 (86th) | Steve Martin |
| 2013 (86th) | Piero Tosi |
| 2014 (87th) | Jean-Claude Carrière |
| 2014 (87th) | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 2014 (87th) | Maureen O'Hara |
| 2015 (88th) | Spike Lee |
| 2015 (88th) | Gena Rowlands |
| 2016 (89th) | Jackie Chan |
| 2016 (89th) | Anne Coates |
| 2016 (89th) | Lynn Stalmaster |
| 2016 (89th) | Frederick Wiseman |
| 2017 (90th) | Agnès Varda |
| 2017 (90th) | Charles Burnett |
| 2017 (90th) | Donald Sutherland |
| 2017 (90th) | Owen Roizman |
| 2018 (91st) | Marvin Levy |
| 2018 (91st) | Lalo Schifrin |
| 2018 (91st) | Cicely Tyson |
| 2019 (92nd) | David Lynch |
| 2019 (92nd) | Wes Studi |
| 2019 (92nd) | Lina Wertmüller |
| 2021 (94th) | Samuel L. Jackson |
| 2021 (94th) | Elaine May |
| 2021 (94th) | Liv Ullmann |
| 2022 (95th) | Euzhan Palcy |
| 2022 (95th) | Diane Warren |
| 2022 (95th) | Peter Weir |
| 2023 (96th) | Angela Bassett |
| 2023 (96th) | Mel Brooks |
| 2023 (96th) | Carol Littleton |