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In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a yearly recipient whose talent has fundamentally advanced the film art; whose accomplishments have been acknowledged by scholars, critics, professional peers and the general public; and whose work has stood the test of time.
Charlton Heston
James Stewart
Richard Widmark
Jack Lemmon
Henry Fonda
Bette Davis
Steven Spielberg
Audrey Hepburn
Gregory Peck
Cicely Tyson
Cary Grant
John Wayne
Lillian Gish
Fred Astaire
Gene Kelly
Fred MacMurray
Tony Curtis
Carol Burnett
Jane Fonda
Denzel Washington
Peter Falk
Lee Grant
Robert Wagner
Natalie Wood
Billy Wilder
William Wyler
Morgan Freeman
Jane Wyman
Mary Martin
Jane Alexander
Danny Kaye
Leslie Uggams
Bridget Fonda
Jeanne Moreau
James Earl Jones
Dana Andrews
Robert Mitchum
Rod Steiger
Richard Nixon
Harry Belafonte
John Ford
Billy Dee Williams
Maureen O'Hara
Dorothy McGuire
Sidney Poitier
Danny Glover
Lloyd Nolan
Rosalind Russell
Jennifer Jones
Richard Burton
Louis Gossett Jr.
Lily Tomlin
Bill Cosby
Lee Marvin
Peter Fonda
Marsha Mason
Roddy McDowall
Kirk Douglas
Clint Eastwood
Lucille Ball
James Garner
Barbara Stanwyck
Ron Howard
Charles Bronson
David Niven
Mikhail Baryshnikov
James Cagney
Cyd Charisse
Barrie Chase
Bob Fosse
Hermes Pan
Eleanor Powell
John Williams
Orson Welles
Ingrid Bergman
Peter Bogdanovich
Joseph Cotten
Frank Sinatra
Edgar Bergen
Janet Leigh
Dennis Weaver
Colleen Moore
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Eva Marie Saint
John Houseman
John Huston
Richard Thomas
Sally Field
Gene Hackman
Teri Garr
Whoopi Goldberg
Walter Matthau
I. A. L. Diamond
Jessica Lange
Don Ameche
Charles Durning
Ginger Rogers
Frank Capra
Olivia de Havilland
Mia Farrow
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Paul Henreid
Celeste Holm
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Liza Minnelli
David Lean
John Mills
Anjelica Huston
James Fox
Peter O'Toole
Omar Sharif
Eddie Albert
Greer Garson
Myrna Loy
Merle Oberon
Walter Pidgeon
Harold Russell
Barbra Streisand
Cynthia Erivo
Steve Carell
Jane Seymour
Hector Elizondo
Bo Derek
Gwen Stefani
Jennifer Hudson
Beyoncé
Mahershala Ali
Jodie Foster
Michael B. Jordan
Spike Lee
Julia Roberts
Ed Begley Jr.
Chadwick Boseman
Antoine Fuqua
Jamie Foxx
Issa Rae
Julie Andrews
Nicole Kidman
Meryl Streep
Zoe Saldaña
Naomi Watts
David E. Kelley
Keith Urban
Aaron Sorkin
Reese Witherspoon
Lulu Wang
Bob Gazzale
Hugh Jackman
Jane Campion
Jimmy Fallon
Cate Blanchett
George Miller
Baz Luhrmann
Russell Crowe
Status:
Returning Series
Original Language:
English
Type:
Scripted
Networks: