2025
Viola Davis
Walter Murch
2024
Jamie Lee Curtis
2023
Ernest R. Dickerson
Gina Prince-Bythewood
2022
Michelle Yeoh
Lawrence Herbert
2021
Lily Tomlin
Angela Bassett
2019
Lesli Linka Glatter**
Paul Schrader*
2018
Jodie Foster
Dean Tavoularis
2017
Carol Burnett
Marshall Herskovitz
Edward Zwick
2016
Rita Moreno
Quentin Tarantino
2015
Lawrence Kasdan
Angela Lansbury
2014
Robert Towne
Cicely Tyson**
2013
Jon Avnet*
Kathryn Bigelow
Anne V. Coates
2012
Mel Brooks
David Lynch*
2011
Richard H. Frank
Spike Lee
Helen Mirren
2010
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Kathleen Kennedy
2009
Clint Eastwood
2008
Caleb Deschanel*, ASC
Jean Picker Firstenberg
Norman Jewison
2007
Tom Pollock
George Stevens, Jr.
Sir Howard Stringer
2006
Jeanine Basinger
Charles W. Fries
James Earl Jones
Sydney Pollack
