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
2005
David Brown
Nora Ephron
Fred Pierce
2004
Roger Ebert
Frank Pierson
John Warnock
