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Also Known As Oscar • Academy Award of Merit
Notable Honorees Alfred Hitchcock • Steven Spielberg • Woody Allen • Orson Welles • Vincente Minnelli • John Huston • Frank Capra • Martin Scorsese • Bob Dylan • George Bernard Shaw • Michael Curtiz • William Wyler • Bruce Springsteen • Frank Sinatra • Billy Wilder • Charlie Chaplin • Francis Ford Coppola • Clint Eastwood • Mervyn LeRoy • George Stevens • Robert Altman • George Cukor • Elia Kazan • Robert Wise • Ingmar Bergman • Mike Nichols • Paul Newman • Fred Zinnemann • Walt Disney • William Wellman • Frank Borzage • Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Cecil B. DeMille • John Ford • Sydney Pollack • John Schlesinger • Leo McCarey • Sidney Poitier • George Lucas • Guillermo del Toro • Rami Malek • Paul Williams • Barbara Kopple • F. Murray Abraham • Louise Fletcher • Sam Rockwell • Chloé Zhao • Allison Janney • Daniel Kaluuya • Ariana DeBose • Cuba Gooding, Jr. • Marlee Matlin • Joel Grey • Billie Eilish • Marcia Gay Harden • Mira Sorvino • Olivia Colman • Laura Dern • Michelle Yeoh • Common • Jamie Lee Curtis • Martin Landau • Jessica Chastain • Geena Davis • Frances McDormand • Sissy Spacek • Timothy Hutton • Jordan Peele • Linda Hunt • Bob Fosse • Jean-Luc Godard • Lewis Milestone • Jack Nicholson • Mel Brooks • Preston Sturges • John Wayne • Gene Kelly • Katharine Hepburn • Humphrey Bogart • Stanley Kramer • Laurence Olivier • Fred Astaire • Robert De Niro • Jerry Lewis • Cary Grant • Clark Gable • Bob Hope • Cate Blanchett • Delbert Mann • Richard Brooks • Victor Fleming • Robert Redford • Meryl Streep • John Farrow • James Cagney • Greta Garbo • Vanessa Redgrave • Lady Gaga • Miyazaki Hayao • Oliver Stone • Matt Damon • Aaron Copland • Dustin Hoffman • James Stewart • Robert Benton • Joanne Woodward • Marlon Brando • George Roy Hill • Leonardo DiCaprio • Steven Soderbergh • Anthony Hopkins • Miloš Forman • Brad Pitt • Kate Winslet • Michael Douglas • Angelina Jolie • Arthur Hiller • Helen Mirren • George Seaton • Julianne Moore • Russell Crowe • Anjelica Huston • George Clooney • Burt Lancaster • Tom Hanks • Prince • Mark Rylance • Jerome Robbins • Kirk Douglas • Julia Roberts • Michael Caine • Ben Affleck • Spike Lee • Shirley MacLaine • Claudette Colbert • Tommy Lee Jones • Franklin J. Schaffner • Alec Guinness • Sean Connery • Robin Williams • Elton John • Spencer Tracy • Barbra Streisand • Matthew McConaughey • Jamie Foxx • Oprah Winfrey • Grace Kelly • Charlton Heston • Bette Davis • Nicole Kidman • Kevin Spacey • Eminem • Fredric March • Richard Dreyfuss • Paul Muni • Viola Davis • Elizabeth Taylor • Jeff Bridges • Audrey Hepburn • Sandra Bullock • Henry Fonda • David Lean • Gregory Peck • Philip Seymour Hoffman • Denzel Washington • Julie Andrews • Jessica Lange • Mickey Rooney • Sean Penn • Billy Bob Thornton • William Friedkin • Jennifer Lawrence • Reese Witherspoon • Maggie Smith • Joan Fontaine • Marion Cotillard • Roman Polanski • John Osborne • Colin Firth • Mary Pickford • Norma Shearer • Susan Sarandon • Jim Broadbent • Andrew Lloyd Webber • Stephen Sondheim • Morgan Freeman • Ellen Burstyn • James Cameron • Will Smith • Stevie Wonder • Jack Lemmon • Judi Dench • Ron Howard • Marvin Hamlisch • Aaron Sorkin • Roberto Benigni • Hoagy Carmichael • Liza Minnelli • Danny Kaye

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