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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 • Mira Sorvino • Ariana DeBose • Marlee Matlin • Marcia Gay Harden • Chloé Zhao • Allison Janney • Sam Rockwell • Brendan Fraser • Barbara Kopple • Jamie Lee Curtis • Jon Batiste • Linda Hunt • F. Murray Abraham • Jordan Peele • Common • Olivia Colman • Frances McDormand • Cuba Gooding, Jr. • Jessica Chastain • Michelle Yeoh • Billie Eilish • Guillermo del Toro • Timothy Hutton • Joel Grey • Sissy Spacek • Daniel Kaluuya • Geena Davis • Laura Dern • Louise Fletcher • Paul Williams • Rami Malek • Cillian Murphy • Martin Landau • 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 • Robert Redford • Victor Fleming • 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 • Grace Kelly • Oprah Winfrey • Jamie Foxx • Charlton Heston • Bette Davis • Nicole Kidman • Kevin Spacey • Eminem • Fredric March • Richard Dreyfuss • Paul Muni • Elizabeth Taylor • Viola Davis • Audrey Hepburn • Jeff Bridges • Sandra Bullock • Henry Fonda • Gregory Peck • David Lean • 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 • Colin Firth • John Osborne • Mary Pickford • Norma Shearer • Susan Sarandon • Jim Broadbent • Andrew Lloyd Webber • Stephen Sondheim • Morgan Freeman • Ellen Burstyn • James Cameron • Will Smith • Stevie Wonder • Judi Dench • Jack Lemmon • Ron Howard • Marvin Hamlisch • Aaron Sorkin • Roberto Benigni

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