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Also Known As Oscar • Academy Award of Merit
Notable Honorees Alfred Hitchcock • Steven Spielberg • Woody Allen • Orson Welles • Martin Scorsese • Vincente Minnelli • John Huston • Frank Capra • Michael Curtiz • Bruce Springsteen • George Bernard Shaw • William Wyler • Bob Dylan • Billy Wilder • Frank Sinatra • Francis Ford Coppola • Charlie Chaplin • Clint Eastwood • Mervyn LeRoy • Robert Altman • George Stevens • George Cukor • Mike Nichols • Ingmar Bergman • Frank Borzage • Paul Newman • Fred Zinnemann • Elia Kazan • Walt Disney • Robert Wise • William Wellman • Cecil B. DeMille • Joseph L. Mankiewicz • John Schlesinger • Sydney Pollack • Paul Williams • Leo McCarey • Cate Blanchett • Mel Brooks • George Lucas • Barbara Kopple • John Ford • Lady Gaga • Bob Fosse • Jean-Luc Godard • Nicole Kidman • Ben Affleck • Preston Sturges • Lewis Milestone • Meryl Streep • Elton John • Robert De Niro • Sidney Poitier • James Goldman • Ernest Gold • Joel Coen • Martin Balsam • Red Buttons • William Peter Blatty • Ben Johnson • Patty Duke • Vanessa Redgrave • Ethan Coen • Victor McLaglen • Don Ameche • Robert Donat • Miyoshi Umeki • George Kennedy • Denzel Washington • Brad Pitt • Clark Gable • Julianne Moore • Stanley Kramer • Jamie Lee Curtis • Miyazaki Hayao • Andrew Lloyd Webber • Matt Damon • John Wayne • Helen Mirren • Steven Soderbergh • Tom Hanks • Jack Nicholson • Brendan Fraser • Kate Winslet • Kevin Spacey • George Clooney • Spike Lee • Anthony Hopkins • Delbert Mann • Gene Kelly • Allison Janney • Angelina Jolie • Leonardo DiCaprio • Viola Davis • Olivia Colman • Laurence Olivier • Mark Rylance • Jerry Lewis • Reese Witherspoon • Oprah Winfrey • Barbra Streisand • Michael Douglas • Michelle Yeoh • John Farrow • Will Smith • Oliver Stone • Robert Benton • Joanne Woodward • Richard Brooks • Eminem • Anjelica Huston • Sam Mendes • Julia Roberts • Cary Grant • Bob Hope • A.R. Rahman • Victor Fleming • Michael Caine • Jeff Bridges • Tilda Swinton • Aaron Copland • Tommy Lee Jones • Fred Astaire • Susan Sarandon • Henry Fonda • Dustin Hoffman • Katharine Hepburn • Jamie Foxx • Arthur Hiller • Humphrey Bogart • Elaine May • Russell Crowe • Colin Firth • Rami Malek • George Roy Hill • Aaron Sorkin • Jerome Robbins • Miloš Forman • Prince • Robert Redford • Emma Thompson • Billy Bob Thornton • Judi Dench • Sandra Bullock • Samuel L. Jackson • Neil Jordan • Richard Dreyfuss • Penélope Cruz • Sean Penn • James Cagney • Alan Arkin • George Seaton • Marlon Brando • Gary Oldman • Kathy Bates • Jessica Lange • Cillian Murphy • Hattie McDaniel • Matthew McConaughey • Javier Bardem • Morgan Freeman • Kenneth Branagh • Jon Batiste • Jennifer Hudson • Kevin Costner • Roman Polanski • Christopher Nolan • Joaquin Phoenix • Greta Garbo • James Stewart • Jim Broadbent • Jennifer Lawrence • Claudette Colbert • David Lean • Errol Morris • Franklin J. Schaffner • Robin Williams • Marion Cotillard • Christopher Plummer • Christian Bale • Shirley MacLaine • Ron Howard • Cher • Jessica Chastain • William Friedkin • Julie Andrews • Frances McDormand • James Earl Jones • Walter Brennan • Natalie Portman • Philip Seymour Hoffman • Stephen Sondheim • Maggie Smith • Jane Fonda • Kieran Culkin • Whoopi Goldberg • Spike Jonze • Stevie Wonder • Audrey Hepburn

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