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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 • Brendan Fraser • Jon Batiste • Ariana DeBose • Jordan Peele • Chloé Zhao • Cillian Murphy • Barbara Kopple • Paul Williams • Timothy Hutton • Marcia Gay Harden • Sam Rockwell • Zoe Saldaña • Daniel Kaluuya • Joel Grey • Rami Malek • Kieran Culkin • Common • Marlee Matlin • Sissy Spacek • Jamie Lee Curtis • Martin Landau • Billie Eilish • Linda Hunt • Mira Sorvino • Olivia Colman • F. Murray Abraham • Michelle Yeoh • Frances McDormand • Cuba Gooding, Jr. • Guillermo del Toro • Allison Janney • Louise Fletcher • Geena Davis • Jessica Chastain • Laura Dern • 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 • Helen Mirren • Arthur Hiller • George Seaton • Julianne Moore • Russell Crowe • Anjelica Huston • George Clooney • Burt Lancaster • Tom Hanks • Mark Rylance • Prince • Jerome Robbins • Kirk Douglas • Julia Roberts • Ben Affleck • Michael Caine • Spike Lee • Shirley MacLaine • Tommy Lee Jones • Claudette Colbert • Franklin J. Schaffner • Alec Guinness • Sean Connery • Robin Williams • Elton John • Spencer Tracy • Barbra Streisand • Matthew McConaughey • Grace Kelly • Jamie Foxx • Oprah Winfrey • Charlton Heston • Bette Davis • Nicole Kidman • Kevin Spacey • Eminem • Richard Dreyfuss • Fredric March • Viola Davis • Paul Muni • Elizabeth Taylor • Audrey Hepburn • Jeff Bridges • 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

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