2008 Jay D. Roth
2007 Carl Reiner
2004 Larry Auerbach
2003 John Rich
2002 Delbert Mann
2001 Jack Valenti
1996 Chuck Jones
1995 Sheldon Leonard
1993 Arthur Hiller
1992 Charles Champlin
1991 Gilbert Cates
1990 Barry Diller, Sidney Jay Sheinberg, Elliot Silverstein
1989 Sidney Lumet
1988 Michael H. Franklin
1985 Tom Donovan
1983 Elia Kazan,Robert E. Wise
1981 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1978 David Butler
1977 H.C. Potter
1975 Lew Wasserman
1974 Charles Chaplin
1973 David Lean
1968 Darryl F. Zanuck
1965 Jack L. Warner
1964 Joseph C. Youngerman
1962 Hobe Morrison
1961 Y. Frank Freeman
1959 George Sidney
1957 Donald Crisp
1955 Walt Disney
1952 Louis B. Mayer
1951 J.P. McGowan
1949 Rex Ingram
1948 Tod Browning
1945 Maurice Tourneur
1941 Frank Capra
1940 Marshall Neilan
1939 Mabel Walker Willebrandt
1938 D.W. Griffith
