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Description

The Academy's Honorary Award is given to honor "extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding service to the Academy." It is given at the discretion of the Board of Governors and is not necessarily given every year, although the last year it was not given was 1987.

The Honorary Award may take the form of an Oscar statuette, and if it does, it is presented on the telecast of the presentations. This is the Honorary Award most familiar to the public. It is sometimes given to honor a filmmaker for whom there is no annual Academy Award category: choreographer Michael Kidd in 1996, for instance, or animator Chuck Jones in 1995. It can be given to an organization, such as the National Film Board of Canada in 1988, or even a company, such as Eastman Kodak which received it that same year.


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Movie Award

Name Year Reasons
Harry M. Warner 1938 Historical short subjects
Walt Disney 1938 Achievement with SNOW WHITE
Warner Bros. 1927/28 Producing THE JAZZ SINGER
Charlie Chaplin 1927/28 acting, writing, directing, and producing THE CIRCUS
Walt Disney 1931/32 The creation of Mickey Mouse
Shirley Temple 1934
D.W. Griffith 1935
MARCH OF TIME 1936 Revolution of the newsreel and contributions to motion pictures
W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson 1936 The color cinematography on THE GARDEN OF ALLAH
Mack Sennett 1937
Edgar Bergen 1937 Creation of Charlie McCarthy
The Museum of Modern Art Film Library 1937
W. Howard Greene 1937 Color photography in A STAR IS BORN
Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney 1938 Their youthful success
Oliver Marsh and Allen Davey 1938 color cinematography of SWEETHEARTS
J. Arthur Ball 1938 Color motion picture photography innovations
Douglas Fairbanks 1939
Motion Picture Relief Fund 1939
Judy Garland 1939 Juvenile performance in the WIZARD OF OZ
William Cameron Menzies 1939 Color achievement in GONE WITH THE WIND
Technicolor Company 1939 Successfully bringing three-color feature production to the screen
Bob Hope 1940
Colonel Nathan Levinson 1940 Contributions to Army training films
Rey Scott 1941 Achievement of producing KUKAN, a film record of China's struggles
The British Ministry of Information 1941 The documentary TARGET FOR TONIGHT
Leopold Stokowski 1941 Musical achievement in Disney's FANTASIA
Walt Disney, sound technicians, and the RCA Manufacturing Company 1941 Advancements in sound for the making of FANTASIA
Charles Boyer 1942 The French Research Foundation
Noel Coward 1942 IN WHICH WE SERVE
MGM Studio 1942 The Andy Hardy film series
George Pal 1943
Margaret O'Brien 1944 Outstanding child actress of 1944
Bob Hope 1944 His many services to the Academy
Walter Wanger 1945 Six years service as President of the Academy
Peggy Ann Garner 1945 Outstanding child actress of 1945
THE HOUSE I LIVE IN 1945 a tolerance short subject
Republic Studio, Daniel J. Bloomberg and Republic Sound Department 1945 Building of a new state of the art musical scoring auditorium
Laurence Olivier 1946 Acting in, producing, and directing HENRY V
Harold Russell 1946 THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
Ernst Lubitch 1946
Claude Jarman, Jr. 1946 Outstanding child actor of 1946
James Baskett 1947 His role as Uncle Remus in SONG OF THE SOUTH
BILL AND COO 1947
SHOE-SHINE, Italian motion picture 1947
Colonel William N. Selig, Albert E. Smith, Thomas Armat, and George K. Spoor 1947 Group of film pioneers
MONSIEUR VINCENT from France 1948 Outstanding foreign language film of 1948
Ivan Jandl 1948 Outstanding juvenile performance of 1948
Sid Grauman 1948
Adolph Zukor 1948
Walter Wanger 1948 Production of JOAN OF ARC
THE BICYCLE THEIF from Italy 1949 Outstanding foreign language film of 1949
Bobby Driscoll 1949 Outstanding juvenile actor of 1949
Fred Astaire 1949
Cecil B. DeMille 1949
Jean Hersholt 1949
George Murphy 1950 Interpreting film industry to country at large
Louis B. Mayer 1950
THE WALLS OF MALAPAGA from France/Italy 1950 Outstanding foreign language film of 1950
Gene Kelly 1951
RASHOMON from Japan 1951 Outstanding foreign language film of 1951
George Alfred Mitchell 1952 His camera and works in cinematography
Joseph M. Schenck 1952
Merian C. Cooper 1952
Harold Lloyd 1952
Bob Hope 1952
FORBIDDEN GAMES from France 1952 Outstanding foreign language film of 1952
Pete Smith 1953
20th Century Fox Film Corporation 1953 Revolutionary new process CinemaScope
Joseph I. Breen 1953 Management of the Motion Picture Code
Bell and Howell Company 1953
Bausch & Lomb Optical Company 1954
Kemp R. Niver 1954 Renovare Process
Greta Garbo 1954
Danny Kaye 1954
Jon Whiteley 1954 Outstanding juvenile performance
Vincent Winter 1954 Outstanding performance in THE LITTLE KIDNAPPERS
GATE OF HELL from Japan 1954 Best Foreign Language Film for 1954
SAMURAI 1955 Best Foreign Language Film from 1955
Eddie Cantor 1956
Charles Brackett 1957
B.B. Kahane 1957
Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson 1957
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers 1957
Maurice Chevalier 1958
Lee De Forest 1959 Pioneering inventions in bringing sound to film
Buster Keaton 1959
Gary Cooper 1960
Stan Laurel 1960
Hayley Mills 1960 POLLYANNA, outstanding juvenile performance of 1960
William L. Hendricks 1961 Marine Corps film A FORCE IN READINESS
Fred L. Metzler 1961
Jerome Robbins 1961
William Tuttle 1964 Outstanding makeup achievement for 7 FACES OF DR. LAO
Bob Hope 1965
Y. Frank Freeman 1966
Yakima Canutt 1966 Outstanding achievements as a stunt man and developing safety devices for stunt men
Arthur Freed 1967
John Chambers 1968 Outstanding makeup achievement for PLANET OF THE APES
Onna White 1968 Outstanding choreography for OLIVER!
Cary Grant 1969
Lilian Gish 1970
Orson Welles 1970
Charlie Chaplin 1971
Charles Boren 1972 leader of labor relations in industry
Edward G. Robinson 1972
Henri Langlois 1973
Groucho Marx 1973
Howard Hawks 1974
Jean Renoir 1974
Mary Pickford 1975
Margaret Booth 1977
Gordon E. Sawyer and Sidney P. Solow 1977
Walter Lantz 1978
The Museum of Modern Art, Department of Film 1978
Laurence Olivier 1978
King Vidor 1978
Linwood G. Dunn, Loren L. Ryder, and Waldon O. Watson 1978
Alec Guinness 1979
Hal Elias 1979
John O. Aalberg, Charles G. Clarke and John G. Frayne 1979
Henry Fonda 1980
Fred Hynes 1980
Barbara Stanwyck 1981
Mickey Rooney 1982
Hal Roach 1983
James Stewart 1984
National Endowment for the Arts 1984
Paul Newman 1985
Alex North 1985
John H. Whitney, Sr. 1985
Ralph Bellamy 1986
E.M. "Al" Lewis 1986
National Film Board of Canada 1988
Eastman Kodak Company 1988
Akira Kurosawa 1989
Sophia Loren 1990
Myrna Loy 1990
Roderick T. Ryan, Don Trumbull, and Geoffrey H. Williamson 1990
Satyajit Ray 1991
YCM Laboratories 1991
Richard J. Stumpf and Joseph Westheimer 1991
Federico Fellini 1992
Petro Vlahos 1992
Deborah Kerr 1993
Michelangelo Antonioni 1994
John A. Bonner 1994
Kirk Douglas 1995
Chuck Jones 1995
Michael Kidd 1996
Stanley Donen 1997
Elia Kazan 1998
Andrzej Wajda 1999
Ernest Lehman 2000
Jack Cardiff 2000
Sidney Poitier 2001
Robert Redford 2001
Peter O'Toole 2002


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1. http://www.oscar.org/academyawards/awards/honorary01.html - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences



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