| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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