Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award

The Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award is an award presented by the Screen Actors Guild's National Honors and Tributes Committee for "outstanding achievement in fostering the finest ideals of the acting profession." The award predates the 1st Screen Actors Guild Awards by over thirty years. The first recipient of the award was performer and comedian Eddie Cantor, awarded to him in 1962.^[1] Since 1962, the award has been presented every year except for 1963 and 1981. There has been two occasions where two individuals received the award the same year: the first in 1985, when it was presented to actor Paul Newman and actress Joanne Woodward,^[2] and again in 2000, when it was presented to civil rights activists Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.^[3] As of 2018, 54 individuals have received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award: 46 men and 19 women.

Award recipients

Year	Image	Recipient(s)	Nationality	Ref.
1962		Eddie Cantor	USA	[1]
1963	Not awarded
1964		Stan Laurel	UK	[4]
1965		Bob Hope	USA	[5]
1966		Barbara Stanwyck	USA	[6]
1967	–	William Gargan	USA	[7]
1968		James Stewart	USA	[8]
1969		Edward G. Robinson	Romania	[9]
1970		Gregory Peck	USA	[10]
1971		Charlton Heston	USA	[11]
1972		Frank Sinatra	USA	[12]
1973		Martha Raye	USA	[13]
1974		Walter Pidgeon	Canada	[14]
1975		Rosalind Russell	USA	[15]
1976		Pearl Bailey	USA	[16]
1977		James Cagney	USA	[17]
1978		Edgar Bergen	USA	[18]
1979		Katharine Hepburn	USA	[19]
1980	–	Leon Ames	USA	[20]
1981	Not awarded
1982		Danny Kaye	USA	[21]
1983		Ralph Bellamy	USA	[22]
1984	–	Iggie Wolfington	USA	[23]
1985		Paul Newman	USA	[2]
		Joanne Woodward	USA
1986		Nanette Fabray	USA	[24]
1987		Red Skelton	USA	[25]
1988		Gene Kelly	USA	[26]
1989		Jack Lemmon	USA	[27]
1990		Brock Peters	USA	[28]
1991		Burt Lancaster	USA	[29]
1992		Audrey Hepburn	UK	[30]
1993		Ricardo Montalbán	Mexico	[31]
1994		George Burns	USA	[32]
1995		Robert Redford	USA	[33]
1996		Angela Lansbury	UK  USA  Ireland	[34]
1997		Elizabeth Taylor	UK  USA	[35]
1998		Kirk Douglas	USA	[36]
1999		Sidney Poitier	Bahamas  USA	[37]
2000		Ossie Davis	USA	[3]
		Ruby Dee	USA
2001		Ed Asner	USA	[38]
2002		Clint Eastwood	USA	[39]
2003		Karl Malden	USA	[40]
2004		James Garner	USA	[41]
2005		Shirley Temple	USA	[42]
2006		Julie Andrews	UK	[43]
2007		Charles Durning	USA	[44]
2008		James Earl Jones	USA	[45]
2009		Betty White	USA	[46]
2010		Ernest Borgnine	USA	[47]
2011		Mary Tyler Moore	USA	[48]
2012		Dick Van Dyke	USA	[49]
2013		Rita Moreno	Puerto Rico	[50]
2014		Debbie Reynolds	USA	[51]
2015		Carol Burnett	USA	[52]
2016		Lily Tomlin	USA	[53]
2017		Morgan Freeman	USA	[54]
2018		Alan Alda	USA	[55]

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