Movies – American Film Institute Life Achievement Award
| Year | Recipient |
| 2025 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 2024 | Nicole Kidman |
| 2022 | Julie Andrews |
| 2019 | Denzel Washington |
| 2018 | George Clooney |
| 2017 | Diane Keaton |
| 2016 | John Williams |
| 2015 | Steve Martin |
| 2014 | Jane Fonda |
| 2013 | Mel Brooks |
| 2012 | Shirley MacLaine |
| 2011 | Morgan Freeman |
| 2010 | Mike Nichols |
| 2009 | Michael Douglas |
| 2008 | Warren Beatty |
| 2007 | Al Pacino |
| 2006 | Sir Sean Connery |
| 2005 | George Lucas |
| 2004 | Meryl Streep |
| 2003 | Robert De Niro |
| 2002 | Tom Hanks |
| 2001 | Barbra Streisand |
| 2000 | Harrison Ford |
| 1999 | Dustin Hoffman |
| 1998 | Robert Wise |
| 1997 | Martin Scorsese |
| 1996 | Clint Eastwood |
| 1995 | Steven Spielberg |
| 1994 | Jack Nicholson |
| 1993 | Elizabeth Taylor |
| 1992 | Sidney Poitier |
| 1991 | Kirk Douglas |
| 1990 | David Lean |
| 1989 | Gregory Peck |
| 1988 | Jack Lemmon |
| 1987 | Barbara Stanwyck |
| 1986 | Billy Wilder |
| 1985 | Gene Kelly |
| 1984 | Lillian Gish |
| 1983 | John Huston |
| 1982 | Frank Capra |
| 1981 | Fred Astaire |
| 1980 | James Steward |
| 1979 | Alfred Hitchock |
| 1978 | Bette Davis |
| 1977 | Henry Fonda |
| 1976 | William Wyler |
| 1975 | Orson Welles |
| 1974 | James Cagney |
| 1973 | John Ford |
