Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award

The Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award is presented by the Screen Actors Guild's National Honors and Tributes Committee for "outstanding achievement in fostering the finest ideals of the acting profession." It predates the 1st Screen Actors Guild Awards by over thirty years. The award's first recipient was performer and comedian Eddie Cantor, in 1962.[1] Since then, it has been presented every year except 1963, 1981 and 2021. On two occasions, two people received the award the same year: in 1985, when it was presented to actor Paul Newman and actress Joanne Woodward,[2] and in 2000, when it was presented to civil rights activists Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.[3] The award was not given in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As of 2024, 62 people have received the award, of whom 39 are men and 23 women.

Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
Awarded for"outstanding achievement in fostering the finest ideals of the acting profession"
CountryUnited States
Presented bySAG-AFTRA
First awarded1962
Currently held byBarbra Streisand (2023)
Websitesagawards.org

Award recipients

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Year Image Recipient(s) Presenter Nationality Ref.
1962   Eddie Cantor   USA [1]
1963 Not awarded
1964   Stan Laurel   UK [4]
1965   Bob Hope Charlton Heston   USA [5]
1966   Barbara Stanwyck Ronald Reagan   USA [6]
1967   William Gargan   USA [7]
1968   James Stewart Henry Fonda   USA [8]
1969   Edward G. Robinson   Romania [9]
1970   Gregory Peck Charlton Heston   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 Judson Scott   Mexico [31]
1994   George Burns Ann-Margret   USA [32]
1995   Robert Redford Tom Skerritt   USA [33]
1996   Angela Lansbury Glenn Close   UK
  USA
  Ireland
[34]
1997   Elizabeth Taylor Gregory Peck accepted the award on Taylor's behalf as she was hospitalized and unable to attend the awards ceremony.   UK
  USA
[35]
1998   Kirk Douglas Michael Douglas   USA [36]
1999   Sidney Poitier Denzel Washington   Bahamas
  USA
[37]
2000   Ossie Davis Whoopi Goldberg   USA [3]
  Ruby Dee   USA
2001   Ed Asner Tom Selleck   USA [38]
2002   Clint Eastwood Ray Romano and Morgan Freeman   USA [39]
2003   Karl Malden Michael Douglas   USA [40]
2004   James Garner Mel Gibson and Julie Andrews   USA [41]
2005   Shirley Temple Jamie Lee Curtis   USA [42]
2006   Julie Andrews Anne Hathaway   UK [43]
2007   Charles Durning Burt Reynolds   USA [44]
2008   James Earl Jones Forest Whitaker   USA [45]
2009   Betty White Sandra Bullock   USA [46]
2010   Ernest Borgnine Morgan Freeman   USA [47]
2011   Mary Tyler Moore Dick Van Dyke   USA [48]
2012   Dick Van Dyke Alec Baldwin   USA [49]
2013   Rita Moreno Morgan Freeman   Puerto Rico [50]
2014   Debbie Reynolds Carrie Fisher   USA [51]
2015   Carol Burnett Tina Fey and Amy Poehler   USA [52]
2016   Lily Tomlin Dolly Parton   USA [53]
2017   Morgan Freeman Rita Moreno   USA [54]
2018   Alan Alda Tom Hanks   USA [55]
2019   Robert De Niro Leonardo DiCaprio   USA [56]
2020 Not awarded (due to the COVID-19 pandemic) [57]
2021   Helen Mirren Kate Winslet and Cate Blanchett   UK [58]
2022   Sally Field Andrew Garfield   USA [59]
2023   Barbra Streisand Jennifer Aniston and Bradley Cooper   USA [60]
2024   Jane Fonda TBA   USA [61]

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