Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award

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 award1962
Currently held byJane Fonda (2024)
Websitesagawards.org

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.

Award recipients

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 Julia Louis-Dreyfus USA [61]

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