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 2021, 59 people have received the award, of whom 39 are men and 20 women. Helen Mirren was announced as the recipient for the 2021 award.^[4]

Award recipients[]

Year	Image	Recipient(s)	Presenter	Nationality	Ref.
1962		Eddie Cantor	N/A	USA	[1]
1963	Not awarded
1964		Stan Laurel	N/A	UK	[5]
1965		Bob Hope	Charlton Heston	USA	[6]
1966		Barbara Stanwyck	Ronald Reagan	USA	[7]
1967		William Gargan	N/A	USA	[8]
1968		James Stewart	Henry Fonda	USA	[9]
1969		Edward G. Robinson	N/A	Romania	[10]
1970		Gregory Peck	Charlton Heston	USA	[11]
1971		Charlton Heston	N/A	USA	[12]
1972		Frank Sinatra	N/A	USA	[13]
1973		Martha Raye	N/A	USA	[14]
1974		Walter Pidgeon	N/A	Canada	[15]
1975		Rosalind Russell	N/A	USA	[16]
1976		Pearl Bailey	N/A	USA	[17]
1977		James Cagney	N/A	USA	[18]
1978		Edgar Bergen	N/A	USA	[19]
1979		Katharine Hepburn	N/A	USA	[20]
1980		Leon Ames	N/A	USA	[21]
1981	Not awarded
1982		Danny Kaye	N/A	USA	[22]
1983		Ralph Bellamy	N/A	USA	[23]
1984		Iggie Wolfington	N/A	USA	[24]
1985		Paul Newman	N/A	USA	[2]
		Joanne Woodward	N/A	USA
1986		Nanette Fabray	N/A	USA	[25]
1987		Red Skelton	N/A	USA	[26]
1988		Gene Kelly	N/A	USA	[27]
1989		Jack Lemmon	N/A	USA	[28]
1990		Brock Peters	N/A	USA	[29]
1991		Burt Lancaster	N/A	USA	[30]
1992		Audrey Hepburn	N/A	UK	[31]
1993		Ricardo Montalbán	Judson Scott	Mexico	[32]
1994		George Burns	Ann-Margret	USA	[33]
1995		Robert Redford	Tom Skerritt	USA	[34]
1996		Angela Lansbury	Glenn Close	UK  USA  Ireland	[35]
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	[36]
1998		Kirk Douglas	Michael Douglas	USA	[37]
1999		Sidney Poitier	Denzel Washington	Bahamas  USA	[38]
2000		Ossie Davis	Whoopi Goldberg	USA	[3]
		Ruby Dee	Whoopi Goldberg	USA
2001		Ed Asner	Tom Selleck	USA	[39]
2002		Clint Eastwood	Ray Romano and Morgan Freeman	USA	[40]
2003		Karl Malden	Michael Douglas	USA	[41]
2004		James Garner	Mel Gibson and Julie Andrews	USA	[42]
2005		Shirley Temple	Jamie Lee Curtis	USA	[43]
2006		Julie Andrews	Anne Hathaway	UK	[44]
2007		Charles Durning	Burt Reynolds	USA	[45]
2008		James Earl Jones	Forest Whitaker	USA	[46]
2009		Betty White	Sandra Bullock	USA	[47]
2010		Ernest Borgnine	Morgan Freeman	USA	[48]
2011		Mary Tyler Moore	Dick Van Dyke	USA	[49]
2012		Dick Van Dyke	Alec Baldwin	USA	[50]
2013		Rita Moreno	Morgan Freeman	Puerto Rico	[51]
2014		Debbie Reynolds	Carrie Fisher	USA	[52]
2015		Carol Burnett	Tina Fey and Amy Poehler	USA	[53]
2016		Lily Tomlin	Dolly Parton	USA	[54]
2017		Morgan Freeman	Rita Moreno	USA	[55]
2018		Alan Alda	Tom Hanks	USA	[56]
2019		Robert De Niro	Leonardo DiCaprio	USA	[57]
2020	Not awarded (due to the COVID-19 pandemic)				[58]
2021		Helen Mirren	TBD	UK	[59]

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