而美國電影學會頒發的終生成就獎的歷屆電影人名單以下就是：

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 Stewart

1979 Alfred Hitchcock

1978 Henry Fonda

1977 Bette Davis

1976 William Wyler

1975 Orson Welles

1974 James Cagney

1973 John Ford