 | 2007 | No award given for 2007.
| 2006 | Sherry Lansing
| 2005 | No award given for 2005.
| 2004 | Roger Mayer
| 2003 | No award given for 2003.
| 2002 | No award given for 2002.
| 2001 | Arthur Hiller
| 2000 | No award given for 2000.
| 1999 | No award given for 1999.
| 1998 | No award given for 1998.
| 1997 | No award given for 1997.
| 1996 | No award given for 1996.
| 1995 | No award given for 1995.
| 1994 | Quincy Jones
| 1993 | Paul Newman
| 1992 | Audrey Hepburn
| | Elizabeth Taylor
| 1991 | No award given for 1991.
| 1990 | No award given for 1990.
| 1989 | Howard W. Koch
| 1987 | No award given for 1987.
| 1986 | No award given for 1986.
| 1985 | Charles Rogers
| 1984 | David L. Wolper
| 1983 | M. J. Frankovich
| 1982 | Walter Mirisch
| 1981 | Danny Kaye
| 1980 | No award given for 1980.
| 1979 | Robert Benjamin
| 1978 | Leo Jaffe
| 1977 | Charlton Heston
| 1976 | No award given for 1976.
| 1975 | Jules C. Stein
| 1974 | Arthur B. Krim
| 1973 | Lew Wasserman
| 1972 | Rosalind Russell
| 1971 | No award given for 1971.
| 1970 | Frank Sinatra
| 1969 | George Jessel
| 1968 | Martha Raye
| 1967 | Gregory Peck
| 1966 | George Bagnall
| 1965 | Edmond L. DePatie
| 1964 | No award given for 1964.
| 1963 | No award given for 1963.
| 1962 | Steve Broidy
| 1961 | George Seaton
| 1960 | Sol Lesser
| 1959 | Bob Hope
| 1958 | No award given for 1958.
| 1957 | Samuel Goldwyn
| 1956 | Y. Frank Freeman
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