 | 2007 | No Award given for 2007.
| 2006 | No Award given for 2006.
| 2005 | No Award given for 2005.
| 2004 | No Award given for 2004.
| 2003 | No Award given for 2003.
| 2002 | No Award given for 2002.
| 2001 | No Award given for 2001.
| 2000 | Dino De Laurentiis
| 1999 | Warren Beatty
| 1998 | Norman Jewison
| 1997 | No Award given for 1997.
| 1996 | Saul Zaentz
| 1995 | No Award given for 1995.
| 1994 | Clint Eastwood
| 1993 | No Award given for 1993.
| 1992 | No Award given for 1992.
| 1991 | George Lucas
| 1990 | Richard D. Zanuck & David Brown
| 1989 | No Award given for 1989.
| 1988 | No Award given for 1988.
| 1987 | Billy Wilder
| 1986 | Steven Spielberg
| 1985 | No Award given for 1985.
| 1984 | No Award given for 1984.
| 1983 | No Award given for 1983.
| 1982 | No Award given for 1982.
| 1981 | Albert R."Cubby" Broccoli
| 1980 | No Award given for 1980.
| 1979 | Ray Stark
| 1978 | No Award given for 1978.
| 1977 | Walter Mirisch
| 1976 | Pandro S. Berman
| 1975 | Mervyn LeRoy
| 1974 | No Award given for 1974.
| 1973 | Lawrence Weingarten
| 1972 | No Award given for 1972.
| 1971 | No Award given for 1971.
| 1970 | Ingmar Bergman
| 1969 | No Award given for 1969.
| 1968 | No Award given for 1968.
| 1967 | Sir Alfred Hitchcock
| 1966 | Robert Wise
| 1965 | William Wyler
| 1964 | No Award given for 1964.
| 1963 | Sam Spiegel
| 1962 | No Award given for 1962.
| 1961 | Stanley Kramer
| 1960 | No Award given for 1960.
| 1959 | No Award given for 1959.
| 1958 | Jack L. Warner
| 1957 | No Award given for 1957.
| 1956 | Buddy Adler
| 1955 | No Award given for 1955.
| 1954 | No Award given for 1954.
| 1953 | George Stevens
| 1952 | Cecil B. De Mille
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