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AFI Life Achievement Award

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8.5

Morgan Freeman

Year: 2011
Age At The Time: 74
Famous Work:
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Unforgiven (1992)
Seven (1995)
Million Dollay Baby (2004)

7.6

Mike Nichols

Year: 2010
Age At The Time: 78
Famous Work:
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
The Graduate (1967)
Wit (2001)
Angels In America (2003)

7.7

Michael Douglas

Year: 2009
Age At The Time: 64
Famous Work:
Wall Street (1987)
Traffic (2000)
Wonder Boys (2000)
Basic Instinct (1992)

7.6

Warren Beatty

Year: 2008
Age At The Time: 71
Famous Work:
Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Reds (1981)
Bugsy (1991)

8.7

Al Pacino

Year: 2007
Age At The Time: 67
Famous Work:
The Godfather (1972)
Scarface (1983)
Dick Tracy (1990)
Angels In America (2003)

8.3

Sean Connery

Year: 2006
Age At The Time: 75
Notable Work:
From Russia With Love (1963)
The Untouchables (1987)
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989)
The Hunt For Red October (1990)

7.4

George Lucas

Year: 2005
Age At The Time: 60
Famous Work:
American Graffiti (1973)
Star Wars Episodes I, II, III & IV (1999, 2002, 2005 & 1977)
Indiana Jones Movies
Hook (1991)

8.3

Meryl Streep

Year: 2004
Age At The Time: 54
Famous Work:
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
The Hours (2002)
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Julie & Julia (2009)

8.6

Robert De Niro

Year: 2003
Age At The Time: 59
Famous Work:
Taxi Driver (1976)
Raging Bull (1980)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Goodfellas (1990)

Tom Hanks

Year: 2002
Age At The Time: 45
Famous Work:
Philadelphia (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Cast Away (2000)

7.1

Barbra Streisand

Year: 2001
Age At The Time: 58
Famous Work:
The Way We Were (1973)
Funny Girl (1968)
Yentl (1983)
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)

7.8

Harrison Ford

Year: 2000
Age At The Time: 57
Famous Work:
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)
Witness (1985)
The Mosquito Coast (1986)
The Fugitive (1993)

8.1

Dustin Hoffman

Year: 1999
Age At The Time: 69
Famous Work:
The Graduate (1967)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Tootsie (1982)
Rain Man (1988)

7.8

Robert Wise

Year: 1998
Age At The Time: 83
Famous Work:
West Side Story (1961)
The Sound Of Music (1965)
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Sand Pebbles (1966)

8.8

Martin Scorsese

Year: 1997
Age At The Time: 54
Famous Work:
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Last Temptation Of Christ (1988)
Goodfellas (1990)
The King Of Comedy (1982)

8.6

Clint Eastwood

Year: 1996
Age At The Time: 65
Famous Work:
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
Gran Torino (2008)

8.3

Steven Spielberg

Year: 1995
Age At The Time: 48
Famous Work:
Schindler's List (1993)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)
The Color Purple (1985)

8.6

Jack Nicholson

Year: 1994
Age At The Time: 56
Famous Work:
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Chinatown (1974)
The Shining (1980)
The Departed (2006)

8.2

Elizabeth Taylor

Year: 1993
Age At The Time: 61
Famous Work:
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
The Taming Of The Shrew (1967)

8.2

Sidney Poitier

Year: 1992
Age At The Time: 65
Famous Work:
Lilies Of The Field (1963)
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)
In The Heat Of The Night (1967)
The Defiant Ones (1958)

8.3

Kirk Douglas

Year: 1991
Age At The Time: 74
Famous Work:
Paths Of Glory (1957)
Champion (1949)
The Bad And The Beautiful (1952)
Lust For Life (1956)

8.5

David Lean

Year: 1990
Age At The Time: 82
Famous Work:
Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
A Passage To India (1984)
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
Ryan's Daughter (1970)

8.6

Gregory Peck

Year: 1989
Age At The Time: 72
Famous Work:
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
The Keys Of The Kingdom (1945)
The Boys From Brazil (1978)
Roman Holiday (1953)

8.7

Jack Lemmon

Year: 1988
Age At The Time: 63
Famous Work:
Mister Roberts (1955)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
JFK (1991)
Chaplin (1992)

8.3

Barbara Stanwyck

Year: 1987
Age At The Time: 79
Famous Work:
Ball Of Fire (1941)
Stella Dallas (1938)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1949)

8.9

Billy Wilder

Year: 1986
Age At The Time: 79
Famous Work:
The Apartment (1960)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)

8.3

Gene Kelly

Year: 1985
Age At The Time: 72
Famous Work:
An American In Paris (1951)
Singin' In The Rain (1952)
The Three Musketeers (1948)
Hello, Dolly! (1969)

8.3

Lillian Gish

Year: 1984
Age At The Time: 90
Famous Work:
The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
The Night Of The Hunter (1955)
Duel In The Sun (1946)
Way Down East (1920)

8.2

John Huston

Year: 1983
Age At The Time: 76
Famous Work:
Chinatown (1974)
The Treasure Of Sierra Madre (1948)
The Misfits (1961)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

8.8

Frank Capra

Year: 1982
Age At The Time: 84
Famous Work:
It Happened One Night (1934)
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
You Can't Take It With You (1938)
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)

8.2

Fred Astaire

Year: 1981
Age At The Time: 81
Famous Work:
Funny Face (1957)
Top Hat (1935)
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Shall We Dance (1937)

8.8

James Stewart

Year: 1980
Age At The Time: 71
Famous Work:
Vertigo (1958)
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Rear Window (1954)

Alfred Hitchcock

Year: 1979
Age At The Time: 79
Famous Work:
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
North By Northwest (1959)
Vertigo (1958)

8.7

Henry Fonda

Year: 1978
Age At The Time: 72
Famous Work:
Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)

8.1

Bette Davis

Year: 1977
Age At The Time: 68
Famous Work:
All About Eve (1950)
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)
The Letter (1940)
Dangerous (1935)

8.3

William Wyler

Year: 1976
Age At The Time: 73
Famous Work:
The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946)
Dodsworth (1936)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Wuthering Heights (1939)

8.6

Orson Welles

Year: 1975
Age At The Time: 59
Famous Work:
Citizen Kane (1941)
Touch Of Evil (1958)
Othello (1952)
Macbeth (1948)

8.3

James Cagney

Year: 1974
Age At The Time: 74
Famous Work:
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
White Heat (1949)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Shake Hands With The Devil (1959)

8.5

John Ford

Year: 1973
Age At The Time: 79
Famous Work:
The Searchers (1956)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)

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The AFI Life Achievement Award was established by the Board of Directors of the American Film Institute on February 26, 1973 to honor a single individual for his or her lifetime contribution to enriching American culture through motion pictures and television.
The Trustees initially specified that the recipient must be one who fundamentally advanced the art of film and whose achievements had been acknowledged by the general public as well as by film scholars and critics and the individual's peers. The Trustees also specified that the work of the recipient must have withstood the test of time.