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AFI Life Achievement Award winners

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  • Jack Nicholson
    Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director, producer, and writer. Throughout his career, Jack Nicholson has portrayed unique and challenging roles, many of which ...
  • Morgan Freeman
    With an authoritative voice and calm demeanour, this ever popular American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US cinema. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for...
  • Steve Martin
    A large nose in Roxanne and large families in Parenthood and Cheaper By The Dozen made a big impression on Hollywood. Twenty years after starting out, Steve Martin is still bringing down the house.Mart...
  • John Williams
    John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. With a career spanning over six decades he has composed some of the most popular and recognizable film scor...
  • Dustin Hoffman
    Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters....

AFI Life Achievement Award

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI_Life_Achievement_Award

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 Recipient is selected and honored at the Oscars ceremony annually, with the award being presented by a guest presenter, who usually gives a brief synopsis of the awarded individual and career background including highlights and achievements.

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.

List of recipients

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI_Life_Achievement_Award#List_of_rec...

Missing profiles (as of 24 June 2016)

Sidney Poitier #20 (1992)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Poitier