Oscar za životno djelo

Oscar za životno djelo (eng. Academy Honorary Award) filmska je nagrada, koja se dodjeljuje za izniman doprinos razvoju filma, filmske tehnologije i za promicanje filmske umjetnosti. Dodjeljuje se ista statua Oscara, kao i drugim dobitnicima te godine. Prvi su dobitnici filmska kompanija Warner Brothers za film Pjevač jazza, koji je prvi komercijalni zvučni film te Charlie Chaplin. Nagrada se nije dodjeljivala svake godine.

Dobitnici

Godina	Laureati
1929.	Warner Brothers
	Charles Chaplin
1932.	Walt Disney
1935.	Shirley Temple
1936.	David Wark Griffith
1937.	dokumentarni film "The March of Time"
	W. Howard Greene i Harold Rosson
1938.	Mack Sennett
	Edgar Bergen
	Muzej moderne umjetnosti u New Yorku
	W. Howard Greene
1939.	Deanna Durbin i Mickey Rooney
	Harry M. Warner
	Walt Disney
	Oliver Marsh i Allen Davey
	film Spawn of the North
	J. Arthur Ball
1940.	Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
	The Motion Picture Relief Fund
	Judy Garland
	William Cameron Menzies
	Technicolor Company
1941.	Bob Hope
	Nathan Levinson
1942.	Rey Scott
	Erresuma Batuko Informazio Ministerioa
	Leopold Stokowski
	Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins & RCA Manufacturing Company
1943.	Charles Boyer
	Noel Coward
	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1944.	George Pal
1945	Margaret O'Brien
	Bob Hope
1946.	Walter Wanger
	Peggy Ann Garner
	film The House I Live In
	Republic Studio i Daniel J. Bloomberg
1947.	Laurence Olivier
	Harold Russell
	Ernst Lubitsch
	Claude Jarman Jr.
1948.	James Baskett
	film Bill and Coo
	Sciuscià
	William N. Selig, Albert E. Smith, Thomas Armat & George K. Spoor
1949.	Ivan Jandl
	Sid Grauman
	Adolph Zukor
	Walter Wanger
	Jean Hersholt
1950.	Bobby Driscoll
	Fred Astaire
	Cecil B. DeMille
	Jean Hersholt
1951.	George Murphy
	Louis B. Mayer
1952.	Gene Kelly
1953.	George Alfred Mitchell
	Joseph M. Schenck
	Merian C. Cooper
	Harold Lloyd
	Bob Hope
1954.	Pete Smith
	20th Century-Fox Film Corporation
	Joseph I. Breen
	Bell and Howell Company
1955.	Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
	Kemp R. Niver
	Greta Garbo
	Danny Kaye
	Jon Whiteley
	Vincent Winter
1957.	Eddie Cantor
1958.	Charles Brackett
	B.B. Kahane
	Gilbert M. Anderson
	The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
1959.	Maurice Chevalier
1960.	Lee de Forest
	Buster Keaton
1961.	Gary Cooper
	Stan Laurel
	Hayley Mills
1962.	William L. Hendricks
	Fred L. Metzler
	Jerome Robbins
1965.	William Tuttle
1966.	Bob Hope
1967.	Y. Frank Freeman
	Yakima Canutt
1968.	Arthur Freed
1969	John Chambers.
	Onna White
1970.	Cary Grant
1971.	Lillian Gish
	Orson Welles
1972.	Charles Chaplin
1973.	Charles S. Boren
	Edward G. Robinson
1974.	Henri Langlois
	Groucho Marx
1975.	Howard Hawks
	Jean Renoir
1976.	Mary Pickford
1978.	Margaret Booth
1979.	Walter Lantz
	Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, odjel za film
	Laurence Olivier
	King Vidor
1980.	Alec Guinness
	Hal Elias
1981.	Henry Fonda
1982.	Barbara Stanwyck
1983.	Mickey Rooney
1984.	Hal Roach
1985.	James Stewart
	National Endowment for the Arts
1986.	Paul Newman
	Alex North
1987.	Ralph Bellamy
1989.	Kanadski nacionalni filmski odbor
	Eastman Kodak Company
1990.	Akira Kurosawa
1991.	Sophia Loren
	Myrna Loy
1992.	Satyajit Ray
1993.	Federico Fellini
1994.	Deborah Kerr
1995.	Michelangelo Antonioni
1996.	Kirk Douglas
	Chuck Jones
1997.	Michael Kidd
1998.	Stanley Donen
1999.	Elia Kazan
2000.	Andrzej Wajda
2001.	Jack Cardiff
	Ernest Lehman
2002.	Sidney Poitier
	Robert Redford
2003.	Peter O'Toole
2004.	Blake Edwards
2005.	Sidney Lumet
2006.	Robert Altman
2007.	Ennio Morricone
2008.	Robert F. Boyle
2009.	Lauren Bacall
	Roger Corman
	Gordon Willis
2010.	Kevin Brownlow
	Jean-Luc Godard
	Eli Wallach
2011.	James Earl Jones
	Dick Smith
2012.	D.A. Pennebaker
	George Stevens Jr.
	Hal Needham
2013.	Angela Lansbury
	Piero Tosi
	Steve Martin
2014.	Hayao Mijazaki
	Jean-Claude Carrière
	Maureen O'Hara
2015.	Gena Rowlands
	Spike Lee
2016.	Anne V. Coates
	Frederick Wiseman
	Jackie Chan
	Lynn Stalmaster
2017.	Agnès Varda
	Charles Burnett
	Donald Sutherland
	Owen Roizman
2018.	Cicely Tyson
	Lalo Schifrin
	Marvin Levy
2019.	David Lynch
	Lina Wertmüller
	Wes Studi