HONOR

Honorary Oscar.

Official Website:
http://www.oscars.com/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Robert Altman	Film Director	20-Feb-1925	20-Nov-2006	M*A*S*H
Gilbert M. Anderson	Actor	21-Mar-1880	20-Jan-1971	Broncho Billy
Michelangelo Antonioni	Film Director	29-Sep-1912	30-Jul-2007	Professione: reporter
Fred Astaire	Dancer	10-May-1899	22-Jun-1987	Broadway ballroom dancer
Ralph Bellamy	Actor	17-Jun-1904	29-Nov-1991	Trading Places
Edgar Bergen	Actor	16-Feb-1903	30-Sep-1978	Radio's greatest ventriloquist
Pandro S. Berman	Film/TV Producer	28-Mar-1905	13-Jul-1996	Top RKO producer, Ivanhoe
Margaret Booth	Editor	14-Jan-1898	28-Oct-2002	Mutiny on the Bounty
Charles Boyer	Actor	28-Aug-1899	26-Aug-1978	Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Charles Brackett	Screenwriter	26-Nov-1892	9-Mar-1969	Billy Wilder's collaborator
John Calley	Film/TV Producer	8-Jul-1930	13-Sep-2011	CEO of Sony Pictures, 1996-2003
Eddie Cantor	Singer	31-Jan-1892	10-Oct-1964	Banjo Eyes
Jack Cardiff	Cinematographer	18-Sep-1914	22-Apr-2009	The Long Ships
Charlie Chaplin	Actor	16-Apr-1889	25-Dec-1977	Silent film comedian
Gary Cooper	Actor	7-May-1901	14-May-1961	High Noon
Francis Ford Coppola	Film Director	7-Apr-1939		The Godfather
Cecil B. DeMille	Film Director	12-Aug-1881	21-Jan-1959	Pioneering film director
Walt Disney	Business	5-Dec-1901	15-Dec-1966	Founder of Disney empire
Kirk Douglas	Actor	9-Dec-1916		Spartacus
Blake Edwards	Film Director	26-Jul-1922	15-Dec-2010	The Pink Panther
Lee De Forest	Inventor	26-Aug-1873	30-Jun-1961	Inventor of the Audion vacuum tube
Sidney Franklin	Film Director	21-Mar-1893	18-May-1972	The Good Earth
Arthur Freed	Film/TV Producer	9-Sep-1894	12-Apr-1973	MGM producer, big budget musicals
Greta Garbo	Actor	18-Sep-1905	15-Apr-1990	Vanted to be alone
Lillian Gish	Actor	14-Oct-1893	27-Feb-1993	Silent film actress, director
Jean-Luc Godard	Film Director	3-Dec-1930		Vivre sa Vie
Samuel Goldwyn	Film/TV Producer	17-Aug-1882	31-Jan-1974	Put the G in MGM
Cary Grant	Actor	18-Jan-1904	29-Nov-1986	North by Northwest
D. W. Griffith	Film Director	22-Jan-1875	21-Jul-1948	The Birth of a Nation
Alec Guinness	Actor	2-Apr-1914	5-Aug-2000	Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars
Jean Hersholt	Actor	12-Jul-1886	2-Jun-1956	Founder, Motion Picture Relief Fund
Alfred Hitchcock	Film Director	13-Aug-1899	29-Apr-1980	Master of Suspense
Bob Hope	Comic	29-May-1903	27-Jul-2003	Centenarian comic
George Jessel	Actor	3-Apr-1898	24-May-1981	Toastmaster General of the United States
Norman Jewison	Film Director	21-Jul-1926		Moonstruck
Danny Kaye	Actor	18-Jan-1913	3-Mar-1987	The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Buster Keaton	Actor	4-Oct-1895	1-Feb-1966	The General
Gene Kelly	Actor	23-Aug-1912	2-Feb-1996	Singin' in the Rain
Deborah Kerr	Actor	30-Sep-1921	16-Oct-2007	From Here to Eternity
Michael Kidd	Choreographer	12-Aug-1915	23-Dec-2007	Award-winning choreographer
Howard W. Koch	Film/TV Producer	11-Apr-1916	16-Feb-2001	The Manchurian Candidate
Stanley Kramer	Film Director	29-Sep-1913	19-Feb-2001	It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Akira Kurosawa	Film Director	23-Mar-1910	6-Sep-1998	Yojimbo
Sherry Lansing	Business	31-Jul-1944		Former Paramount executive
John Lasseter	Film Director	12-Jan-1957		Toy Story
Stan Laurel	Actor	16-Jun-1890	23-Feb-1965	Laurel and Hardy
Jerry Lewis	Comic	16-Mar-1926		Muscular Dystrophy Association
Harold Lloyd	Actor	20-Apr-1893	8-Mar-1971	Prolific silent film actor
Sophia Loren	Actor	20-Sep-1934		La Ciociara
Myrna Loy	Actor	2-Aug-1905	14-Dec-1993	The Thin Man
Ernst Lubitsch	Film Director	28-Jan-1892	30-Nov-1947	To Be or Not To Be
George Lucas	Film Director	14-May-1944		Creator of Star Wars
Sidney Lumet	Film Director	25-Jun-1924	9-Apr-2011	Dog Day Afternoon
Groucho Marx	Comic	2-Oct-1890	19-Aug-1977	You Bet Your Life
Ralph Morgan	Actor	6-Jul-1883	11-Jun-1956	The Kennel Murder Case
Ennio Morricone	Composer	10-Nov-1928		Scored The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
George Murphy	Actor	4-Jul-1902	3-May-1992	Actor and US Senator from California
Conrad Nagel	Actor	16-Mar-1897	24-Feb-1970	The Thirteenth Chair
Hal Needham	Film Director	6-Mar-1931		The Cannonball Run
Paul Newman	Actor	26-Jan-1925	26-Sep-2008	Salad dressing magnate
Peter O'Toole	Actor	2-Aug-1932		Lawrence of Arabia
George Pal	Film Director	1-Feb-1908	2-May-1980	The Time Machine
Mary Pickford	Actor	8-Apr-1892	29-May-1979	America's Sweetheart
Sidney Poitier	Actor	20-Feb-1927		In The Heat Of The Night
Satyajit Ray	Film Director	2-May-1921	23-Apr-1992	Pather Panchali
Edward G. Robinson	Actor	12-Dec-1893	26-Jan-1973	Key Largo
Buddy Rogers	Actor	13-Aug-1904	21-Apr-1999	With Mary Pickford in My Best Girl
Harold Russell	Actor	14-Jan-1914	29-Jan-2002	The Best Years of Our Lives
George Seaton	Screenwriter	17-Apr-1911	28-Jul-1979	Miracle on 34th Street
Mack Sennett	Film/TV Producer	17-Jan-1880	5-Nov-1960	Founder of Keystone Studios
Sam Spiegel	Film/TV Producer	11-Nov-1901	31-Dec-1985	Lawrence of Arabia
Andrzej Wajda	Film Director	6-Mar-1926		The Promised Land
Jerry Wald	Film/TV Producer	16-Sep-1911	13-Jul-1962	Peyton Place
Eli Wallach	Actor	7-Dec-1915		The Magnificent Seven
Hal B. Wallis	Film/TV Producer	14-Sep-1899	5-Oct-1986	Casablanca
Walter Wanger	Film/TV Producer	11-Jul-1894	18-Nov-1968	Joan of Arc
Orson Welles	Actor	6-May-1915	10-Oct-1985	Citizen Kane
David L. Wolper	Film/TV Producer	11-Jan-1928	10-Aug-2010	Roots
Saul Zaentz	Film/TV Producer	28-Feb-1921		One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Richard D. Zanuck	Film/TV Producer	13-Dec-1934	13-Jul-2012	Driving Miss Daisy
Adolph Zukor	Business	7-Jan-1873	10-Jun-1976	Founder of Paramount Pictures

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