| Year
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Recipients
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| 1972 (1st)
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Max Fleischer†, Dave Fleischer
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| 1973 (2nd)
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Walter Lantz
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| 1974 (3rd)
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Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Art Babbitt, Winsor McCay†
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| 1975 (4th)
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Grim Natwick, Walt Disney†, John Hubley, Faith Hubley, Norman McLaren
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| 1976 (5th)
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Robert Cannon†, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, Mike Maltese, George Pal, Ward Kimball
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| 1977 (6th)
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Bill Hanna, Joe Barbera, Mel Blanc, Oskar Fischinger†, Bill Scott, Milt Kahl
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| 1978 (7th)
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Jay Ward, Ub Iwerks†, Dick Huemer, Carl Stalling†, Hans Conried
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| 1979 (8th)
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Clyde Geronimi, Bill Melendez, Mae Questel, Otto Messmer
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| 1980 (9th)
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Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas, Cal Howard, Paul Julian, Laverne Harding
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| 1981 (10th)
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T. Hee, Bill Peet, Bill Tytla†, John Whitney, Ken Harris
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| 1982 (11th)
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Ken Anderson, Bruno Bozzetto, June Foray, Don Graham†, Marc Davis
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| 1983 (12th)
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Eric Larson, Fred Moore†, Clarence Nash, Wolfgang Reitherman, Leo Salkin, Stephen Bosustow†, Wilfred Jackson
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| 1984 (13th)
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Daws Butler, David Hand, Jack Kinney, Michael Lah, Robert McKimson†, Richard Williams, Hamilton Luske†
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| 1985 (14th)
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Robert Abel, Preston Blair, Joe Grant, John Halas, Sterling Holloway, Jim McDonald, Phil Monroe, Ben Washam†
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| 1986 (15th)
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Frederic Back, Shamus Culhane, William T. Hurtz, Irven Spence, Emery Hawkins, John Lounsbery†
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| 1987 (16th)
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Paul Driessen, Jack Hannah, Bill Littlejohn, Maurice Noble, Ken O'Connor, Norman Ferguson†, Mel Shaw
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| 1988 (17th)
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Ralph Bakshi, Bob Clampett†, Tissa David, Kihachiro Kawamoto, Virgil Ross
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| 1989–90 (18th)
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Art Clokey, Hicks Lokey, Alex Lovy, Don Messick, Osamu Tezuka†, Lester Novros
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| 1991 (19th)
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Ray Harryhausen, Herbert Klynn, Bob Kurtz, Yuri Norstein, Joe Siracusa, Ruth Kissane†
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| 1992 (20th)
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Les Clark†, Stan Freberg, David Hilberman
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| 1993 (21st)
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George Dunning†, Roy E. Disney, Jack Zander
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| 1994 (22nd)
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Ed Benedict, Arthur Davis, Jean Vander Pyl
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| 1995 (23rd)
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Jules Engel, Vance Gerry, Dan McLaughlin
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| 1996 (24th)
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Mary Blair†, Burny Mattinson, Iwao Takamoto
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| 1997 (25th)
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Willis O'Brien†, Myron Waldman, Paul Winchell
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| 1998 (26th)
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Eyvind Earle, Hayao Miyazaki, Ernest Pintoff
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| 1999 (27th)
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Ray Patterson, Marcell Jankovics, Con Pederson
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| 2000 (28th)
|
Norman McCabe, Hoyt Curtin, Lucille Bliss
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| 2001 (29th)
|
Bill Justice, Pete Alvarado, Bob Givens
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| 2002 (30th)
|
Gene Hazelton, Floyd Norman, Sherman Brothers[1]
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| 2003 (31st)
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Gene Deitch, John Hench†, Thurl Ravenscroft[2]
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| 2004 (32nd)
|
Don Bluth, Virginia Davis, Arnold Stang[3]
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| 2005 (33rd)
|
Corny Cole, Fred Crippen, Tyrus Wong[4]
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| 2006 (34th)
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Andreas Deja, Genndy Tartakovsky, Bill Plympton
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| 2007 (35th)
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John Canemaker, Glen Keane, John Kricfalusi[5]
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| 2008 (36th)
|
Mike Judge, John Lasseter, Nick Park[6]
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| 2009 (37th)
|
Tim Burton, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Bruce Timm
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| 2010 (38th)
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Brad Bird,[7] Eric Goldberg, Matt Groening
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| 2011 (39th)
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Walt Peregoy, Børge Ring, Ronald Searle†
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| 2012 (40th)
|
Terry Gilliam, Oscar Grillo, Mark Henn
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| 2013 (41st)
|
Katsuhiro Otomo, Steven Spielberg, Phil Tippett[8]
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| 2014 (42nd)
|
Didier Brunner, Don Lusk, Lee Mendelson[9]
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| 2015 (43rd)
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Joe Ranft†, Phil Roman, Isao Takahata
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| 2016 (44th)
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Dale Baer, Caroline Leaf, Mamoru Oshii
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| 2017 (45th)
|
James Baxter, Stephen Hillenburg, Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis[10]
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| 2018 (46th)
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Ralph Eggleston, Andrea Romano, Frank Braxton†
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| 2019 (47th)
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Satoshi Kon†, Henry Selick, John Musker, Ron Clements
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| 2020 (48th)
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Willie Ito, Sue C. Nichols†, Bruce W. Smith[11]
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| 2021 (49th)
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Ruben A. Aquino, Lillian Schwartz, Toshio Suzuki[12]
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| 2022 (50th)
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Pete Docter, Evelyn Lambart†, Craig McCracken[13]
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| 2023 (51st)
|
Lotte Reiniger†, Joe Hisaishi, Marcy Page[14]
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