1991 – Jack Lemmon

 Lemmon

This Harvard-educated, piano-playing actor with a remarkably broad range had by this time made some forty-four motion pictures.

1992 – Robert Mitchum

 Mitchum

A rugged leading man for more than four decades, whom Deborah Kerr said was a hundred times greater as an actor than he himself believed.

1993 – Lauren Bacall

 Bacall

Being publicized as "The Look" early on, she soon proved to be much more than that--having "cinema personality to burn," to quote James Agee.

1994 – Robert Redford

 Redford

A movie hero with boyish looks whose strong ideas and ideals led into producing, directing, and the establishment of the Sundance Institute.

1995 – Sophia Loren

 Loren

The slave girl in "Quo Vadis" in 1949 went on to impress in a succession of roles (who can forget "Two Women"?) in more than 80 films in Italy and Hollywood.

1996 – Sean Connery

 Connery

The handsome Scotsman began acting in films and on British TV in 1954. After being James Bond, he went on creating strong men in scores of films.

1997 – Dustin Hoffman

 Hoffman

Erupting on the screen in "The Graduate" (1967), he has not stopped acting with body, soul and heart since.

1998 – Shirley MacLaine

 MacLaine

A Renaissance woman who acts (comedy and drama), dances, sings, and writes about her spiritual wanderings, always ready to go out on a limb.

1999 – Jack Nicholson

 Nicholson

A living legend who doesn't think of himself as such, an enduring superstar simply because he is a terrific actor.

2000 – Barbra Streisand

 Streisand

Singer, actress, film director, producer, writer, and composer whose popularity has endured and grown for nearly four decades.