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Notable Honorees Frank Sinatra • Robert De Niro • Denzel Washington • Brad Pitt • Jack Nicholson • Kevin Spacey • George Clooney • Mark Rylance • Michael Caine • Tommy Lee Jones • Alan Arkin • Javier Bardem • Morgan Freeman • Jim Broadbent • Robin Williams • Christopher Plummer • Christian Bale • Walter Brennan • Kieran Culkin • J.K. Simmons • Sam Rockwell • Tim Robbins • Joel Grey • Robert Downey, Jr. • Kevin Kline • Cuba Gooding, Jr. • Sean Connery • Jared Leto • Jason Robards • Chris Cooper • Jack Lemmon • George Sanders • Christopher Walken • Mahershala Ali • Martin Landau • Peter Ustinov • Christoph Waltz • Benicio Del Toro • Haing S. Ngor • Walter Matthau • Timothy Hutton • George Burns • Daniel Kaluuya • Gene Hackman • John Gielgud • Joe Pesci • Louis Gossett, Jr. • Anthony Quinn • Heath Ledger • Jack Albertson • John Mills • John Houseman • Walter Huston • Karl Malden • Hugh Emrys Griffith • Joseph Schildkraut • Don Ameche • Martin Balsam • Red Buttons • George Kennedy • Ben Johnson

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