List of lifetime achievement awards explained

Lifetime achievement awards are awarded by various organizations, to recognize contributions over the whole of a career, rather than or in addition to single contributions.

Such awards, and organizations presenting them, include:

A

• A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award
• Academy Honorary Award
• Acharius Medal
• ACUM prize
• AFI Life Achievement Award
• Áillohaš Music Award
• American Society of Landscape Architects Medal
• Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
• ANR National Award
• Asianet Film Awards

B

• BBC Jazz Awards
• BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award
• BET Lifetime Achievement Award
• BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards
• BBC Sports Personality of the Year
• BET Awards
• Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award
• Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement
• Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music
• British Academy Television Awards
• British Comedy Awards
• Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award
• BCAHRB Lifetime Achievement Award

C

• Canadian Music Hall of Fame
• Carol Burnett Award for Achievement in Television
• Çavaria Lifetime Achievement Award
• Chicago International Film Festival
• Christopher Brennan Award
• C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award
• Council of Fashion Designers of America
• Covenant Awards
• CTBUH Skyscraper Award
• Premio Cuervo Tradicional

D

• Dadasaheb Phalke Award
• Daytime Emmy Award
• Dawn Breakers International Film Festival
• Denham Harman Research Award
• Detektor Master 456 squids
• Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime Achievement in Sports and Games
• Disney Legend Award
• Donostia Award
• Down Beat Lifetime Achievement Award
• Dr. Rajkumar Award

E

• Earle Grey Award
• Emmy Award
• Enrico Fermi Award

F

• Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Award
• Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award
• Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award (South)
• Folksbiene National Yiddish Theatre

G

• GMA Canada
• GMA Canada Lifetime Achievement Award
• Gawad Urian Lifetime Achievement Award
• Game Developers Choice Awards
  • General Administration of Sport of China | All-China Youth Federation Gershwin Prize
• Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award
• Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
• Golden Pen Lifetime Achievement Award
• Governor General's Awards
• Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
• Gumshoe Awards

H

• Hong Kong Film Award for Lifetime Achievement
• Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award
• Humboldt Prize

I

• IIFA Lifetime Achievement Award
• Indspire Awards
• International Sculpture Center
• International Clarinet Association Honorary Membership
• International League Against Epilepsy
• International Primatological Society IPS Lifetime Achievement Award^[1]
• Internet Hall of Fame

J

• J. C. Daniel Award
• Jim Thorpe Lifetime Achievement Award
• John Bunn Award
• John Muir Lifetime Achievement Award
• JA Lifetime Achievement Award

K

• Kennedy Center Honors
• Kerala State Film Award for Lifetime Achievement
• Kluge Prize

L

• Lannan Literary Awards
• Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
• Lemelson–MIT Prize
• Lifetime Achievement Emmy
• Leroy P. Steele Prize
• Lo Nuestro Excellence Award
• List of Israel Prize recipients
• List of Grammy Award categories
• List of National Hockey League awards
• Longford Lyell Award
• Lux Style Award

M

• MAC Awards
• Margaret Collier Award
• Martial Arts Industry Association (MAIA) — Australia
• MTV Movie Awards
• MTV Video Vanguard Award
• St. Mother Theresa University for Digital Education Excellence and Sustainability Development and World Peace

N

• NTR National Award
• NAACP Theatre Award – Lifetime Achievement Award
• National Air and Space Museum Trophy
• National Television Award for Special Recognition
• NBA Lifetime Achievement Award
• New Dimension Project Inc Lifetime Achievement Award
• Nigar Awards
• Nuclear-Free Future Award

O

• Oscar Hammerstein Award

P

• Paul "Bear" Bryant Award
• PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing
• Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association#Awards
• PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award
• Photographic Society of America
• Pilgrim Award
• Positive Coaching Alliance
• Pride of Britain Awards
• PWI Stanley Weston Award

R

• Raghupathi Venkaiah Award
• Retail Council of Canada

S

• Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History
• Slobodan Piva Ivković Award for Lifetime Achievement
• Society for Developmental Biology (SDB)
• Special Tony Award
• Sports Lifetime Achievement Award
• Star Awards for Special Achievement Award
• Star Screen Lifetime Achievement Award
• Stardust Award for Lifetime Achievement

T

• Themed Entertainment Association
• Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism

U

• USENIX

W

• Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award
• World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement
• World Soundtrack Award – Lifetime Achievement

Y

• Young Artist Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award

Z

• Zee Cine Award for Lifetime Achievement
• Zlatni pečat Jugoslovenske kinoteke

Notes and References

1. Web site: Recipients of the IPS Lifetime Achievement Awards. www.internationalprimatologicalsociety.org.