The Life Career Award

The Life Career Award is presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, in conjunction with their annual Saturn Award ceremony.

Below is a list of recipients and the year the award was presented:

• Fritz Lang (1976)

• Samuel Z. Arkoff (1977)

• Christopher Lee (1979)

• Gene Roddenberry (1980)

• William Shatner (1980)

• John Agar (1981)

• Ray Harryhausen (1982)

• Martin B. Cohen (1983)

• Vincent Price (1986)

• Leonard Nimoy (1987)

• Roger Corman (1988)

• Ray Walston (1990)

• Arnold Schwarzenegger (1992)

• David Lynch (1993)

• Alfred Hitchcock (1994)

• Steve Reeves (1994)

• Whit Bissell (1994)

• Joel Silver (1995)

• Richard Fleischer (1995)

• Sean Connery (1995)

• Wes Craven (1995)

• Albert R. Broccoli (1996)

• Edward R. Pressman (1996)

• Harrison Ford (1996)

• Dino De Laurentiis (1997)

• John Frankenheimer (1997)

• Sylvester Stallone (1997)

• James Coburn (1998)

• James Karen (1998)

• Michael Crichton (1998)

• Nathan Juran (1999)

• Dick Van Dyke (2000)

• George Barris (2000)

• Brian Grazer (2001)

• Robert Englund (2001)

• Drew Struzan (2002)

• Stan Lee (2002)

• Kurt Russell (2003)

• Sid and Marty Krofft (2003)

• Blake Edwards (2004)

• Stephen J. Cannell (2005)

• Tom Rothman (2005)

• Robert Halmi (2008)

• Lance Henriksen (2009)

• Irvin Kershner (2010)

• Bert Gordon (2011)

• Michael Biehn (2011)

• Frank Oz (2012)

• James Remar (2012)

• Jonathan Frakes (2013)

• William Friedkin (2013)

• Malcolm McDowell (2014)

• Nichelle Nichols (2016)

• Lee Majors (2017)

• no award (2018)

• Michael Gruskoff (2019/2020)

• Kathryn Leigh Scott (2021/2022)

• Jodie Foster (2022/2023)

• Official Saturn Awards website