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ceremony. The Honorary Award celebrates motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards, although prior winners of competitive Academy Awards are not excluded from receiving the Honorary Award. Unless otherwise specified, Honorary Award recipients receive the same gold Oscar statuettes received by winners of the competitive Academy Awards. Unlike the Special Achievement Award instituted in 1972, those on whom the Academy confers its Honorary Award do not have to meet "the Academy's eligibility year and deadline requirements." Like the Special Achievement Award, the Special Award and Honorary Award have been used to reward significant achievements of the year that did not fit in existing categories, subsequently leading the Academy to establish several new categories, and to honor exceptional career achievements, contributions to the motion picture industry, and service to the Academy.Following the searchable ''Official Academy Award Database'' (a primary source for this list), years listed are the years of the

ceremony when the award was presented (with the annual award ceremony following within parentheses, as documented in the ''Official Academy Award Database'').

Recipients

Years for which the Special Award and Honorary Award recipients received their awards and the annual Academy Awards ceremonies at which they received them provided within parentheses throughout (as pertinent) follow this information for recipients listed in the ''Official Academy Award Database'' and

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-based official AMPAS documents.

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was honored on four separate occasions.

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1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

* * ( Posthumous)

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1990s

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2010s

2020s

Notes

References

"Academy Award Statistics"
''Official Academy Awards Database''. Accessed July 28, 2008.

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'', ''oscars.org'' (official website). Accessed July 28, 2008. (2 pages.)
"Honorary Awards: Special Awards and Honorary Awards"
Searchable ''Awards Database''. ''Official Academy Awards Database''. Accessed July 28, 2008.

External links

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The Official Academy Awards Database
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