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.

Life Career Award
Awarded for	Lifetime career of quality science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television material
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films
First award	1976 (Fritz Lang)
Website	saturnawards.org

Recipients

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

1970s

• Fritz Lang (1976)
• Samuel Z. Arkoff (1977)
• Christopher Lee (1979)

1980s

• 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)

1990s

• 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)

2000s

• 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)

2010s

• Irvin Kershner (2010)
• Bert Gordon (2011)
• Michael Biehn (2011)
• Frank Oz (2012)
• James Remar (2012)
• Jonathan Frakes (2013)
• William Friedkin (2013)^[1]
• Malcolm McDowell (2014)
• Nichelle Nichols (2016)
• Lee Majors (2017)
• no award (2018)
• Michael Gruskoff (2019/2020)

2020s

• Kathryn Leigh Scott (2021/2022)
• Jodie Foster (2022/2023)