1998 honoree
Artists with purpose
Past honorees
Selected recipients documented in the historical site archive.
1998–2003
1999 honoree
Gregory Peck
2000 honoree
Elizabeth Taylor
2001 honoree
Quincy Jones
2002 honoree
Danny Glover
2003 honoree
Oprah Winfrey
Later archival records
2005 honoree
Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis
2006 honoree
Sidney Poitier
2007 honoree
Richard Gere
2008 honoree
Maya Angelou & Norman Lear
2011 honoree
Mia Farrow
2017 honoree
Dionne Warwick
This is a selection of names present in the supplied materials, not an exhaustive or current winners database. The 2008 and 2011 profiles link to contemporaneous event announcements.
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