- 2024 Greta Gerwig
- 2023 Erik Lomis
- 2022 Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli
- 2019 Elizabeth Banks
- 2018 Tom Cruise
- 2017 Cheryl Boone Isaacs
- 2016 Donna Langley
- 2015 Jim Gianopulos
- 2014 Tom Sherak
- 2013 Kathleen Kennedy
- 2012 Jeffrey Katzenberg
- 2011 Dick Cook
- 2010 Rob Moore
- 2009 David Linde and Marc Shmuger
- 2008 Mike Campbell
- 2007 Jeff Blake
- 2005/06 Travis Reid
- 2004 Alan Horn
- 2003 Michael D. Eisner
- 2002 Jonathan Dolgen
- 2001 Robert Rehme
- 2000 Robert J. Dowling
- 1999 Kurt C. Hall
- 1998 Bud Stone
- 1997 Bruce C. Corwin
- 1996 Sherry Lansing
- 1995 Robert Shaye
- 1994 Walter H. Dunn
- 1993 Stanley H. Durwood
- 1992 Mike Medavoy
- 1991 Sumner M. Redstone
- 1990 Terry Semel
- 1989 Allen Pinsker
- 1988 Jack Valenti
- 1987 Frank G. Mancuso
- 1986 Michael R. Forman
- 1985 John Rowley
- 1984 Sidney Sheinberg
- 1983 Bernard Myerson
- 1982 Frank Price
- 1981 Salah M. Hassanein
- 1980 Bob Hope
- 1979 Henry G. Plitt
- 1978 Dr. Jules Stein
- 1977 Sherrill C. Corwin
- 1976 Carl L. Patrick
- 1975 E. Cardon Walker
- 1974 Henry H. Martin
- 1973 Ted Ashley
- 1972 Leo Jaffe
- 1971 Samuel Z. Arkoff & James H. Nicholson
- 1970 Irving H. Levin
- 1969 Harry Brandt
- 1968 Laurence A. Tisch
- 1967 Leonard H. Goldenson
- 1966 William R. Forman
- 1965 Robert H. O’Brien
- 1964 Harold J. Mirisch
- 1963 Darryl F. Zanuck
- 1962 Milton R. Rackmil
- 1961 Abe Montague
- 1960 Joseph E. Levine
- 1959 Steve Broidy
- 1958 Robert S. Benjamin & Arthur B. Krim
- 1957 Joseph R. Vogel
- 1956 Robert J. O’Donnell
- 1955 Herman Robbins
- 1954 Simon H. Fabian
- 1953 Barney Balaban
- 1952 Nate J. Blumberg
- 1951 Jack, Harry & Albert Warner
- 1950 Spyros P. Skouras
- 1949 Cecil B. Demille
- 1948 Gus S. Eyssel
- 1947 Adolph Zukor