George Eastman Award
The George Eastman Award for distinguished contribution to the art of film was donated by the George Eastman House in 1955. The award was originally presented at the Eastman Theater in Rochester , New York. Today the ceremony takes place at the George Eastman House Dryden Theater .
Award winners
Performers
- Fred Astaire
- Lauren Bacall
- Richard Barthelmess
- Joan Bennett
- Clara Bow
- Louise Brooks
- Charles Chaplin
- Maurice Chevalier
- Ronald Colman
- Gary Cooper
- Joan Crawford
- Viola Dana
- Dolores del Río
- Greta Garbo
- Janet Gaynor
- Richard Gere
- Lillian Gish
- Audrey Hepburn
- Buster Keaton
- Harold Lloyd
- Myrna Loy
- Fredric March
- Mae Marsh
- Kim Novak
- Ramón Novarro
- Maureen O'Sullivan
- Gregory Peck
- Mary Pickford
- William Powell
- Luise Rainer
- Isabella Rossellini
- Norma Shearer
- Sylvia Sidney
- Meryl Streep
- James Stewart
- Gloria Swanson
- Blanche Sweet
- Norma Talmadge
- Johnny Weissmüller
Directors
- Frank Borzage
- Clarence Brown
- Frank Capra
- George Cukor
- Cecil B. DeMille
- John Ford
- Henry King
- Frank Lloyd
- Marshall Neilan
- Willard Van Dyke
- King Vidor
- Martin Scorsese
- Josef von Sternberg
Cameramen
- William Daniels
- Arthur Edeson
- George J. Folsey
- Lee Garmes
- James Wong Howe
- J. Peverell Marley
- Hal Mohr
- Charles Rosher
- Hal Rosson
- John Seitz
- Karl Struss