Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards / Lifetime Achievement
Since 1976, great personalities in the film industry have also been honored with the Career Achievement Award for their life's work at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards . No prizes were awarded in this category between 1984 and 1990.
Award winners
- 1976: Allan Dwan
- 1977: King Vidor
- 1978: Orson Welles
- 1979: John Huston
- 1980: Robert Mitchum
- 1981: Barbara Stanwyck
- 1982: Robert Preston
- 1983: Myrna Loy
- 1984–1990: No award ceremony in this category
- 1991: Budd Boetticher
- 1992: No award ceremony in this category
- 1993: John Alton
- 1994: Billy Wilder
- 1995: André De Toth
- 1996: Roger Corman
- 1997: No award ceremony in this category
- 1998: Julius J. Epstein and Abraham Polonsky
- 1999: Dede Allen
- 2000: Conrad L. Hall
- 2001: Ennio Morricone
- 2002: Arthur Penn
- 2003: Robert Altman
- 2004: Jerry Lewis
- 2005: Richard Widmark
- 2006: Robert Mulligan
- 2007: Sidney Lumet
- 2008: John Calley
- 2009: Jean-Paul Belmondo
- 2010: Paul Mazursky
- 2011: Doris Day
- 2012: Frederick Wiseman
- 2013: Richard Lester
- 2014: Gena Rowlands
- 2015: Anne V. Coates
- 2016: Shirley MacLaine
- 2017: Max von Sydow
- 2018: Hayao Miyazaki
- 2019: Elaine May