Lifetime Achievement Awards
Over the past 25 years, the Guild has staged ten Lifetime Achievement Awards honouring individual directors, as well as two large-scale Guild Award ceremonies to honour outstanding directors in a variety of categories.
Those awards were presented to the following:
- 1993 Fred Zinnemann
- 1994 Roy Boulting
- 1995 Joan Littlewood
- 1996 Christopher Morahan
- 1997 Sir Richard Eyre
- 1998 Sir Alan Parker
- 1999 Stanley Kubrick
- 2001 Peter Brook
- 2002 John Schlesinger
- 2003 Sir Trevor Nunn
- 2005 Sam Mendes
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