1998
CINE Lifetime Achievement Award
John S. Hendricks
Founder, Chairman and CEO
Discovery Communications, Inc

2000
CINE Leadership Award
Tim Kelly
President
National Geographic Television

2001
CINE Leadership Award
Pat Mitchell
President
Public Broadcasting System

2002
CINE Lifetime Achievement Award
Ted Turner
Vice Chairman AOL Time Warner & Founder CNN

CINE Leadership Award
Bill Moyers
Award Winning Broadcast Journalist

2003
CINE Lifetime Achievement Award
Sheila Nevins
Executive Vice President for Original Programming for HBO and Cinemax

CINE Leadership Award
Ken Burns
Award Winning Documentarian

CINE Trailblazers Tribute
The Smothers Brothers
Acclaimed Stage and Television Performers

2004
CINE Lifetime Achievement Award
Sharon Percy Rockefeller
President & CEO, WETA

CINE Leadership Award
Stanley Nelson
Master Filmmaker

CINE Trailblazers Award
D A Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus
Cinema Verité Pioneers

2005
CINE Lifetime Achievement Award
Roger Ebert
Preeminent Film Critic

CINE Leadership Award
Bonnie Hammer
President, USA Network & Sci Fi Channel

CINE Trailblazers Award
Alan & Susan Raymond
Pioneers in Observational Documentaries

2006
CINE Lifetime Achievement Award
Albert Maysles
Pioneer in "Direct Cinema" Documentaries

2008
CINE Lifetime Achievement Award
Edward James Olmos
Distinguished Actor (Battlestar Galactica, Stand and Deliver) and Filmmaker

CINE Trailblazer Award
Gwen Ifill
Respected Journalist (Washington Week, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer)

2009
CINE Lifetime Achievement Award
Judy Woodruff
Legendary Journalist (Inside Politics, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer)

CINE Leadership Award
Clark Bunting
President and General Manager, Discovery Emerging Networks

CINE Trailblazer Award
Ted Leonsis
Businessman, Internet Entrepreneur (SnagFilms) and Producer (Nanking, Kicking It)