Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is awarded periodically by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) at the Governors Awards ceremonies for an individual's "outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes". Prior to 2009 and in 2021, this award was presented during the main Oscars ceremony. The award category was instituted in 1956 and first awarded at the 29th Academy Awards, in March 1957. Unlike the Academy Award of Merit, the awards are restricted with the nomination and voting limited to industry professionals that are members of the Board of Governors of AMPAS.<ref name="Honorary Awards">Template:Cite web</ref>

History

The award is named after Danish American screen actor and humanitarian Jean Hersholt (1886–1956), who served as president of the Motion Picture Relief Fund for 18 years. He also served as president of AMPAS from 1945 to 1949.<ref name=about>Template:Cite webTemplate:Dead link</ref> Winners of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award are presented with an Academy Award Oscar statuette. As of the 92nd Academy Awards, there have been 39 awards presented, two of which were posthumous.<ref name=about />

List of recipients

Key

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Year	Image	Recipient	Nationality	Template:Abbr
1956	Y. Frank Freeman circa 1910	Template:Sort	Template:Flag
1957	Samuel Goldwyn in 1919	Template:Sort	Template:Flag Template:Flag
1959	Bob Hope in 1978	Template:Sort	Template:Flag Template:Flag
1960		Template:Sort	Template:Flag
1961		Template:Sort
1962		Template:Sort
1965	–	Template:Sort
1966	–	Template:Sort
1967	Gregory Peck in 1948	Template:Sort
1968	Martha Raye in the 1940s	Template:Sort
1969	George Jessel in the film Stage Door Canteen (1943)	Template:Sort
1970	Frank Sinatra in Pal Joey (1957)	Template:Sort
1972	Rosalind Russell in 1956	Template:Sort
1973		Template:Sort
1974	Arthur B. Krim in 1962	Template:Sort
1975	–	Template:Sort
1977	Charlton Heston in The President's Lady (1953)	Template:Sort
1978	File:Leo-Jaffe-1963.jpg	Template:Sort
1979	–	Template:Sort Template:Dagger
1981	Danny Kaye undated	Template:Sort
1982	–	Template:Sort
1983	File:M. J. Frankovich.jpg	Template:Sort
1984		Template:Sort
1985	Charles "Buddy" Rodgers in 1929	Template:Sort
1989	Howard W. Koch in 1966	Template:Sort
1992	Audrey Hepburn in 1956	Template:SortTemplate:Efn Template:Dagger	Template:Flag
	Elizabeth Taylor in 1956	Template:Sort	Template:Flag
1993	Paul Newman in 1963	Template:Sort
1994	Quincy Jones in 2014	Template:Sort
2001	Arthur Hiller in 1970	Template:Sort	Template:Flag
2004	–	Template:Sort	Template:Flag
2006	Sherry Lansing in 2002	Template:Sort
2008	Jerry Lewis in 1973	Template:Sort
2011	Oprah Winfrey in 2014	Template:Sort		<ref name="Honorary Awards" />
2012	Jeffrey Katzenberg in 2014	Template:Sort
2013	Angelina Jolie in 2014	Template:Sort		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2014	Harry Belafonte in 2011	Template:Sort		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2015	Debbie Reynolds in 1998	Template:Sort		<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2019	Geena Davis in 2019	Template:Sort		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2021	Tyler Perry in 2016	Template:Sort		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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2022	Danny Glover in 2014.	Template:Sort		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2023	Michael J. Fox in 2020.	Michael J. Fox	Template:Flag Template:Flag	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2024	Michelle Satter in 2015.	Michelle Satter	Template:Flag	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2025	File:Richard Curtis MFF 2016.jpg	Richard Curtis	Template:Flag	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

See also

• List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees