2024

35th

Theatre/ Film

Ang Lee

2023

34th

Theatre/ Film

Robert Wilson

2022

33rd

Theatre/ Film

Wim Wenders

2019

31st

Theatre/ Film

Bando Tamasaburo

2018

30th

Theatre/ Film

Catherine Deneuve

2017

29th

Theatre/ Film

Mikhail Baryshnikov

2016

28th

Theatre/ Film

Martin Scorsese

2015

27th

Theatre/ Film

Sylvie Guillem

2014

26th

Theatre/ Film

Athol Fugard

2013

25th

Theatre/ Film

Francis Ford Coppola

2012

24th

Theatre/ Film

Yoko Morishita

2011

23rd

Theatre/ Film

Judi Dench

2010

22nd

Theatre/ Film

Sophia Loren

2009

21st

Theatre/ Film

Tom Stoppard

2008

20th

Theatre/ Film

Sakata Tojuro

2007

19th

Theatre/ Film

Ellen Stewart

2006

18th

Theatre/ Film

Maya Plisetskaya

2005

17th

Theatre/ Film

Merce Cunningham

2004

16th

Theatre/ Film

Abbas Kiarostami

2003

15th

Theatre/ Film

Ken Loach

2002

14th

Theatre/ Film

Jean-Luc Godard

2001

13th

Theatre/ Film

Arthur Miller

2000

12th

Theatre/ Film

Stephen Sondheim

1999

11th

Theatre/ Film

Pina Bausch

1998

10th

Theatre/ Film

Richard Attenborough

1997

9th

Theatre/ Film

Peter Brook

1996

8th

Theatre/ Film

Andrzej Wajda

1995

7th

Theatre/ Film

Nakamura Utaemon

1994

6th

Theatre/ Film

John Gielgud

1993

5th

Theatre/ Film

Maurice Béjart

1992

4th

Theatre/ Film

Akira Kurosawa

1991

3rd

Theatre/ Film

Ingmar Bergman

1990

2nd

Theatre/ Film

Federico Fellini

1989

1st

Theatre/ Film

Marcel Carné