The Lifetime Achievement Emmys are a class of Emmy Awards presented in recognition of the significant lifetime achievements of an individual in the American television industry. Separate Lifetime Achievement Emmys are given out at the Daytime Emmys, the Sports Emmys (known as the Sports Lifetime Achievement Award), the News & Documentary Emmys, and the Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards (known as the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award), among other Emmy ceremonies.
Winners who were presented the lifetime achievement award at the News & Documentary Emmys for their journalistic efforts include Larry King, Ted Koppel, Andrea Mitchell, and Barbara Walters. [1] For his role behind the scenes, business magnate of mass media Ted Turner won the award in 2015. "In my over thirty years of working in the television industry, there is no man that has made a bigger or more long-lasting impact on the world of television news than Ted Turner," Bob Mauro, the president of NATAS, remarked. [2]
British broadcaster David Frost, who conducted the interviews with former President Richard Nixon that received dramatization in the 2008 Oscar-nominated film Frost/Nixon , received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy at the International Emmys in 2009. [3]
Entertainment figures who have received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy at the Daytime Emmys include Judy Sheindlin, the central figure of Judge Judy , [4] and John Clarke, a veteran film and television actor best known for starring on Days of Our Lives for thirty-seven years. [5]
Receiving the award in 1997, Fred Rogers delivered one of the most notable moments in an Emmy acceptance speech during the 24th Daytime Emmy Awards, successfully commanding the audience to give a moment of silence of commemorative thankfulness. Receiving a standing ovation before his comments, Rogers additionally told the crowd "may God be with you". [6]
In 2020, sports reporter Lesley Visser became the first woman to be awarded the Sports Lifetime Achievement Award, for her pioneering work in the male-dominated sports TV industry. [7]
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