The following luminaries have graciously accepted the award of Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Columbia College Hollywood, in recognition of their contributions in the fields of Cinema and Television.
2010
Nancy Cartwright, Actress
2009
John Ratzenberger, Actor
2008
John Badham, Director/Producer
2007
Fern Champion, Casting Director
2006
Steve Binder, Writer/Director/Producer
2005
Robert Townsend, Actor/Writer/Director/Producer
2004
Daniel Petrie, Jr., Writer/Director/Producer
2003
Lionel Chetwynd, Writer/Producer/Director
2002
Larry Mole Parker, Mole-Richardson Co
Kurt Mündl, Director/Cameraman
Sheridan Darwin Reid, Production Manager
Robert E. Thompson, Writer/Producer
Carmen Zapata, Actress/Producer/Lecturer
2001
Frank Leonetti, Inventor
AC Lyles, Producer
Emanuel L. Wolf, Producer
2000
Dede Allen A.C.E., Editor
Sigurjon Sighvatsson, Producer
1999
Corey Allen, Director/Actor/Educator
David Dortort, TV Producer
Paul Johnson, Motion Control Innovator
1998
Henry Bumstead, Production Designer & Art Director
Robert Primes A.S.C., Director of Photography
1997
Kent & Sue McCray, Casting Directors
1996
Shaun Cassidy, Producer/Writer/Actor
Ira Tiffen, Founder, Tiffen Filters
1995
Dan Hammond, Panavision
1994
David Elkins S.O.C., Cinematographer/Author
Robert A. Ferretti A.C.E., Editor/Director of Photography
1993
Rusty Geller, Steadicam Operator
James McKay, Eastman Kodak
1992
Edward James Olmos, Actor & Activist
1991
Charles Fitzsimmons, Producer’s Guild
Brianne Murphy A.S.C., Director of Photography
1990
John Alonzo A.S.C., Director of Photography
1989
Charles Massa, Designer
1988
Sam Firstenberg, Director
Bruce Shoemaker
1987
Stacy Keach, Sr., Producer/Director/Actor
1986
Syd Cassyd, Writer/Producer and Founder of Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Bill Welsh, TV Announcer and President of Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
1985
William Mayhew
1984
Thomas Moody, Jr., TV Producer and Director
Robert H. Wynn, Radio Broadcaster and TV Producer
1983
Alexander Schure, Producer
1982
B. Donald Grant, Producer, Director, Writer
1981
James Earl Jones, Actor
1980
Carl Reiner, Producer, Director, Writer
Yong Son, Dean, Chung-Ang University
1979
Edward Asner, Actor, Producer, Activist
1978
Norman Corwin, Writer and Broadcaster
1977
Joanna Lee, Writer/Producer/Director/Actor
1976
Mervyn Le Roy, Director
Tichi Wilkerson Miles, Publisher
1975
Ralph Nelson
Councilwoman Peggy Stevenson
1974
Robert F. Lewine
