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Notable Honorees Martin Scorsese • Rob Reiner • Ray Bradbury • Meryl Streep • Joanne Woodward • Stephen Colbert • Steven Soderbergh • Anthony Hopkins • Kate Winslet • Steve Martin • Julianne Moore • John Lithgow • Alec Baldwin • Tommy Lee Jones • Bette Midler • William Shatner • Ed Asner • Elton John • Paula Deen • David Letterman • Barbra Streisand • Bette Davis • Nicole Kidman • Billy Crystal • Viola Davis • Sanjay Gupta • Ralph Nelson • Jessica Lange • Ben Stiller • Maggie Smith • David Fincher • Louis C.K. • Conan O’Brien • Gene Wilder • James Gandolfini • Betty White • John Madden • Michelle Williams • Mary-Louise Parker • Lucille Ball • Peter O’Toole • Marvin Hamlisch • Glenn Close • Dave Chappelle • Liza Minnelli • Carol Burnett • Lily Tomlin • Kelsey Grammer • Andy Rooney • Bryan Cranston • Jane Lynch • Jennifer Aniston • Laurence Fishburne • Trey Parker • Michael Keaton • Mary Tyler Moore • Barry Manilow • Bill O’Reilly • Kathy Bates • Bob Newhart • Toni Collette • George R.R. Martin • Bill Murray • Tina Fey • Rita Moreno • Christopher Plummer • Julia Child • Alex Trebek • Katie Couric • Jonathan Winters • Gillian Anderson • Gwyneth Paltrow • Sid Caesar • Matt Stone • Michael Mann • Salma Hayek • Peter Dinklage • Laura Linney • James Earl Jones • Tony Shalhoub • Don Rickles • David Brinkley • Julia Louis-Dreyfus • Julianna Margulies • Hal Holbrook • Jane Alexander • Edie Falco • Seth MacFarlane • Jodie Foster • Amy Schumer • Neil Patrick Harris • Gena Rowlands • Sarah Michelle Gellar • Patty Duke • Donald O’Connor • Damian Lewis • Tim Rice • Jon Hamm • Katherine Heigl • Anthony Bourdain • Larry King • John Legend • Melissa McCarthy • Roger Ailes • Barbara Walters • Harry Morgan • Cicely Tyson • Jamie Oliver • Ray Romano • James Garner • Kevin Costner • Jeffrey Tambor • Bob Barker • Norman Lear • Julian Fellowes • Danielle de Niese • Kelly Clarkson • Perry Como • Carroll O’Connor • Jorge Ramos • Hume Cronyn • Johnny Carson • Eli Wallach • Jack Hanna • RuPaul • Daniel Schorr • Patricia Arquette • Gertrude Berg • Cathy Guisewite • Sally Field • Jack Klugman • Barbara Stanwyck • Roseanne Barr • Loretta Young • Cliff Robertson • Julie Harris • Imogene Coca • Tony Randall • Richard Pryor • Jim Lehrer • Dinah Shore • James L. Brooks • Ed Bradley • Burgess Meredith • Jim McKay • David Attenborough • Claire Trevor • Charles Kuralt • Jean Simmons • Michael J. Fox • Jack Albertson • Robert Young • John Stossel • Robert Goulet • Shari Lewis • Bea Arthur • John Candy • Albert Finney • Peter Falk • James Whitmore • Steven Yeun • Jeremy Strong • Danny Thomas • Donald Glover • Kieran Culkin • Stanley Tucci • Regina King • Ann Curry • David Cross • Allison Janney • Julia Garner • Edward James Olmos • Kirstie Alley • Frances McDormand • Mariska Hargitay • Rami Malek • Maya Rudolph • Harry Reasoner • Jamie Lee Curtis • Sharon Stone • Sarah Paulson • Jason Bateman • Ali Wong • James Spader • Quinta Brunson • Jim Parsons • Common • Kate McKinnon • Catherine O’Hara • Ewan McGregor • Claire Danes • Christina Applegate • Jeremy Allen White • Brian Cox • Jimmy Van Heusen • Hermes Pan • Mike Wallace • Phil Silvers • Paul Winfield

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Emmy Award statuettes
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Cathy Guisewite after winning an Emmy Award, 1987.
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Viola Davis accepts the award for outstanding lead actress in a drama series for "How to Get Away With Murder"at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
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