1987 Annie Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Art of Animation

• Paul Driessen
• Jack Hannah
• Bill Littlejohn
• Maurice Noble
• Kendall O’Connor
• Mel Shaw

Winsor McCay Award

• Norm Ferguson - For his distinguished lifetime achievement to the art of animation

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1988 Annie Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Art of Animation

• Ralph Bakshi
• Bob Clampett (posthumous)
• Tissa David

Winsor McCay Award

• Virgil Ross - For his distinguished lifetime achievement to the art of animation

Foreign Award

• Kihachiro Kawamoto

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1989 (No awards given)

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1990 Annie Awards for Distinguished Contribution to the Art of Animation

• Art Clokey
• Hicks Lokey
• Alex Lovey
• Don Messick

Winsor McCay Award

• Lester Novros
• Osama Tazuka

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1991 Annie Awards for Distinguished Contribution to the Art of Animation

• Ruth Kissane
• Herbert Lynn
• Robert Kurtz
• Yuri Norstein
• Joseph Siracusa

 Winsor McCay Award

• Raymond Harryhausen