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Luminary Award for Career Achievement

The Career Achievement Award was instituted to honor a distinguished member of the entertainment journalism community.

  • 2023 - Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • 2022 - Ryan Seacrest
  • 2019 - Ben Mankiewicz
  • 2018 - George Pennacchio
  • 2017 - Claudia Eller, Andrew Wallenstein
  • 2016 - Chelsea Handler
  • 2015 - Tavis Smiley
  • 2014 - Nancy O'Dell
  • 2013 - Kenneth Turan
  • 2012 - Janice Min
  • 2011 - Hugh M. Hefner
  • 2010 - Sam Rubin
  • 2009 - Joe Morgenstern

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