Luminary Award for Career Achievement The Career Achievement Award was instituted to honor a distinguished member of the entertainment journalism community. 2024 - Kevin Frazier (article) 2023 - Henry Louis Gates Jr. (article) 2022 - Ryan Seacrest (article) 2019 - Ben Mankiewicz (article) 2018 - George Pennacchio (article) 2017 - Claudia Eller, Andrew Wallenstein (article) 2016 - Chelsea Handler (article) 2015 - Tavis Smiley (article) 2014 - Nancy O'Dell (article) 2013 - Kenneth Turan (article) 2012 - Janice Min (article) 2011 - Hugh M. Hefner (article) 2010 - Sam Rubin (article) 2009 - Joe Morgenstern (article)