The Life Career Award is presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, in conjunction with their annual Saturn Award ceremony.

Below is a list of recipients and the year the award was presented:

• Fritz Lang (1976)
• Samuel Z. Arkoff (1977)
• Christopher Lee (1979)

• Gene Roddenberry (1980)
• William Shatner (1980)
• John Agar (1981)
• Ray Harryhausen (1982)
• Martin B. Cohen (1983)
• Vincent Price (1986)
• Leonard Nimoy (1987)
• Roger Corman (1988)

• Ray Walston (1990)
• Arnold Schwarzenegger (1992)
• David Lynch (1993)
• Alfred Hitchcock (1994)
• Steve Reeves (1994)
• Whit Bissell (1994)
• Joel Silver (1995)
• Richard Fleischer (1995)
• Sean Connery (1995)
• Wes Craven (1995)
• Albert R. Broccoli (1996)
• Edward R. Pressman (1996)
• Harrison Ford (1996)
• Dino De Laurentiis (1997)
• John Frankenheimer (1997)
• Sylvester Stallone (1997)
• James Coburn (1998)
• James Karen (1998)
• Michael Crichton (1998)
• Nathan Juran (1999)

• Dick Van Dyke (2000)
• George Barris (2000)
• Brian Grazer (2001)
• Robert Englund (2001)
• Drew Struzan (2002)
• Stan Lee (2002)
• Kurt Russell (2003)
• Sid and Marty Krofft (2003)
• Blake Edwards (2004)
• Stephen J. Cannell (2005)
• Tom Rothman (2005)
• Robert Halmi (2008)
• Lance Henriksen (2009)

• Irvin Kershner (2010)
• Bert Gordon (2011)
• Michael Biehn (2011)
• Frank Oz (2012)
• James Remar (2012)
• Jonathan Frakes (2013)
• William Friedkin (2013)^[1]
• Malcolm McDowell (2014)
• Nichelle Nichols (2016)
• Lee Majors (2017)
• no award (2018)
• Michael Gruskoff (2019/2020)

• Kathryn Leigh Scott (2021/2022)
• Jodie Foster (2022/2023)

• Official Saturn Awards website