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TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL TRIBUTES

Each year -- rather than honor a film with an award --The Telluride Film Festival honors three influential people in the world of film Here is a list of each tribute by year since 1974. Note that in 1990 the organizers began to invite a guest director to help program and they are listed here.

1994 Guest Director: John Simon Judy Davis - actor Ken Burns - director Harriet Andersson - actor 1995 Guest Director: Phillip Lopate John Schlesinger - director Zhang Yimou - director The Surrealists - Jan Svankmajer, Guy Madden & The Brothera Quay 1996 Guest Director: B Ruby Rich Shirley MacLaine - actor Mike Leigh - director Alain Cavalier - director 1997 Guest Director: Peter von Bagh Horton Foote - writer Neil Jordon - director Alexander Sokurov - director 1998 Guest Director: Peter Bogdanovich Susumi Hani - director Meryl Streep - actor Vittorio Storaro - cinematographer 1999 Guest Director: Peter Sellers Catherine Deneuve - actor Philip Glass - composer David Lynch - director 2000 Guest Director: Edgardo Cozarinski Ang Lee - director Stellan Skarsgard - actor Im Kwon Taek - director 2001 Guest Director: Salman Rushdie Catherine Breillat - director Om Puri - actor Ken Russell - director

1984 Henry Hathaway - director Andrej Wajda - director Janet Leigh - actor 1985 Emilio Fernandez - director, actor Hanna Schygulla - actor Alexander Trauner - art director 1986 Alexander Mackendrick - director Jiri Menzel - director Isabelle Huppert - actor 1987 Don Siegel - director Stephen Frears - director Tenghiz Abuladze - director, screenwriter 1988 Pedro Almodovar - director Cab Calloway - singer, dancer, actor The Xian Studio with Wu Tian Ming 1989 Peter Greenaway - director Dennis Potter - director Shohei Imamura - director 1990 Guest Director: Bertrand Tavernier Gerard Depardieu - actor John Berry - director Clint Eastwood - actor, director 1991 Guest Director: Laurie Anderson Jodie Foster - actor Nature's Filmmakers - Peter jones, Marion Zunz & Paul Atkins Sven Nykvist - cinematographer 1992 Guest Director: G Cabrera Infante Elmer Bernstein - composer Cy Endfield - director Harvey Keitel - actor 1993 Guest Director: John Boorman Ken Loach - director John Alton - cinematographer Jennifer Jason Leigh - actor

1974 Gloria Swanson - actor Francis Ford Coppola - director Leni Riefenstahl - director 1975 Henry King - director Werner Herzog - director Jack Nicholson - actor 1976 Chuck Jones - animator King Kong (with Fay Wray) King Vidor - director 1977 Michael Powell - director, screenwriter Agnes Varda - director Ben Carre - art director/set design 1978 Hal Roach - producer, director Sterling Hayden - actor The Czech New Wave: Ivan Passer, Jan Nemec, Pavel Juracek, Jaromil Jiles 1979 Abel Gance - director Robert Wise - director Klaus Kinski - actor 1980 Robert Altman - director Maurice Pialat - director Karl Struss - cinematographer 1981 The Character Actor - John Carradine, Elisha Cook, Margaret Hamilton & Woody Strode Carlos Diegues - director Dusan Makavejev - director 1982 Joel McCrea - actor Pierre Braunberger - producer Athol Fugard - playwright, screenwriter 1983 Luis Trenker - writer, director, actor Andrei Tarkovski - director Richard Widmark - actor