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Major Hollywood royalty showed up last night to present Warren Beatty (71) with the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. Beatty has been nominated for 14 Oscars and is the only person other than Orson Welles ("Citizen Kane") to have been nominated as actor, director, writer and producer for the same film ("Reds" and "Heaven Can Wait").
Here are just a few who celebrated with Beatty last night:
Beatty joins these AFI Lifetime Achievement Award winners:
2007: Al Pacino; 2006: Sir Sean Connery; 2005: George Lucas; 2004: Meryl Streep; 2003: Robert De Niro; 2002: Tom Hanks; 2001: Barbra Streisand; 2000: Harrison Ford; 1999: Dustin Hoffman; 1998: Robert Wise; 1997: Martin Scorsese; 1996: Clint Eastwood; 1995: Steven Spielberg; 1994: Jack Nicholson; 1993: Elizabeth Taylor; 1992: Sidney Poitier; 1991: Kirk Douglas; 1990: David Lean; 1989: Gregory Peck; 1988: Jack Lemmon; 1987: Barbara Stanwyck; 1986: Billy Wilder; 1985: Gene Kelly; 1984: Lillian Gish; 1983: John Huston; 1982: Frank Capra; 1981: Fred Astaire; 1980: James Stewart; 1979: Alfred Hitchcock; 1978: Henry Fonda; 1977: Bette Davis; 1976: William Wyler; 1975: Orson Welles; 1974: James Cagney; 1973: John Ford
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