Fred MacMurray - Film Actor; The Shaggy Dog, The Absent Minded Professor
Les Clark - Animation (given posthumously); one of Walt's "Nine Old Men"
Marc Davis - Animation & Imagineering; one of Walt's "Nine Old Men"
Ub Iwerks - Animation & Imagineering (given posthumously); the hand behind the mouse
Ollie Johnston - Animation; one of Walt's "Nine Old Men"
Milt Kahl - Animation (given posthumously); one of Walt's "Nine Old Men"
Ward Kimball - Animation & Imagineering; one of Walt's "Nine Old Men"
Eric Larson - Animation (given posthumously); one of Walt's "Nine Old Men"
John Lounsbery - Animation (given posthumously); one of Walt's "Nine Old Men"
Wolfgang Reitherman - Animation (given posthumously); one of Walt's "Nine Old Men"
Frank Thomas - Animation; one of Walt's "Nine Old Men"
1990: (inducted 10/18/90)
Roger Broggie - Imagineering; mechanical genius
Joe Fowler - Attractions; theme park construction
John Hench - Animation & Imagineering; designer of Cinderella Castle
Richard Irvine - Imagineering (given posthumously); theme park architect
Herb Ryman - Imagineering (given posthumously); theme park designer
Richard Sherman - Music; "It's a Small World (after all)"
Robert Sherman - Music; "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
1991: (inducted 10/22/91)
Ken Anderson - Animation & Imagineering; jack of all trades
Julie Andrews - Film Actress; Mary Poppins
Carl Barks - Animation & Publishing; Donald Duck comic books
Mary Blair - Animation & Imagineering (given posthumously); It's a Small World attraction
Claude Coats - Animation & Imagineering; stunning watercolor backgrounds
Don DaGradi - Animation & Film; screenwriter & misplaced cartoonist
Sterling Holloway - Animation, Actor; the original voice of Winnie the Pooh
Fess Parker - Film & Television Actor; king of the wild frontier - Davy Crockett
Bill Walsh - Film & Television (given posthumously); producer and writer
1992: (inducted 10/21/92)
Jimmie Dodd - Television Actor (given posthumously); Adult Mouseketeer & musician
Bill Evans - Imagineering; horticulturist & landscape specialist
Annette Funicello - Film & Television Actress; everyone's favorite Mouseketeer
Joe Grant - Animation; story artist
Jack Hannah - Animation; director of TV shows and films
Winston Hibler - Film (given posthumously); narrator, writer & director
Ken O'Connor - Animation & Imagineering; genius layout artist and art director
Roy Williams - Animation & Television Actor (given posthumously); the Big Mooseketeer
1993: (inducted 10/20/93)
Pinto Colvig - Animation & Voice (given posthumously); human library of sound effects
Buddy Ebsen - Film & Television actor; Davy Crockett's sidekick George Russel
Peter Ellenshaw - Film; special-effects artist, matte painter and production designer
Blaine Gibson - Animation & Imagineering; master sculptor
Harper Goff - Film & Imagineering; artist/designer
Irving Ludwig - Film; exhibitor/distributor
Jimmy MacDonald - Animation & Voice (given posthumously); 2nd voice of Mickey Mouse
Clarence Nash - Animation & Voice (given posthumously); original voice of Donald Duck
Donn Tatum - Administration; first president of Walt Disney World Company
Card Walker - Administration; president of Walt Disney Productions
1994: (inducted 11/22/94)
Adriana Caselotti - Animation & Voice Actress; voice of Snow White
Bill Cottrell - Animation & Imagineering; first president of Walt Disney Imagineering
Marvin Davis - Film & Imagineering; art director & theme park designer
Van France - Attractions; founder of the University of Disneyland training center
David Hand - Animation (given posthumously); director of Snow White
Jack Lindquist - Attractions; Disneyland's first advertising manager
Bill Martin - Imagineering; art director and set designer
Paul Smith - Music (given posthumously); pioneer in motion picture music
Frank Wells - Administration (given posthumously); President and Chief Operating Officer
1995: (inducted 11/30/95)
Wally Boag - Attractions; the original Pecos Bill of Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue
Fulton Burley - Attractions; Golden Horseshoe Revue's silver-toned tenor
Dean Jones - Film Actor; The Love Bug
Angela Lansbury - Film Actress; Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Edward Meck - Attractions (given posthumously); publicist
Fred Moore - Animation; genius animator
Thurl Ravenscroft - Animation & Voice; lead vocalist on "Grim Grinning Ghosts"
Wathel Rogers - Imagineering; breathed life into Audio-Animatronics
Betty Taylor - Attractions; Sluefoot Sue of Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue
1996: (inducted 10/16/96)
Bob Allen - Attractions (given posthumously); ride operator to vice president of WDW
Rex Allen - Film & Television Actor; narrator/singer/actor
X Atencio - Animation & Imagineering; animator, attraction developer, songwriter
Betty Lou Gerson - Animation & Voice; voice of Cruella De Vil
Bill Justice - Animation & Imagineering; Audio-Animatronics programmer
Sam McKim - Imagineering; creator of the Disneyland souvenir maps
Bob Matheison - Attractions; helped research and develop Walt Disney World
Bob Moore - Animation & Film; expert cartoonist
Bill Peet - Animation & Story; story developer & children's book author
Joe Potter - Attractions (given posthumously); engineering and logistical planning genius
1997: (inducted 4/11/97)
Lucien Adés - Music (awarded posthumously); pioneer of first "read-along" record album
Angel Angelopoulos - Publishing (awarded posthumously); first Greek Disney magazine
Antonio Bertini - Character Merchandise; initiated production & marketing of 8-mm & 16-mm shorts
Armand Bigle - Character Merchandise; opened up merchandising markets throughtout Europe
Poul Brahe Pederson - Publishing (awarded posthumously); "Donald Duck" magazine in Europe
Gaudenzio Capelli - Publishing; editor-in-chief of "Topolino"
Roberto de Leonardis - Film (awarded posthumously); translated films for Italian audiences
Cyril Edgar - Film (awarded posthumously); joint managing director of Walt Disney Productions, Ltd
Wally Feignoux - Film (awarded posthumously); continental cinema representative in Paris, France
Didier Fouret - Publishing (awarded posthumously); built Disney's image in France
Mario Gentilini - Publishing (awarded posthumously); director of "Topolino" magazine
Cyril James - Film & Merchandise (awarded posthumously); business genius
Horst Koblischek - Character Merchandise; creator of the Sport Goofy Trophy
Gunnar Mansson - Character Merchandise; representative in the Nordic countries
Arnoldo Mondadori - Publishing (awarded posthumously); publishing genius
Armand Palivoda - Film (awarded posthumously); motion picture distributor in Switzerland
André Vanneste - Character Merchandise (awarded posthumously); promoted publications
throughout Belgium
Paul Winkler - Character Merchandise (awarded posthumously); first to establish Disney's presence
in France through publishing
1998: (inducted 10/16/98)
James Algar - Animation & Film (awarded posthumously); The Living Desert
Buddy Baker - Music; composed more than 200 scores for motion pictures, TV & theme parks
Kathryn Beaumont - Animation & Voice; voice of Alice in Wonderland
Virginia Davis - Animation; star of first 13 Alice Comedies
Roy E. Disney - Film, Animation & Administration; Walt's nephew, Company vice chairman and head of animation department
Don Escen - Administration; administrator and company treasurer
Wilfred Jackson - Animation (awarded posthumously); devised method of synchronizing animation with music
Glynis Johns - Film Actress; Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins
Kay Kamen - Character Merchandise (awarded posthumously); the first Mickey watches
Paul Kenworthy - Film; photographer for The Vanishing Prairie
Larry Lansburgh - Film & Television; director of The Wetback Hound
Hayley Mills - Film Actress; Pollyana
Al and Emma Milotte - Film (awarded posthumously); wildlife film experts
Norman "Stormy" Palmer - Film; editor
Lloyd Richardson - Film; editor
Kurt Russell - Film Actor; The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Ben Sharpsteen - Animation & Film (awarded posthumously); director/producer
Masatomo Takahashi - Administration; Tokyo Disneyland
Vladimir (Bill) Tytla - Animation (awarded posthumously); responsible for Stromboli, the evil puppeteer in Pinocchio
Dick Van Dyke - Film Actor; Mary Poppins
Matsuo Yokoyama - Character Merchandise; president of Walt Disney Enterprises of Japan
1999: (inducted 11/10/99)
Tim Allen - Television & Film Actor; the voice of Buzz Lightyear
Mary Costa - Animation & Voice; the voice of Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty
Norm Ferguson - Animation (awarded posthumously); supervising animator & sequence director
Bill Garity - Film (awarded posthumously); pioneer in sound and camera techniques
Yale Gracey - Animation & Imagineering (awarded posthumously); special effects & lighting artist
Al Konetzni - Character Merchandise; artist and idea man
Ham Luske - Animation (awarded posthumously); supervising animator
Dick Nunis - Attractions; director of park operations
Charlie Ridgway - Attractions; director of press and publicity
2000: (inducted 10/12/00)
Grace Bailey - Animation (awarded posthumously); Ink & Paint department
Harriet Burns - Imagineering; designer and builder of prototypes for theme park attractions
Joyce Carlson - Animation & Imagineering; helped create it's a small world
Ron Dominguez - Parks & Resorts; executive vice president of Walt Disney Attractions
Cliff Edwards - Animation & Voice (awarded posthumously); the voice of Jiminy Cricket
Becky Fallberg - Animation; manager of the Ink & Paint department
Dick Jones - Animation & Voice; the voice of Pinocchio
Dodie Roberts - Animation; supervisor of the Studio paint lab
Retta Scott - Animation (awarded posthumously); the Studio's first woman animator
Ruthie Tompson - Animation; supervisor of the Scene Planning department for the Studios
2001: (inducted 12/05/01)
Howard Ashman - Music (awarded posthumously); producer & lyricist
Bob Broughton - Film; camera effects artist
George Bruns - Music (awarded posthumously); composer of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"
Frank Churchill - Music (awarded posthumously); composer of "Someday My Prince Will Come"
Leigh Harline - Music (awarded posthumously); composer of "When You Wish Upon A Star"
Fred Joerger - Imagineering; crafted three-dimensional miniature models of theme park attractions
Alan Menken - Music; composer of "A Whole New World"
Martin A. "Marty" Sklar - Imagineering; Vice Chairman and Principal Creative Executive
Ned Washington - Music (awarded posthumously); lyricist of "When You Wish Upon a Star"
Tyrus "Ty" Wong - Animation; landscape painter for Bambi
2002: (inducted 3/15/02)
Ken Annakin - Film; director of Swiss Family Robinson
Hugh Attwooll - Film; producer
Maurice Chevalier - Film Actor (awarded posthumously); In Search of the Castaways
Phil Collins - Music; composer for Tarzan and Brother Bear
Sir John Mills - Film Actor; Swiss Family Robinson
Robert Newton - Film & Television Actor (awarded posthumously); Treasure Island
Sir Tim Rice - Music; lyricist for Beauty and the Beast
Robert (Bob) Stevenson - Film (awarded posthumously); director of Mary Poppins
Richard Todd - Film & Television Actor; The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
David Tomlinson - Film; Mary Poppins, The Love Bug
2003: (inducted 10/16/03)
Neil Beckett - Merchandise (awarded posthumously); representative in New Zealand
Tutti Camarata - Music; co-founder of Disneyland Records
Edna Francis Disney - Family (awarded posthumously); wife of Roy O. Disney
Lillian Disney - Family (awarded posthumously); wife of Walt Disney
Orlando Ferrante - Imagineering; vice president of Engineering, Design, and Production
Richard Fleischer - Film; director of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Floyd Gottfredson - Animation (awarded posthumously); Mickey Mouse daily comic strips
Buddy Hackett - Film & Television; The Love Bug
Harrison "Buzz" Price - Research Economist; helped hand-pick optimum locations for US parks
Alfred Taliaferro - Cartoonist (awarded posthumously); Donald Duck daily comic strips
Ilene Woods - Music & Voice; voice of CInderella
2004: (inducted 9/17/04)
Bill Anderson - Film, Television & Administration (awarded posthumously); prolific film & television producer
Tim Conway - Film Actor; The Apple Dumpling Gang
Rolly Crump - Imagineering; executive designer
Alice Davis - Imagineering; designed and dressed animated figures for park attractions
Karen Dotrice - Film & Television Actress; Mary Poppins
Matthew Garber - Film Actor (awarded posthumously); Mary Poppins
Leonard H. Goldenson - Television (awarded posthumously); ABC Founder & Chairman of the Board
Bob Gurr - Imagineering; developer of park attractions
Ralph Kent - Imagineering & Attractions; designer of first limited-edition Mickey Mouse watch for adults
Irwin Kostal - Music (awarded posthumously); Award-winning conductor & orchestrator
Mel Shaw - Animation; animator & story man
2005: (inducted 9/20/05)
Chuck Abbott - Parks & Resorts (awarded posthumously); one of Disneyland's foremost Attractions Hosts
Milt Albright - Parks & Resorts; founder of the Magic Kingdom Club
Hideo Amemiya - Parks & Resorts; vice president and general manager of the Disneyland Hotel
Hideo Aramaki - Parks & Resorts; executive chef over all food establishments in Disneyland
Chuck Boyajian - Custodial; first manager of Custodial Operations at Disneyland
Charles Boyer - Parks & Resorts; Disneyland's master illustrator
Randy Bright - Imagineer; executive producer, Disneyland and Walt Disney World Theme Parks
James Cora - Parks & Resorts; one of three production directors for WDW, responsible for Fantasyland and Tomorrowland.
Robert Jani - Parks & Resorts; master plan consultant for Disneyland Paris and Disney-MGM Studios
Mary Jones - Parks & Resorts; Disneyland Community Relations
Art Linkletter - Parks & Resorts; co-host of Disneyland's opening TV broadcast
Mary Anne Mang - Parks & Resorts; Convention & Tour Sales department
Steve Martin - Parks & Resorts; Disneyland Cast Member
Tom Nabbe - Parks & Resorts; Disneyland's original Tom Sawyer
Jack Olsen - Parks & Resorts; novelties & souvenirs
Cicely Rigdon - Parks & Resorts; Tour Guide Department
William Sullivan - Parks & Resorts; Disneyland operations supervisor
Jack Wagner - Parks & Resorts; official park announcer
Vesey Walker - Parks & Resorts; Disneyland's first bandmaster
Tim Considine - Television Actor; The Adventures of Spin and Marty
Kevin Corcoran - Film Actor; Swiss Family Robinson
Don Edgren - Imagineer; Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean & Space Mountain
Al Dempster - Animation (given posthumously); background artist on Fantaisa & Dumbo
Paul Frees - Film & Parks (given posthumously); The Haunted Mansion
Peter Jennings - Television (given posthumously); ABC news anchor
Sir Elton John - Music; songwriter for The Lion King & Aida
Jimmy Johnson - Music (given posthumously); founder of Walt Disney Records
Tommy Kirk - Film & Televison Actor; Old Yeller & The Mickey Mouse Club
Joe Ranft - Film (given posthumously); Pixar story artist for Toy Story 2 & Monsters, Inc.
David Stollery - Television Actor; The Adventures of Spin and Marty
Ginny Tyler - Television & Film Actress; Disneyland Records' Disneyland Storyteller
The Disney Legends awards
are given annually by The
Walt Disney Company to honor
those who have made a
notable
contribution
to the
company.
2007: (inducted 10/10/07)
Roone Arledge - Television (given posthumously); president of ABC news
Art Babbitt - Animation (given posthumously); "The Greatest Animator Ever"
Carl Bongirno - Imagineer; resort finance
Marge Champion - Animation; actress/live-action reference model
Dick Huemer - Animation (given posthumously); jack of all trades
Ron Logan - Parks & Resorts; music director
Lucille Martin - Administration; Walt's personal assistant
Tom Murphy - Administration; built Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. from a single TV and radio station into a multibillion-dollar international media conglomerate
Randy Newman - Music; Academy Award winning songwriter
Floyd Norman - Animation; cartoonist/animator/author
Bob Schiffer - Film Production (given posthumously); head of makeup department
Dave Smith - Archives; historian/author
email: disneyhistory@gmail.com
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Recipients are chosen by a selection committee consists of long-time Disney executives, historians and other authorities. Disney's corporate
headquarters in Burbank, California features a plaza honoring the recipients outside Team Disney - The Michael D. Eisner Building. Each honoree is represented by a bronze plaque; the plaque features the recipient's handprints and signature if they were living when named a Disney Legend.
The Disney Legends award - created by artist Andrea Favilli - depicts the arm of Mickey Mouse holding a star-tipped wand.
From 1989 to 1996, the Disney Legends ceremony was held at the Disney Legends Promenade (sidewalk area in front of the Disney Studio Theatre).
In 1997, the ceremony was moved to the Disneyland Hotel at Disneyland Resort Paris due to the 18 international Disney Legends who were honored,
and for the resort’s fifth anniversary. In 1998 the cermonies were moved to its present location in Burbank.
2008: (inducted 10/13/08)
Wayne Allwine - Voice actor; Mickey Mouse
Bob Booth - Imagineer; Enchanted Tiki Room, Epcot, World's Fair
Neil Gallagher - Imagineer; Magic Kingdom, Disneyland Paris
Frank Gifford - Television; broadcasting
Toshio Kagami - Administration; chairman and CEO of the Oriental Land Company
Burny Mattinson - Animator; Lady & the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty
Walter Peregoy - Animator; Peter Pan, Jungle Book
Dorothea Redmond - Imagineer; New Orleans Square
Russi Taylor - Vocie actor; Minnie Mouse
Oliver Wallace - Music; Dumbo, Cinderella
Barbara Walters - Television; broadcasting
1988:
no awards given
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2009: (inducted 9/10/09)
Tony Anselmo - Voice actor & animator; Donald Duck
Harry Archinal - Administration; former president of Buena Vista International
Beatrice Arthur - Actress (given posthumously); The Golden Girls
Bill Farmer - Voice actor; Pluto
Estelle Getty - Actress (given posthumously); The Golden Girls
Don Iwerks - Imagineer; CircleVision 360, Star Tours
Rue McClanahan - Actress; The Golden Girls
Leota Toombs Thomas - Imagineer (given posthumously); Haunted Mansion
Betty White - Actress; The Golden Girls
Robin Williams - Actor; Aladdin, Flubber
"The Disney Legends Awards program was established in 1987 to honor individuals whose body of work has made a significant
impact on the Disney legacy. We have honored more than 200 people including, animators, voice talent, theme park designers,
songwriters and administrators. It is a group of really wonderful people, many of whom worked with Walt and Roy, making this
company what it is today!" -Jeff Hoffman (the man behind the Disney Legends Awards)
2010:
no awards given
2011: (inducted 8/19/11)
Jodi Benson - Voice actress & singer; Ariel in Little Mermaid
Barton "Bo" Boyd - Assistant Merchandise Supervisor at Disneyland
Jim Henson - Puppeteer and the creator of global phenomenon, The Muppets
Linda Larkin - Actress & voice performer; Jasmine in Aladdin
Paige O'Hara - Actress & singer; Belle in Beauty and the Beast
Regis Philbin - Talk show host & entertainer
Anika Noni Rose - Actress & singer; Princess Tiana in The Princess and the Frog
Lea Salonga - Actress & singer; Jasmine in Aladdin & Fa Mulan in Mulan
Ray Watson - Chairman of the Board
Guy Williams - Actor; Zorro
Jack and Bonita Wrather - Original owners of The Disneyland Hotel
"I was at Disneyland on one occasion when a young girl
mistook me for Walt Disney and asked for an autograph.
I signed it without correcting her even though Walt was
standing right there. Later that same day, someone
called out to Walt Are you Walt Disney? I was working a
few yards away and Walt pointed to me and said, No,
he’s over there!" -John Hench
"Disneyland is the road map of Walt Disney’s life."
-Vance France
"Walt had an eye for detail other people would miss. He
made sure I rounded all the street corners because
people don’t turn square corners." -Bill Martin
"Walt had a way of finding other talents in you."
-X. Atencio
"Walt told me after one story meeting that he didn’t care
how long it took, but to get it right." -Eric Larson
"Most people credit Roy Disney with being the
money man, but Walt understood the numbers
when we presented them. Walt had a
consummate grasp of the financial situation."
-Harrison "Buzz" Price
"Walt had a good feel for music and
always knew what was good. Walt
always wanted to do it right."
-Buddy Baker
"Walt was very enthusiastic, and it
was fun to see him take a flit gun out
of my hand and say, ‘Let me try
this’, while I was working on a
project. He was like a kid again."
-Harriet Burns
"I ran into him once at the Beverly Hilton at
the Thalian’s Ball with Debbie Reynolds. He
was in another room, and I went up and I had
a thread hanging from my dress shirt. I was in
a rented tux. And he said, You’re going to
have to dress better than that. Then he put
his arm around my shoulder and said to Hedda Hopper, This is my lucky actor."
-Tommy Lirk
"He (Walt) was such a hands-on character. He had a
temperament and instincts to know what was funny
and what was a good idea. His intuitiveness was
probably the most outstanding quality of the man."
-Joe Grant
"He’d (Walt) tell you what he didn’t like and he’d tell
you what he did like and he’d do it in front of a bunch
of people…make you feel pretty bad. But he would
protect you. I had people threatening to fire me all the
time, because I wouldn’t put their favorite scene
in…And Walt would protect me from that. And he
always sent my wife flowers when we had children. I
remember a lot of wonderful things about Walt."
-Norman "Stormy" Palmer
"I figured that if Mr. Disney, the boss of all of
us at the studio, could work that hard, well,
I’d just have to dig the spurs into myself kind
of deep just to keep up."
-Fess Parker
"Walt was a great person to be around and he was a
man who you simply had to respect."
-Blaine Gibson
"She's (Ariel) in my blood, this character. This has
been a part of my life now since 1985, and it's been
ongoing. In between the movies we're pretty non-
stop with the characters, as far as the princesses.
After the first film then it was the television series
for four years, and then from that point until the
movie two and in-between, we do all the product--all
the sing-alongs, the toys, the DVDs, the computer
games--you name it, we do it for the princesses."
-Jodi Benson
This Day in Disney History - THE FIRST - THE ORIGINAL
Traveling in time since 1999!
"Disneyland opened on the 17th. I went and worked
there on the 27th. I spent two and a half years in the
Jungle, as a Jungle Bunny and then I had the opportunity
to move around the park and work a lot of the different attractions." -William "Sully" Sullivan
2012:
no awards given
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2013: (inducted 8/10/13)
Tony Baxter - Imagineer; Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Journey Into Imagination, and Splash Mountain
Collin Campbell - Imagineer; Enchanted Tiki Room and Pirates of the Caribbean
Dick Clark - Television personality; host of American Bandstand and ABC’s annual Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve
Billy Crystal - Actor; voice of Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Inc. and Monsters University
John Goodman - Actor; voice ofJames P. Sullivan, better known as Sulley, from Monsters, Inc. and Monsters University
Steve Jobs - Visionary & advisor; founder of Apple and early investor and chief executive of Pixar
Glen Keane - Animator; The Rescuers, Pete’s Dragon, The Great Mouse Detective, Beauty and the Beast, and The Little Mermaid
Ed Wynn - Comedian/actor; Mary Poppins, Babes in Toyland, That Darn Cat, The Absent-Minded Professor,
and Alice in Wonderland
"It’s very easy to make something like the
Haunted Mansion look good on paper, but
if you don’t get it into three-dimensions
first, you may have a disaster. Well, my
job was to create the model to avert
disaster, which was fun, but a
challenge." -Fred Joerger
"I think that people have learned from Disney that in the end you don't win by going cheap." -Tony Baxter
2015: (inducted 8/14/15)
George Bodenheimer - Administration & Television; former president of ESPN Inc. and of ABC's sports division
Andreas Deja- Animation; The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Enchanted
Johnny Depp - Actor; Pirates of the Carribean
Eyvind Earle - Animation; Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, Lady and the Tramp
Danny Elfman - Music; The Nightmare Before Christmas
George Lucas - Film; Star Wars
Susan Lucci - Actress; All My Children
Julie Reihm Casaletto - Parks and Resorts; Disney's first ambassador
Carson Van Osten - Consumer Products; art director for Disney's comic strips department
2014:
no awards given
2017: (inducted 7/14/17)
Carrie Fisher - Actress; Star Wars
Clyde "Gerry" Geronimi- Animation; Cinderella, Peter Pan, One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Manuel Gonzalez - Artist; Mickey Mouse comicstrip
Mark Hamill - Actor; Star Wars
Wayne Jackson - Imagineer; Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion
Jack Kirby - Comic book artist; Captian America, Hulk, Thor
Stan Lee - Comic book publisher; Marvel
Garry Marshall - TV & Film director/producer; Pretty Woman, Princess Diaries
Julie Taymor - Theater director; The Lion King
Oprah Winfrey - Producer, Actress, Talk show host; The Princess and the Frog, A Wrinkle in Time
2016:
no awards given
2019: (inducted 8/23/19)
Christina Aguilera - Music & Television
Wing T. Chao - Parks & Resorts
Robert Downey Jr. - Film
James Earl Jones - Film
Jon Favreau - Film
Bette Midler - Film
Kenny Ortega - Film & Television
Barnette Ricci - Parks & Resorts
Robin Roberts - Television
Diane Sawyer - Television
Ming-Na Wen - Film, Television & Animation, Voice
Hans Zimmer - Music
2018:
no awards given
