41.   Past recipients include Dennis Hopper, James Coburn, Ben Johnson, Louis Gossett Jr. and Anjelica Huston.

42.   Past recipients include Elvis Presley, Ella Fitzgerald and Michael Jackson.

43.   Past recipients include former President Jimmy Carter and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

44.   Past recipients include Jack Warner, Bob Hope, Irving Berlin, Sherry Lansing, Bob Daly and Terry Semel.

45.   Past recipients include Paul Newman, John Travolta, Robert DeNiro, Julia Roberts and Goldie Hawn.

46.   Past recipients include Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.

47.   Past recipients included Johnny Carson, Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Rodney Dangerfield and George Burns.

48.   Past recipients of the public policy award include former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop.

49.   Clinton also mentioned the still-unresolved U.S. presidential election when he recognized Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a past recipient of the human rights award.

50.   Past recipients include Frances McDormand, Kevin Kline, Christopher Walken, Sigourney Weaver, Harvey Keitel, Susan Sarandon and John Turturro.