2025 Eva Victor Actor/Writer/Director (Sorry, Baby)

2025 Rose Byrne Actress/Producer (If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You) Co-Founder, Dollhouse Pictures

2024 Payal Kapadia Director/Screenwriter (All We Imagine As Light)

2024 Rachel Morrison Director/Producer/Cinematographer (The Fire Inside)

2023 Dr. Jimmeka Anderson Film Educator/Cultural Changemaker Co-founder, Black Girls Film Camp

2023 Emerald Fennell Director/Screenwriter/Actress (Saltburn)

2023 Ava DuVernay Producer/Director/Screenwriter (Origin)

2023 Lynn Hershman-Leeson New Media Pioneer/Artist/Filmmaker (Cyborgian Rhapsody—Immortality)

2022 Chinonye Chukwu Director/Screenwriter (Till)

2022 Danielle Deadwyler Actress (Till)

2022 Pratibha Parmar Director/Writer/Producer (My Name Is Andrea) Founder, Kali Films

2022 Ensemble Award Director/Screenwriter Sarah Polley and Cast (Women Talking) Award accepted by Frances McDormand

2021 Nina Yang Bongiovi Producer (Passing)

2021 Jane Campion Director/Screenwriter/Producer (The Power of the Dog)

2020 Viola Davis Actress/Producer (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) Co-founder, JuVee Productions

2020 Dawn Porter Producer/Director/Writer (The Way I See It; John Lewis: Good Trouble)

2019 Laura Dern Actress (Marriage Story)

2019 Céline Sciamma Director/Screenwriter (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)

2019 Anna Serner CEO, Swedish Film Institute; Initiator, 5050×2020

2019 Betty Reid Soskin National Park Service Ranger (No Time to Waste) 

2018 Maggie Gyllenhaal Actress/Producer (The Kindergarten Teacher) Co-founder, Nine Stories Productions

2018 Carey Mulligan Actress (Wildlife, Suffragette)

2018 Andrea Riseborough Actress/Producer (Nancy) Founder, Mother Sucker

2018 Dr Stacy L. Smith Academic/Activist; Founder, USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative

2017 Angela Robinson Director/Screenwriter/Producer (Professor Marston & the Wonder Women)