1996: Jack Williamson; A. E. van Vogt; John W. Campbell, Jr.; Hugo Gernsback 1997: Andre Norton; Arthur C. Clarke; H. G. Wells; Isaac Asimov 1998: Hal Clement; Frederik Pohl; C. L. Moore; Robert A. Heinlein 1999: Ray Bradbury; Robert Silverberg; Jules Verne; Abraham Merritt 2000: Poul Anderson; Gordon R. Dickson; Theodore Sturgeon; Eric Frank Russell 2001: Jack Vance; Ursula K. Le Guin; Alfred Bester; Fritz Leiber 2002: Samuel R. Delany; Michael Moorcock; James Blish; Donald A. Wollheim 2003: Wilson Tucker; Kate Wilhelm; Damon Knight; Edgar Rice Burroughs 2004: Brian Aldiss; Harry Harrison; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; E. E. "Doc" Smith 2005: Steven Spielberg; Philip K. Dick; Chesley Bonestell; Ray Harryhausen[11] 2006: George Lucas; Frank Herbert; Frank Kelly Freas; Anne McCaffrey[12] 2007: Ed Emshwiller; Gene Roddenberry; Ridley Scott; Gene Wolfe[13] 2008: Ian Ballantine and Betty Ballantine; William Gibson; Richard M. Powers; Rod Serling[14] 2009: Edward L. Ferman; Michael Whelan; Frank R. Paul; Connie Willis[18] 2010: Octavia E. Butler; Richard Matheson; Douglas Trumbull; Roger Zelazny[19] 2011: Vincent Di Fate; Gardner Dozois; Harlan Ellison; Jean Giraud[20] 2012: Joe Haldeman; James Tiptree, Jr.; James Cameron; Virgil Finlay[7] 2013: H. R. Giger; Judith Merril; Joanna Russ; David Bowie; J. R. R. Tolkien[16] 2014: Frank Frazetta; Hayao Miyazaki; Leigh Brackett; Olaf Stapledon; Stanley Kubrick[15] 2015: James E. Gunn; Georges Méliès; John Schoenherr; Kurt Vonnegut; Jack Gaughan[21]