Achievement Honorees
| Year | Visual Arts | Performing Arts | Literary Arts | Special Award |
| 2019 | Dorothea Rockburne | Barry Sonnenfeld | Salman Rushdie | Ted Hartley |
| 2018 | Alice Aycock | Carter Burwell | Bob Colacello | Patti Askwith Kenner |
| 2017 | Audrey Flack | Harris Yulin | Gail Sheehy* | Sheri Sandler |
| 2016 | Edwina von Gal | Susan Stroman | Philip Schultz | Cheryl & Michael Minikes |
| 2015 | Mary Heilmann | Sarah Jessica Parker | A.M. Homes | Charlotte Moss & Barry S. Friedberg |
| 2014 | Ralph Gibson | Matthew Broderick | Jules Feiffer | Linda & Harry Macklowe |
| 2013 | Philippe de Montebello | Blythe Danner | Barbara Walters | Jo Carole & Ronald S. Lauder |
| 2012 | John Alexander | Nathan Lane | Walter Isaacson | Mickey Straus* |
| 2011 | Bruce Weber | Laurie Anderson | Jon Robin Baitz | Dina Merrill* |
| 2010 | Elizabeth Peyton | Dick Cavett | Marshall Brickman | Lewis B. Cullman* |
| 2009 | Richard Prince | Bob Balaban | Marsha Norman | Susan & Alan Patricof |
| 2008 | Jennifer Bartlett* | Candice Bergen | Ken Auletta | Donald Zucker |
| 2007 | David Salle | Mel Brooks | Joe Pintauro* | Robert F. X. Sillerman* |
| 2006 | John Chamberlain* | Mercedes Ruehl | Paul Goldberger | Roy Furman |
| 2005 | Stephen A. Schwarzman | |||
| 2004 | Cindy Sherman | Sheldon Harnick | Louis Begley | Marshall Rose |
| 2003 | Jack Youngerman* | Alec Baldwin | Ben Bradlee* | Mortimer B. Zuckerman |
| 2002 | April Gornik | Robert Wilson | Budd Schulberg* | Don Hewitt* |
| 2001 | Jane Wilson* | Elaine Stritch* | George Plimpton* | Joan Ganz Cooney |
| 2000 | Ross Bleckner | Cy Coleman* | Lanford Wilson* | Jason Epstein |
| 1999 | Robert A.M. Stern | Gwen Verdon* | Barbara Goldsmith* | Joseph F. Cullman 3rd* |
| 1998 | Julian Schnabel | Steven Spielberg | Betty Friedan* | Peter Jennings* |
| 1997 | William King* | Billy Joel | Wendy Wasserstein* | Jack Lenor Larsen* |
| 1996 | Jane Freilicher* | Alan J. Pakula* | Peter Stone* | |
| 1995 | Chuck Close* | Robert Benton | Robert Hughes* | |
| 1994 | Eric Fischl | Gene Saks* | William Gaddis* | |
| 1993 | Esteban Vicente* | Lukas Foss* | Terrence McNally* | |
| 1992 | Tony Walton | Betty Comden* | Robert Caro | |
| Adolph Green* | ||||
| Anne Jackson* | ||||
| Eli Wallach* | ||||
| 1991 | Richard Meier | Frank Perry* | Edward Albee* | |
| 1990 | Paul Davis | Lauren Bacall* | John Irving | |
| 1989 | Charles Gwathmey* | Paul Simon | Peter Matthiessen* | |
| 1988 | Larry Rivers* | Itzhak Perlman | Tom Wolfe* | |
| 1987 | Roy Lichtenstein* | Jerome Robbins* | Joseph Heller* | |
| 1986 | Saul Steinberg* | Sidney Lumet* | E.L. Doctorow* | |
| 1985 | Willem de Kooning* | Alan Alda | Kurt Vonnegut* |
* In Memoriam