Nika Award for the Lifetime Achievement Award

The Nika Award for the Lifetime Achievement Award (Russian: Ника за «Честь и достоинство») is given annually by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Science and presented at the Nika Awards. The following are the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award since its inception in 1988.

In 2022, nominees were announced, but the Award ceremony was postponed and, eventually, cancelled.^[1]

The Award ceremony was also cancelled in 2023.^[2]

Year	Recipient		Profession	Ref(s)
1988		Yuli Raizman	Film director and screenwriter	[3]
1989		Leonid Trauberg	Film director and screenwriter	[3]

Year	Recipient		Profession	Ref(s)
1990	—	Yevgeny Gabrilovich	Screenwriter	[3]
1991		Nikolai Kryuchkov	Film actor	[3]
1992	—	Malik Qayumov	Documentary director of photography	[3]
1993	—	Iosif Kheifits	Film director and screenwriter	[3]
1994		Grigory Chukhray	Film director and screenwriter	[3]
1995		Tamara Makarova	Film actress	[3]
1996	—	Valeri Frid	Screenwriter	[3]
1997	—	Georgiy Zhzhonov	Film actor	[3]
1998		Marina Ladynina	Film actress	[3]
1999		Mikhail Gluzsky	Film actor	[3]

Year	Recipient		Profession	Ref(s)
2000	—	Mikhail Schweitzer	Film director and screenwriter	[3]
2001	—	Vyacheslav Tikhonov	Film actor	[3]
2002	—	Aleksey Batalov	Film actor and director	[3]
2003	—	Boris Vasilyev	Screenwriter	[3]
2004		Pyotr Todorovsky	Film director and screenwriter	[3]
2005		Nonna Mordyukova	Film actress	[3]
2006		Marlen Khutsiev	Film director and screenwriter	[3]
2007	—	Eldar Ryazanov	Film director and screenwriter	[3]
2008		Georgiy Daneliya	Film director and screenwriter	[3]
2009		Aleksei German	Film director and screenwriter	[3]

Year	Recipient		Profession	Ref(s)
2010	—	Lyudmila Gurchenko	Film actress	[3]
2011	—	Sergei Yursky	Film actor	[3]
2012	—	Oleg Basilashvili	Film actor	[3]
2013		Inna Churikova	Film actress	[3]
2013	—	Gleb Panfilov	Film director	[3]
2014	—	Vladimir Zeldin	Film actor	[3]
2015	—	Liya Akhedzhakova	Film actress	[3]
2016		Alisa Freindlich	Film actress	[3]
2017		Alexander Sokurov	Film director and screenwriter	[3]
2018		Vladimir Etush	Film actor	[3]
2019		Otar Iosseliani	Film director and screenwriter	[3]

Year	Recipient		Profession	Ref(s)
2021		Rustam Ibragimbekov	Screenwriter	[4]

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