became the first individual to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades of work in
children's programming in December 2022. British broadcaster
David Frost, who conducted the
interviews with former President Richard Nixon that received dramatization in the 2008 Oscar-nominated film
Frost/Nixon, received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy at the
International Emmys in 2009. Entertainment figures who have received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy at the Daytime Emmys include
Judy Sheindlin, the central figure of
Judge Judy, and
John Clarke, a veteran film and television actor best known for starring on
Days of Our Lives for thirty-seven years. Receiving the award in 1997, performer
Fred Rogers of programs decided to children such as ''
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' delivered one of the most notable moments in an Emmy acceptance speech during the
24th Daytime Emmy Awards, successfully commanding the audience to give a
moment of silence of commemorative thankfulness. Rogers got a
standing ovation before his comments, in which he told the crowd "may God be with you". In 2020, sports reporter
Lesley Visser became the first woman to be awarded the Sports Lifetime Achievement Award, for her pioneering work in the generally male-dominated industry of
sports television. "To be a pioneer at nearly every juncture... isn’t easy despite how Lesley Visser makes it look," Justine Gubar, the Executive Director of the Sports Emmy Awards, publicly remarked, while adding that Visser had become an "unparalleled role model and mentor to countless up-and-coming journalists". In 2022, actor
LeVar Burton became the first person to be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on
children's television. He will be presented with his award at the inaugural
Children's and Family Emmy Awards on December 11, 2022. Burton's efforts to promote
literacy in the United States has taken over two decades and involved multiple productions such as the television series
Reading Rainbow; the performer has not only read books to young people but also explained current events to them and otherwise worked to educate them. ==See also==