2005 Marco Müller, Director of Rome Film Festival
2006 Gavrilo Grahovac, Minister of Culture and Sports of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
2006 Mike Leigh, director
2007 Steve Buscemi, actor
2008 Cat Villiers, producer
2009 Manfred Schmidt, executive director of Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
2010 Dieter Kosslick, director of Berlin International Film Festival
2011 Angelina Jolie, actress and director
2011 Jafar Panahi, director
2011 Emil Tedeschi, president and CEO of Atlantic Grupa
2012 Branko Lustig, producer
2013 Roberto Olla, executive Director of Eurimages
2013 Béla Tarr, director
2014 Gael García Bernal, actor
2014 Danis Tanović, director
2014 Agnès B., designer and filmmaker
2015 Atom Egoyan, director
2015 Benicio Del Toro, actor
2016 Robert De Niro, (Lifetime Achievement Award), actor
2016 Stephen Frears, director
2016 Wolfgang Amadeus Brülhart, former Deputy Chief of Mission and Cultural Counselor at the Embassy of Switzerland in Bosnia and Herzegovina
2017 John Cleese, actor
2017 Oliver Stone, director
2018 Nuri Bilge Ceylan, director
2018 Nijaz Hastor, the owner and founder of the ASA Prevent Group and founder of the Hastor Foundation
2019 Alejandro González Iñárritu, director
2019 Paweł Pawlikowski, director
2019 Isabelle Huppert, actress
2019 Tim Roth, actor
2020 Michel Franco, director
2020 Mads Mikkelsen, actor
2021 Wim Wenders, director, photographer
2022 Jesse Eisenberg, actor, director, playwright, and author
2022 Sergei Loznitsa, director, producer
2022 Ruben Östlund, director
2022 Paul Joseph Schrader, director, screenwriter
2023 Mark Cousins, director and writer
2023 Lynne Ramsay, director, screenwriter, and producer
2023 Charlie Kaufman, screenwriter, director, and producer
2024 Philippe Bober, producer, founder of Coproduction Office
2024 Christof Papousek, co-owner of Constantin Film-Holding, CFO and Managing Partner of Cineplexx International
2024 Alexander Payne, director, screenwriter, producer
2024 Meg Ryan, actress
2024 Elia Suleiman, director
2024 John Turturro, actor, screenwriter, director
2025 Willem Dafoe, actor
2025 Stellan Skarsgård, actor
2025 Paolo Sorrentino, director, screenwriter
2025 Ray Winstone, actor
