1995 – Licia Colò
Licia Colò is an Italian TV hostess and journalist. She has been working exclusively for RAI since 1996, hosting documentary-based shows Geo & Geo, King Kong and Il Pianeta delle Meraviglie. Starting in 2001, she has hosted Alle Falde del Kilimangiaro, dedicated to travel documentaries, on RAI 3. Colò has also written several books documenting her travel experiences.
1995 – Lina Wertmüller
Lina Wertmüller is an Italian screenwriter and film director. She was the first woman nominated for an Academy Award for Directing for Seven Beauties. She is also known for her films The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy and Swept Away.
2006 – Elliott Erwitt
Elliott Erwitt was an American advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings – a master of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “decisive moment”.
2006 – Michael Montgomery
Michael Montgomery is an English writer and journalist.
2006 – Le Iene, Enrico Lucci
Le Iene is a television program broadcast on the Italian channel Italia 1. Beginning in 1997, it is a comedy/satirical show, with sketches and reports into political affairs and consumer issues. It is based on an Argentine show Caiga Quien Caiga.
2011 – Dacia Maraini
Dacia Maraini is an Italian writer. Maraini’s work focuses on women’s issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels. She has won awards for her work, including the Formentor Prize for L’Età del Malessere (1963); the Premio Fregene for Isolina (1985); the Premio Campiello and Book of the Year Award for La Lunga Vita di Marianna Ucrìa (1990); and the Premio Strega for Buio (1999). In 2013, the documentary I Was Born Travelling about her life portrayed the story of her imprisonment in a concentration camp in Japan, to the legendary journeys around the world with her partner Alberto Moravia, her close friend Pier Paolo Pasolini and opera singer Maria Callas.
2015 – Nigel Marven
Nigel Marven is a British wildlife TV presenter, television producer, author and birdwatcher.
2016/2017 – Frank Cuesta
Francisco Javier Cuesta Ramos, better known as Frank Cuesta, is a Spanish adventurer, television presenter and tennis coach, who currently lives in Bangkok, Thailand for over 20 years. For the past 15 years Frank Cuesta has been fighting illegal animal trafficking and animal abuse in the southeast Asia. In 2012, after being infiltrated into Bear farms in Vietnam as a vet, he showed to the world, the dramatic images of how bears were abused daily, to get their bile for traditional alternative medicines and other curatives with no scientifically proven value. This report then pushed the Vietnamese Government to make an official statement where they promised to abort these activities. He presented his first TV Show ‘Frank de la jungla’ which was broadcast on Cuatro from 2010 to 2013. It received the Premio Ondas award on 8 November 2011 in the national TV category. The show brought him international fame along with the spin-off shows called ‘La Selva en Casa’ and ‘Natural Frank’. In March 2013, Cuesta signed a contract with Discovery International in order to make the TV show ‘Wild Frank’ which has been broadcast in more than 100 countries.