12th Annual Webby Nominees [2008]:

Special Achievement Awards

* Webby Artist of the Year: will.i.am
* Webby Person of the Year: Stephen Colbert

webbyawards.com/webbys/specialachievement.php re each special achievement award winner, why being honored. no pages for past years ~ special achievement awards listed at top of each years nominees-winners page, but only current year has this link.

2007

• Webby Lifetime Achievement: eBay
• Webby Artist of the Year: Beastie Boys
• Webby Person of the Year: Steve Chen & Chad Hurley, Co-Founders, YouTube

2006

• Breakout of the Year: MySpace.com

2005

• Webby Person of the Year: Craig Newmark, founder of Craiglist.org
• Webby Lifetime Achievement: Former Vice-President Al Gore
• Breakout of the Year: Flickr

earlier years, 2004 back to 1997, do not have special achievement awards (at least not listed at top of nominees page)