High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Young Artist Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award is an honorary Young Artist Award bestowed by the Young Artist Foundation to recognize former child actors and/or child singers for lifetime achievement within the motion picture, television and radio industries. In previous years, the award has also been occasionally known as the Youth in Film Mickey Rooney Award, in honor of former child star Mickey Rooney, however, the spirit of the award has remained essentially the same since its inception.