Kojima, who is director at Kojima Productions, most recently led development for the PS3-exclusive Metal Gear Solid 4, which is up for three GDC Awards, although it was squeezed out of the game of the year category.
Other Choice Award lifetime achievement honorees include Sid Meier, Shigeru Miyamoto, Richard Garriott, Eugene Jarvis, Mark Cerny, Gunpei Yokoi, Yuji Naka and Will Wright.
Organizers for March's Game Developers Conference, which holds the Choice Awards, said recently that Kojima will be presenting a GDC keynote for the first time. His presentation is titled, "Solid Game Design: Making the ‘Impossible’ Possible."
Other notable Kojima projects include Zone of the Enders, Boktai: The Sun in Your Hand, Snatcher and Policenauts, although the designer truly went high-profile with the 1998 PlayStation release, Metal Gear Solid.