I Kennedy Center Honors (conosciuti in Italia anche come Premio Kennedy) sono dei premi annuali statunitensi conferiti a coloro che si sono distinti per il loro contributo all'arte e alla cultura.
Storia La cerimonia si tiene dal 1978 a Washington, presso il Kennedy Center. I premi sono assegnati dal direttivo del Kennedy Center.
I premi sono stati ideati dal produttore cinematografico George Stevens Jr.
Dal 1981 al 2002 e poi nel 2004 la cerimonia è stata condotta da Walter Cronkite. Nel 2003 e nel periodo 2005-2012 è stata invece condotta da Caroline Kennedy.
Vincitori
Anni 1970 1978: Marian Anderson, Fred Astaire, George Balanchine, Richard Rodgers e Arthur Rubinstein 1979: Aaron Copland, Ella Fitzgerald, Henry Fonda, Martha Graham e Tennessee Williams
Anni 1980 1980: Leonard Bernstein, James Cagney, Agnes de Mille, Lynn Fontanne e Leontyne Price 1981: Count Basie, Cary Grant, Helen Hayes, Jerome Robbins e Rudolf Serkin 1982: George Abbott, Lillian Gish, Benny Goodman, Gene Kelly e Eugene Ormandy 1983: Katherine Dunham, Elia Kazan, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart e Virgil Thomson 1984: Lena Horne, Danny Kaye, Gian Carlo Menotti, Arthur Miller e Isaac Stern 1985: Merce Cunningham, Irene Dunne, Bob Hope, Alan Jay Lerner e Frederick Loewe e Beverly Sills 1986: Lucille Ball, Ray Charles, Hume Cronyn e Jessica Tandy, Yehudi Menuhin e Antony Tudor 1987: Perry Como, Bette Davis, Sammy Davis Jr., Nathan Milstein e Alwin Nikolais 1988: Alvin Ailey, George Burns, Myrna Loy, Alexander Schneider e Roger L. Stevens 1989: Harry Belafonte, Claudette Colbert, Alexandra Danilova, Mary Martin e William Schuman
Anni 1990 1990: Dizzy Gillespie, Katharine Hepburn, Risë Stevens, Jule Styne e Billy Wilder 1991: Roy Acuff, Betty Comden e Adolph Green, Fayard e Harold Nicholas, Gregory Peck e Robert Shaw 1992: Lionel Hampton, Paul Newman e Joanne Woodward, Ginger Rogers, Mstislav Rostropovich e Paul Taylor 1993: Johnny Carson, Arthur Mitchell, Georg Solti, Stephen Sondheim e Marion Williams 1994: Kirk Douglas, Aretha Franklin, Morton Gould, Harold Prince e Pete Seeger 1995: Jacques d'Amboise, Marilyn Horne, B.B. King, Sidney Poitier e Neil Simon 1996: Edward Albee, Benny Carter, Johnny Cash, Jack Lemmon e Maria Tallchief 1997: Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, Charlton Heston, Jessye Norman e Edward Villella 1998: Bill Cosby, Fred Ebb e John Kander, Willie Nelson, André Previn e Shirley Temple Black 1999: Victor Borge, Sean Connery, Judith Jamison, Jason Robards e Stevie Wonder
Anni 2000
2000: Michail Baryšnikov, Chuck Berry, Plácido Domingo, Clint Eastwood e Angela Lansbury 2001: Julie Andrews, Van Cliburn, Quincy Jones, Jack Nicholson e Luciano Pavarotti 2002: James Earl Jones, James Levine, Chita Rivera, Paul Simon e Elizabeth Taylor 2003: James Brown, Carol Burnett, Loretta Lynn, Mike Nichols e Itzhak Perlman 2004: Warren Beatty, Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee, Elton John, Joan Sutherland e John Williams 2005: Tony Bennett, Suzanne Farrell, Julie Harris, Robert Redford e Tina Turner 2006: Zubin Mehta, Dolly Parton, Smokey Robinson, Steven Spielberg e Andrew Lloyd Webber 2007: Leon Fleisher, Steve Martin, Diana Ross, Martin Scorsese e Brian Wilson 2008: Morgan Freeman, George Jones, Barbra Streisand, Twyla Tharp e The Who (Pete Townshend & Roger Daltrey) 2009: Mel Brooks, Dave Brubeck, Grace Bumbry, Robert De Niro e Bruce Springsteen
Anni 2010 2010: Merle Haggard, Jerry Herman, Bill T. Jones, Paul McCartney e Oprah Winfrey 2011: Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Yo-Yo Ma, Sonny Rollins e Meryl Streep"Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Yo-Yo Ma, Sonny Rollins & Meryl Streep to Receive 34th Annual Kennedy Center Honors" kennedy-center.org 2012: Buddy Guy, Dustin Hoffman, Led Zeppelin (John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page e Robert Plant), David Letterman e Natalija MakarovaGans, Andrew. "Dustin Hoffman, David Letterman, Natalia Makarova, Buddy Guy, Led Zeppelin Are Kennedy Center Honorees" playbill.com, 2012 2013: Martina Arroyo, Herbie Hancock, Billy Joel, Shirley MacLaine e Carlos SantanaGans, Andrew. "Martina Arroyo, Herbie Hancock, Billy Joel, Shirley MacLaine and Carlos Santana Are 2013 Kennedy Center Honorees" playbill.com, 2013 2014: Al Green, Tom Hanks, Patricia McBride, Sting e Lily Tomlin 2015: Carole King, George Lucas, Rita Moreno, Seiji Ozawa, Cicely Tyson 2016: Martha Argerich, Eagles (Don Henley, Timothy B. Schmit, Joe Walsh e Glenn Frey), Al Pacino, Mavis Staples, James Taylor 2017: Carmen de Lavallade, Gloria Estefan, LL Cool J, Norman Lear, Lionel Richie 2018: Cher, Philip Glass, Reba McEntire, Wayne Shorter, e i creatori di Hamilton: An American Musical (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Alex Lacamoire, e Andy Blankenbuehler) 2019: Earth, Wind & Fire, Sally Field, Linda Ronstadt, Sesame Street e Michael Tilson Thomas
Anni 2020 2020: Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Allen, Joan Baez, Garth Brooks, Midori 2021: Justino Díaz, Berry Gordy, Lorne Michaels, Bette Midler, Joni Mitchell 2022: George Clooney, Amy Grant, Gladys Knight, Tania León, e U2 (Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton e Larry Mullen Jr.) 2023: Billy Crystal, Renée Fleming, Barry Gibb, Queen Latifah e Dionne Warwick 2024: Francis Ford Coppola, Grateful Dead (Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh e Bob Weir), Bonnie Raitt, Arturo Sandoval e l'Apollo Theater 2025: Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor, Michael Crawford, George Strait, Liza Minelli e i Kiss (Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley e Peter Criss).
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