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Recipients of Kennedy Center Honors
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., created
its Honors awards in 1978 to recognize the lifetime achievements of
selected American performing artists.
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1978
- Marian Anderson, Fred Astaire, Richard Rodgers, Arthur Rubinstein,
George Balanchine
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1979
- Ella Fitzgerald, Henry Fonda, Martha Graham, Tennessee Williams,
Aaron Copland
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1980
- James Cagney, Leonard Bernstein, Agnes de Mille, Lynn Fontanne,
Leontyne Price
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1981
- Count Basie, Cary Grant, Helen Hayes, Jerome Robbins, Rudolf
Serkin
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1982
- George Abbott, Lillian Gish, Benny Goodman, Gene Kelly, Eugene
Ormandy
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1983
- Katherine Dunham, Elia Kazan, James Stewart, Virgil Thomson, Frank
Sinatra
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1984
- Lena Horne, Danny Kaye, Gian Carlo Menotti, Arthur Miller, Isaac
Stern
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1985
- Merce Cunningham, Irene Dunne, Bob Hope, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick
Loewe, Beverly Sills
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1986
- Lucille Ball, Ray Charles, Yehudi Menuhin, Antony Tudor, Hume Cronyn
and Jessica Tandy
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1987
- Perry Como, Bette Davis, Sammy Davis, Jr., Nathan Milstein, Alwin
Nikolais
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1988
- Alvin Ailey, George Burns, Myrna Loy, Alexander Schneider, Roger L.
Stevens
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1989
- Harry Belafonte, Claudette Colbert, Alexandra Danilova, Mary Martin,
William Schuman
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1990
- Dizzy Gillespie, Katharine Hepburn, Risë Stevens, Jule Styne, Billy
Wilder
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1991
- Roy Acuff, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, the brothers Fayard and
Harold Nicholas, Gregory Peck, Robert Shaw
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1992
- Lionel Hampton, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ginger Rogers,
Mstislav Rostropovich, Paul Taylor
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1993
- Johnny Carson, Arthur Mitchell, Georg Solti, Stephen Sondheim,
Marion Williams
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1994
- Kirk Douglas, Aretha Franklin, Morton Gould, Harold Prince, Pete
Seeger
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1995
- Jacques d'Amboise, Marilyn Horne, B. B. King, Sidney Poitier, Neil
Simon
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1996
- Edward Albee, Benny Carter, Johnny Cash, Jack Lemmon, Maria
Tallchief
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1997
- Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, Charlton Heston, Jessye Norman, Edward
Villella
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1998
- Bill Cosby, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Willie Nelson, André Previn,
Shirley Temple Black
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1999
- Victor Borge, Sean Connery, Judith Jamison, Jason Robards, Stevie
Wonder
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2000
- Mikhail Baryshnikov, Plácido Domingo, Angela Lansbury, Chuck Berry,
Clint Eastwood
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2001
- Julie Andrews, Van Cliburn, Quincy Jones, Jack Nicholson, Luciano
Pavarotti
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2002
- James Earl Jones, James Levine, Chita Rivera, Paul Simon, Elizabeth
Taylor
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2003
- James Brown, Carol Burnett, Loretta Lynn, Mike Nichols, Itzhak
Perlman
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2004
- Warren Beatty, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Elton John, Joan Sutherland,
John Williams
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2005
- Tony Bennett, Suzanne Farrell, Julie Harris, Robert Redford, Tina
Turner
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2006
- Zubin Mehta, Dolly Parton, William “Smokey” Robinson, Steven
Spielberg, Andrew Lloyd Webber
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2007
- Steve Martin, Diana Ross, Leon Fleisher, Martin Scorsese, Brian
Wilson
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