On December 4, 2022, the Kennedy Center held their 45th annual Honors celebrating the lifetime artistic achievements of rockers U2, R&B star Gladys Knight, actor George Clooney, composer and conductor Tania Leon, and Christian music singer Amy Grant.
The gala event that saw numerous stars paying homage to the honourees, will be edited down to two hours for a television broadcast on December 28.
The Kennedy Center Honors awards its honourees for a lifetime of “extraordinary talents” and while there are some names missing from the list including Liza Minelli, and Denzel Washington; the list over the past 45 years is an impressive one…
Previous Kennedy Center Honors recipients:
Justino Diaz
Berry Gordy
Lorne Michaels
Bette Midler
Joni Mitchell
Debbie Allen
Joan Baez
Garth Brooks
Midori
Dick Van Dyke
Earth, Wind & Fire (musical group; Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson)
Sally Field
Linda Ronstadt
“Sesame Street”
Michael Tilson Thomas
Cher
Philip Glass
Reba McEntire
Wayne Shorter
“Hamilton” co-creators: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Andy Blankenbuehler, and Alex Lacamoire
Carmen de Lavallade
Gloria Estefan
LL COOL J
Norman Lear
Lionel Richie
Martha Argerich
Eagles
Al Pacino
Mavis Staples
James Taylor
Carole King
George Lucas
Rita Moreno
Seiji Ozawa
Cicely Tyson
Al Green
Tom Hanks
Patricia McBride
Sting
Lily Tomlin
Martina Arroyo
Herbie Hancock
Billy Joel
Shirley MacLaine
Carlos Santana
Buddy Guy
Dustin Hoffman
David Letterman
Natalia Makarova
Led Zeppelin
Barbara Cook
Neil Diamond
Yo-Yo Ma
Sonny Rollins
Meryl Streep
Merle Haggard
Jerry Herman
Bill T. Jones
Sir Paul McCartney
Oprah Winfrey
Mel Brooks
Dave Brubeck
Grace Bumbry
Robert De Niro
Bruce Springsteen
Morgan Freeman
George Jones
Barbra Streisand
Twyla Tharp
Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey of The Who
Steve Martin
Diana Ross
Leon Fleisher
Martin Scorsese
Brian Wilson
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Zubin Mehta
Dolly Parton
Smokey Robinson
Steven Spielberg
Tony Bennett
Suzanne Farrell
Julie Harris
Robert Redford
Tina Turner
Warren Beatty
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
Sir Elton John
Joan Sutherland
John Williams
James Brown
Carol Burnett
Loretta Lynn
Mike Nichols
Itzhak Perlman
James Earl Jones
James Levine
Chita Rivera
Paul Simon
Elizabeth Taylor
Julie Andrews
Van Cliburn
Quincy Jones
Jack Nicholson
Luciano Pavarotti
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Chuck Berry
Plácido Domingo
Clint Eastwood
Angela Lansbury
Victor Borge
Sean Connery
Judith Jamison
Jason Robards
Stevie Wonder
Fred Ebb & John Kander
Willie Nelson
André Previn
Shirley Temple Black
Lauren Bacall
Bob Dylan
Charlton Heston
Jessye Norman
Edward Villella
Edward Albee
Benny Carter
Johnny Cash
Jack Lemmon
Maria Tallchief
Jacques d’Amboise
Marilyn Horne
Riley B.B. King
Sidney Poitier
Neil Simon
Kirk Douglas
Aretha Franklin
Morton Gould
Harold Prince
Pete Seeger
Johnny Carson
Arthur Mitchell
Georg Solti
Stephen Sondheim
Marion Williams
Lionel Hampton
Paul Newman
Joanne Woodward
Ginger Rogers
Mstislav Rostropovich
Paul Taylor
Roy Acuff
Betty Comden
Adolph Green
Fayard Nicholas
Harold Nicholas
Gregory Peck
Robert Shaw
Dizzy Gillespie
Katharine Hepburn
Rise Stevens
Jule Styne
Billy Wilder
Harry Belafonte
Claudette Colbert
Alexandra Danilova
Mary Martin
William Schuman
Alvin Ailey
George Burns
Myrna Loy
Alexander Schneider
Roger L. Stevens
Perry Como
Bette Davis
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Nathan Milstein
Alwin Nikolais
Lucille Ball
Ray Charles
Hume Cronyn
Jessica Tandy
Yehudi Menuhin
Antony Tudor
Merce Cunningham
Irene Dunne
Bob Hope
Alan Jay Lerner
Frederick Loewe
Beverly Sills
Lena Horne
Danny Kaye
Gian Carlo Menotti
Arthur Miller
Isaac Stern
Katherine Dunham
Elia Kazan
Frank Sinatra
James Stewart
Virgil Thomson
George Abbott
Lillian Gish
Benny Goodman
Gene Kelly
Eugene Ormandy
Count Basie
Cary Grant
Helen Hayes
Jerome Robbins
Rudolf Serkin
Leonard Bernstein
James Cagney
Agnes deMille
Lynn Fontanne
Leontyne Price
Aaron Copland
Ella Fitzgerald
Henry Fonda
Martha Graham
Tennessee Williams
Marian Anderson
Fred Astaire
George Balanchine
Richard Rodgers
Arthur Rubinstein
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