Prêmio Kennedy

Honoroados de 2005: Julie Harris, Robert Redford, Tina Turner, Suzanne Farrell e Tony Bennett, junto com o casal Bush.

Honorados de 2009: Mel Brooks, Dave Brubeck, Grace Bumbry, Robert De Niro, e Bruce Springsteen, junto com o casal Obama.

O Prêmio Kennedy (em inglês: Kennedy Center Honors) é uma honraria estadunidense outorgada, desde 1978, pelo John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (ou curto: Kennedy Center) a cinco artistas de diferentes disciplinas a cada ano, por sua contribuição para as artes cênicas na cultura americana.

A cerimônia acontece em dezembro, no Kennedy Center em Washington com presença do presidente estadunidense.

Lista dos honorados

• 1978 — Marian Anderson, Fred Astaire, George Balanchine, Richard Rodgers, Arthur Rubinstein
• 1979 — Aaron Copland, Ella Fitzgerald, Henry Fonda, Martha Graham, Tennessee Williams
• 1980 — Leonard Bernstein, James Cagney, Agnes de Mille, Lynn Fontanne, Leontyne Price
• 1981 — Count Basie, Cary Grant, Helen Hayes, Jerome Robbins, Rudolf Serkin
• 1982 — George Abbott, Lillian Gish, Benny Goodman, Gene Kelly, Eugene Ormandy
• 1983 — Katherine Dunham, Elia Kazan, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, Virgil Thomson
• 1984 — Lena Horne, Danny Kaye, Gian Carlo Menotti, Arthur Miller, Isaac Stern
• 1985 — Merce Cunningham, Irene Dunne, Bob Hope, Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe, Beverly Sills
• 1986 — Lucille Ball, Hume Cronyn & Jessica Tandy, Yehudi Menuhin, Antony Tudor, Ray Charles
• 1987 — Perry Como, Bette Davis, Sammy Davis, Jr., Nathan Milstein, Alwin Nikolais
• 1988 — Alvin Ailey, George Burns, Myrna Loy, Alexander Schneider, Roger L. Stevens
• 1989 — Harry Belafonte, Claudette Colbert, Alexandra Danílova, Mary Martin, William Schuman
• 1990 — Dizzy Gillespie, Katharine Hepburn, Rise Stevens, Jule Styne, Billy Wilder
• 1991 — Roy Acuff, Betty Comden & Adolph Green, Fayard & Harold Nicholas, Gregory Peck, Robert Shaw
• 1992 — Lionel Hampton, Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward, Ginger Rogers, Mstislav Rostropóvich, Paul Taylor
• 1993 — Johnny Carson, Arthur Mitchell, Sir Georg Solti, Stephen Sondheim, Marion Williams
• 1994 — Kirk Douglas, Aretha Franklin, Morton Gould, Harold Prince, Pete Seeger
• 1995 — Jacques d'Amboise, Marilyn Horne, B.B. King, Sidney Poitier, Neil Simon
• 1996 — Edward Albee, Benny Carter, Johnny Cash, Jack Lemmon, Maria Tallchief
• 1997 — Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, Charlton Heston, Jessye Norman, Edward Villella
• 1998 — Bill Cosby, Fred Ebb & John Kander, Willie Nelson, André Previn, Shirley Temple Black
• 1999 — Victor Borge, Sean Connery, Judith Jamison, Jason Robards, Stevie Wonder
• 2000 — Mikhail Baryshnikov, Chuck Berry, Plácido Domingo, Clint Eastwood, Angela Lansbury
• 2001 — Julie Andrews, Van Cliburn, Quincy Jones, Jack Nicholson, Luciano Pavarotti
• 2002 — James Earl Jones, James Levine, Chita Rivera, Paul Simon, Elizabeth Taylor
• 2003 — James Brown, Carol Burnett, Loretta Lynn, Mike Nichols, Itzhak Perlman
• 2004 — Warren Beatty, Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee, Elton John, Joan Sutherland, John Williams
• 2005 — Tony Bennett, Suzanne Farrell, Julie Harris, Robert Redford, Tina Turner
• 2006 — Zubin Mehta, Dolly Parton, Smokey Robinson, Steven Spielberg, Andrew Lloyd Webber
• 2007 — Leon Fleisher, Steve Martin, Diana Ross, Martin Scorsese, Brian Wilson
• 2008 — Morgan Freeman, George Jones, Barbra Streisand, Twyla Tharp, Pete Townshend & Roger Daltrey
• 2009 — Mel Brooks, Dave Brubeck, Grace Bumbry, Robert De Niro, Bruce Springsteen
• 2010 — Merle Haggard, Jerry Herman, Bill T. Jones, Paul McCartney, Oprah Winfrey
• 2011 — Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Yo-Yo Ma, Sonny Rollins, Meryl Streep

Ligações externas

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