Kennedy Center Onur Ödülleri

Kennedy Center Onur Ödülleri, Sahne Sanatları ve  Amerikan kültürüne yaşam boyu katkıları için verilen ve yıllık düzenlenen ödül törenidir. 1978'den beri her Aralık ayında Kennedy Center Opera Binası'nda gerçekleşir.

Ödül sahipleri

1970 
 1978 — Marian Anderson, Fred Astaire, George Balanchine, Richard Rodgers ve Arthur Rubinstein
 1979 — Aaron Copland, Ella Fitzgerald, Henry Fonda, Martha Grahamve Tennessee Williams

1980 
 1980 — Leonard Bernstein, James Cagney, Agnes de Mille, Lynn Fontanne ve Leontyne Price
 1981 — Count Basie, Cary Grant, Helen Hayes, Jerome Robbins ve Rudolf Serkin
 1982 — George Abbott, Lillian Gish, Benny Goodman, Gene Kelly ve Eugene Ormandy
 1983 — Katherine Dunham, Elia Kazan, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, ve Virgil Thomson
 1984 — Lena Horne, Danny Kaye, Gian Carlo Menotti, Arthur Millerve Isaac Stern
 1985 — Merce Cunningham, Irene Dunne, Bob Hope, Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe ve Beverly Sills
 1986 — Lucille Ball, Ray Charles, Hume Cronyn & Jessica Tandy, Yehudi Menuhin ve Antony Tudor
 1987 — Perry Como, Bette Davis, Sammy Davis, Jr., Nathan Milstein ve Alwin Nikolais
 1988 — Alvin Ailey, George Burns, Myrna Loy, Alexander Schneiderve Roger L. Stevens
 1989 — Harry Belafonte, Claudette Colbert, Alexandra Danilova, Mary Martin ve William Schuman

1990 
 1990 — Dizzy Gillespie, Katharine Hepburn, Risë Stevens, Jule Styne ve Billy Wilder
 1991 — Roy Acuff, Betty Comden & Adolph Green, Fayard & Harold Nicholas, Gregory Peck ve Robert Shaw
 1992 — Lionel Hampton, Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward, Ginger Rogers, Mstislav Rostropoviç ve Paul Taylor
 1993 — Johnny Carson, Arthur Mitchell, Georg Solti, Stephen Sondheim ve Marion Williams
 1994 — Kirk Douglas, Aretha Franklin, Morton Gould, Harold Prince ve Pete Seeger
 1995 — Jacques d'amboise, Marilyn Horne, B. B. King, Sidney Poitierve Neil Simon
 1996 — Edward Albee, Benny Carter, Johnny Cash, Jack Lemmonve Maria Tallchief
 1997 — Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, Charlton Heston, Jessye Normanve Edward Villella
 1998 — Bill Cosby, Fred Ebb & John Kander, Willie Nelson, André Previnve Shirley Temple Black
 1999 — Victor Borge, Sean Connery, Judith Jamison, Jason Robardsve Stevie Wonder

2000'li yıllarda 
 2000 — Mikhail Baryshnikov, Chuck Berry, Plácido Domingo, Clint Eastwood, ve Angela Lansbury
 2001 — Julie Andrews, Van Cliburn, Quincy Jones, Jack Nicholson ve Luciano Pavarotti
 2002 — James Earl Jones, James Levine, Chita Rivera, Paul Simon ve Elizabeth Taylor
 2003 — James Brown, Carol Burnett, Loretta Lynn, Mike Nichols ve Itzhak Perlman
 2004 — Warren Beatty, Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee, Elton John, Joan Sutherland ve John Williams
 2005 — Tony Bennett, Suzanne Farrell, Julie Harris, Robert Redfordve Tina Turner
 2006 — Zubin Mehta, Dolly Parton, Smokey Robinson, Steven Spielberg ve Andrew Lloyd Webber
 2007 — Leon Fleisher, Steve Martin, Diana Ross, Martin Scorsese ve Brian Wilson
 2008 — Morgan Freeman, George Jones, Barbra Streisand, Twyla Tharp, ve The Who (Pete Townshend ve Roger Daltrey)
 2009 — Mel Brooks, Dave Brubeck, Grace Bumbry, Robert De Niro, Bruce Springsteen

2010 
 2010 — Merle Haggard, Jerry Herman, Bill T. Jones, Paul McCartney, ve Oprah Winfrey
 2011 — Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Yo-Yo Ma, Sonny Rollinsve Meryl Streep
 2012 — Buddy Guy, Dustin Hoffman, Led Zeppelin (John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page ve Robert Plant, David Letterman, Natalia Makarova
 2013 — Martina Arroyo, Herbie Hancock, Billy Joel, Shirley MacLaine ve Carlos Santana
 2014 — Al Green, Tom Hanks, Patricia McBride, Sting, ve Lily Tomlin
 2015 — Carole King, George Lucas, Rita Moreno, Seiji Ozawa ve Cicely Tyson
 2016 — Martha Argerich, Eagles (Don Henley, Timothy B. Schmit ve Joe Walshile Glenn Frey), Al Pacino, Mavis Staples, James Taylor

Kaynakça 

1978'de oluşturulan ödüller
Washington, DC'de kültür
Yaşam boyu başarı ödülleri