A report on Kennedy Center Honors

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The 2006 honorees at the Kennedy Center on December 6, 2006, with President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush; from left, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Steven Spielberg, Dolly Parton, Zubin Mehta, Smokey Robinson, Vice President Dick Cheney and Second lady Lynne Cheney
2005 Kennedy Center Honorees Julie Harris, Robert Redford, Tina Turner, Suzanne Farrell and Tony Bennett with President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, in the Blue Room at the White House, December 4, 2005.
The surviving members of Led Zeppelin were honored in 2012 and are pictured here with President Barack Obama.
President Joe Biden giving a speech to the 2021 honorees Justino Díaz, Berry Gordy, Lorne Michaels, Bette Midler, and Joni Mitchell.
Kennedy Center honorees 2009 Mel Brooks, Dave Brubeck, Grace Bumbry, Robert De Niro, and Bruce Springsteen, with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in the Blue Room, White House, December 6, 2009.
The 2019 honorees Earth, Wind & Fire, Sally Field, Linda Ronstadt and Sesame Street with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

The Kennedy Center Honors are annual honors given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture.

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Bernstein in 1977, taken by Jack Mitchell

Leonard Bernstein

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American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian.

American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian.

Bernstein in 1977, taken by Jack Mitchell
Leonard Bernstein and Benny Goodman in rehearsal, ca. 1940–1949
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Photo of Bernstein by Carl Van Vechten (1944)
Bernstein conducting the New York City Symphony (1945)
Bernstein, c. 1950s
Bernstein with members of the New York Philharmonic rehearsing for a television broadcast
Bernstein at the piano, making annotations to a musical score
Leonard Bernstein during a visit to Finland, 1959
Bernstein in Amsterdam, 1968
Leonard Bernstein by Allan Warren
Bernstein with Maximilian Schell on PBS Beethoven TV series (1982)
Conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra, 1985
Bernstein's grave in Green-Wood Cemetery
Leonard Bernstein in rehearsal of his "Mass", 1971
Audio recording for CBS of the Symphony No. 3 by Danish composer Carl Nielsen in Copenhagen, 1965
Place Léonard-Bernstein, a square in the 12th arrondissement of Paris
Leonard Bernstein receiving the Edison Classical Music Award in 1968

Bernstein was the recipient of many honors, including seven Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, sixteen Grammy Awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Kennedy Center Honor.

Sinatra, c. 1957

Frank Sinatra

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American singer and actor.

American singer and actor.

Sinatra, c. 1957
Sinatra (far right) with the Hoboken Four on Major Bowes' Amateur Hour in 1935
Sinatra performing with Harry James at the Hollywood Canteen in 1943
Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey in Ship Ahoy (1942)
Sinatra with Alida Valli c. 1940s
Sinatra (left) on the Armed Forces Radio in 1944 with Dinah Shore and Bing Crosby (right)
Sinatra in November 1950
The Desert Inn, Las Vegas, where Sinatra began performing in 1951
Nelson Riddle, Sinatra's album arranger for Capitol Records
Sinatra in 1957 publicity shot
Sinatra recording at Capitol Studios, c. 1955
Sinatra in Pal Joey (1957)
Sinatra with Dean Martin and Judy Garland in 1962
Sinatra with Jill St. John in Tony Rome (1967)
Caesars Palace in 1970, where Sinatra performed from 1967 to 1970 and 1973 onwards
Sinatra with President Richard Nixon and Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti in 1973
Sinatra signed a $16million three-year deal with the Golden Nugget Las Vegas in 1982.
Brendan Grace and Sinatra in 1991
Sinatra with Axel Stordahl at the Liederkrantz Hall in New York, c. 1947
Sinatra and Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Sinatra with Grace Kelly on the set of High Society (1956)
Sinatra in Tony Rome (1967)
Sinatra on CBS Radio in 1944
Dean Martin with Frank Sinatra on The Dean Martin Show in 1958
Family portrait, 1949. Sinatra with (from left) Nancy, Tina, Nancy Barbato and Frank Jr.
Sinatra in 1955
Mobster Lucky Luciano
With Eleanor Roosevelt, 1947
Sinatra watching an IDF military parade during a visit to Israel, 1962
Sinatra, pictured here with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1960, was an ardent supporter of the Democratic Party until the early 1970s
Sinatra is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan in 1985
Sinatra's grave located at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California
Frank Sinatra Park on the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway, 4th of July, 2010
Sinatra, c. 1943
With Eleanor Roosevelt, 1947

He was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997.

Sondheim, c. 1976

Stephen Sondheim

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American composer, songwriter and lyricist.

American composer, songwriter and lyricist.

Sondheim, c. 1976
Oscar Hammerstein c. 1940
Stephen Sondheim's House, Turtle Bay, New York City, New York
Sondheim in New York, 1972
Stephen Sondheim (2014)

Sondheim's numerous accolades include eight Tony Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Tony in 2008), an Academy Award, eight Grammy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, a Pulitzer Prize, a Kennedy Center Honor, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Grant in 1941

Cary Grant

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English-American actor.

English-American actor.

Grant in 1941
Fairfield Grammar School, which Grant attended between 1915 and 1918
The New York Hippodrome where Grant performed
The Casino Theater on Broadway and 39th Street, where Grant appeared in Shubert's Boom-Boom
Grant in 1930
With Roland Young (right), Lili Damita (center), and Charlie Ruggles (far left) in his debut film This is the Night (1932)
Grant and Mae West in I'm No Angel (1933)
Lobby card for Ladies Should Listen (1934) with Frances Drake and Grant
Katharine Hepburn and Grant in Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Grant, Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy in His Girl Friday (1940)
With Joan Fontaine in Suspicion (1941)
Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Notorious (1946)
Dan Tobin and Grant in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Grant and Myrna Loy publicity photo for Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
Grant in 1956
Grant in the crop duster chase in North by Northwest (1959)
Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Charade (1963)
Grant at 69 in 1973
With friend Margaux Hemingway in 1976
Grant and Sophia Loren in Houseboat (1958)
Grant in 1955
Still for North by Northwest
Grant in 1958
Cary Grant statue by Graham Ibbeson (2001) in Millennium Square, Bristol

In 1970, he was presented with an Honorary Oscar by his friend Frank Sinatra at the 42nd Academy Awards, and he was accorded the Kennedy Center Honors in 1981.

Ronstadt in 1976

Linda Ronstadt

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Retired American singer who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, country, light opera, the Great American Songbook, and Latin.

Retired American singer who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, country, light opera, the Great American Songbook, and Latin.

Ronstadt in 1976
Ronstadt with producer Peter Asher and her band, 1976
Ronstadt on the cover of the February 28, 1977, issue of Time magazine
Ronstadt at the New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum, August 16, 1978
Linda Ronstadt at Six Flags Over Texas, August 1981.
Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris receiving honors from Berklee, 2009
Jerry Brown (pictured) had a high-profile relationship with Ronstadt when he was the governor of California in the late 1970s.

Ronstadt was among five honorees who received the 2019 Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements.

Spielberg in 2017

Steven Spielberg

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American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

Spielberg in 2017
Spielberg and Chandran Rutnam in Sri Lanka during the filming of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Spielberg, March 1990
Spielberg receiving the Golden Lion by Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo at the 50th Venice International Film Festival, 1993
Spielberg speaking at the Pentagon on August 11, 1999 after receiving the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service
Martin Scorsese, Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, and George Lucas
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Spielberg at his masterclass at the Cinémathèque Française in January 2012
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Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen escorts Spielberg through a military honor cordon into the Pentagon in 1999.
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Spielberg receiving a public service award presented by U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen, 1999
Spielberg's shoeprints and handprints in front of the Grauman's Chinese Theatre

Spielberg is the recipient of various accolades, including three Academy Awards (including two Best Director wins), a Kennedy Center honor, a Cecil B. DeMille Award, and an AFI Life Achievement Award.

Charles in the 1960s

Ray Charles

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American singer, songwriter and pianist.

American singer, songwriter and pianist.

Charles in the 1960s
Charles in 1968
Charles in 1971
Charles meeting with President Richard Nixon, 1972 (photo by Oliver F. Atkins)
Charles at the 2003 Montreal International Jazz Festival, one of his last public performances
Quincy Jones worked with Ray Charles.
Star honoring Charles on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6777 Hollywood Boulevard
Statue by Andy Davis in Ray Charles Plaza in Albany, Georgia

For his musical contributions, Charles received the Kennedy Center Honors, the National Medal of Arts, and the Polar Music Prize.

Townshend in 2012

Pete Townshend

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English musician.

English musician.

Townshend in 2012
Townshend (with Moon, rear right) backstage before a gig at Friedrich-Ebert-Halle in Ludwigshafen, Germany on 12 April 1967
Townshend's "windmill" technique
Townshend performing in Hamburg, Germany in August 1972
Townshend in concert, 2008
Townshend leaping into air in concert
Townshend playing a Fender Eric Clapton Signature Stratocaster
Townshend performing in Austin, Texas, as a supporting guest of friend and former Small Faces/Faces musician, Ian McLagan in 2007

In 2001, he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as a member of the Who; and in 2008 he received Kennedy Center Honors.

Robbins at a photo shoot in 1968

Jerome Robbins

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American dancer, choreographer, film director, theatre director and producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film, and television.

American dancer, choreographer, film director, theatre director and producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film, and television.

Robbins at a photo shoot in 1968
Robbins in Three Virgins and a Devil, 1941
Robbins in 1951
The Fleet's In!, painted by Paul Cadmus, 1934, the inspiration for the ballet, Fancy Free (1944)

Robbins was a five-time Tony Award-winner and a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors.

Miranda in 2018

Lin-Manuel Miranda

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American actor, rapper, songwriter, playwright and filmmaker.

American actor, rapper, songwriter, playwright and filmmaker.

Miranda in 2018
Miranda in 2018
Miranda in Hamilton, 2016
Miranda (right) with his family upon receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2018. Nadal is in the center.

His accolades include three Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, an Annie Award, a MacArthur Fellowship Award, a Kennedy Center Honor, and a Pulitzer Prize.