Kennedy Prize
The Kennedy Prize ( English The Kennedy Center Honors ) has been given annually on the first weekend in December to several performing artists since 1977 by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC for their “extraordinary contributions to American culture with their life's work by their represented Arts " (engl. " for an extraordinary lifetime of contributions to American culture through the performing arts ") awarded. So far, no fewer than five and no more than eight individuals have been honored in each of the awards (see list of awardees below).
The honor includes several celebrations: a Saturday lunch at the Kennedy Center, an evening reception and dinner at the US State Department at the invitation of the US Secretary of State ; On Sunday afternoon there was a reception in the White House with the awarding of the medals on the ribbon by the US President , followed by the evening gala at the Opera House of the Kennedy Center, where the honorees followed the performances together with the US President from the Presidential Lodge.
The medal insignia is a ribbon in the seven colors of the rainbow , which is placed around the neck of the honored person roughly along the décolleté for women and around the lapel of men. With the colors of the rainbow, the spectrum of light , the designer of the award, the American illustrator Ivan Chermayeff , wanted to honor the broad spectrum of the artists' abilities in 1977. A total of three bronze clips are attached to the front left and right as well as at the bottom , on which the "Kennedy Center Honor" is engraved on the left, the name of the recipient on the bottom and the date of the award on the right (see pictures on the right). At the evening gala, in addition to the honorees, some winners from previous years also wear their medals.
In May 2018, the Kennedy Center revoked the award for Bill Cosby on allegations of sexual abuse against him.
Award winners
- 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 , Ray Charles , Hume Cronyn , Jessica Tandy , Yehudi Menuhin , Antony Tudor
- 1987: Perry Como , Bette Davis , Sammy Davis junior , Nathan Milstein , Alwin Nikolais
- 1988: Alvin Ailey , George Burns , Myrna Loy , Alexander Schneider , Roger L. Stevens
- 1989: Harry Belafonte , Claudette Colbert , Alexandra Danilowa , Mary Martin , William Schuman
- 1990: Dizzy Gillespie , Katharine Hepburn , Risë Stevens , Jule Styne , Billy Wilder
- 1991: Roy Acuff , Betty Comden , Adolph Green , Fayard Nicholas , Harold Nicholas , Gregory Peck , Robert Shaw
- 1992: Lionel Hampton , Paul Newman , Ginger Rogers , Mstislaw Rostropowitsch , Paul Taylor , Joanne Woodward
- 1993: Johnny Carson , Arthur Mitchell , Georg Solti , Stephen Sondheim , Marion Williams
- 1994: Kirk Douglas , Aretha Franklin , Morton Gould , Harold Prince , Pete Seeger
- 1995: Jacques d'Amboise , Marilyn Horne , BB 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 and John Kander , Willie Nelson , André Previn , Shirley Temple - 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 and 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
- 2012: Dustin Hoffman , David Letterman , Buddy Guy , Natalja Romanowna Makarowa , Led Zeppelin ( John Paul Jones , Robert Plant and Jimmy Page )
- 2013: Martina Arroyo , Herbie Hancock , Billy Joel , Shirley MacLaine , Carlos Santana
- 2014: Al Green , Tom Hanks , Patricia McBride , Sting , Lily Tomlin
- 2015: Carole King , George Lucas , Rita Moreno , Seiji Ozawa , Cicely Tyson
- 2016: Martha Argerich , Eagles ( Don Henley , Timothy B. Schmit , Joe Walsh and Glenn Frey ), Al Pacino , Mavis Staples and James Taylor
- 2017: Carmen de Lavallade , Gloria Estefan , LL Cool J , Norman Lear , Lionel Richie
- 2018: Cher , Reba McEntire , Philip Glass , Wayne Shorter ; as well as a one-time special prize: the four creators of the musical Hamilton ( Lin-Manuel Miranda , Thomas Kail, Alex Lacamoire, and Andy Blankenbuehler)
- 2019: Earth, Wind and Fire , Sally Field , Linda Ronstadt , Michael Tilson Thomas , the children's television show Sesame Street
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Seven performers receive Kennedy Center Honors , latimes.com, December 2, 2012
- ↑ Benny Carter, 95; Legendary saxophonist Also Was Composer-Arranger, Bandleader , latimes.com, July 14, 2003
- ^ Q&A: Ivan Chermayeff, Designer of the Kennedy Center Honors Medal , washingtonpost.com, December 7, 2008
- ↑ Kennedy Center rescinds Bill Cosby's Honors and awards Twain . In: The Washington Post , May 7, 2018. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
- ↑ Viagas, Robert. "Carole King, Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and More Named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees" playbill.com, July 15, 2015