miniatura|250px|Distinguidos de 2005: Julie Harris, Robert Redford, Tina Turner, Suzanne Farrell e Tony Bennett, junto com o casal Bush. miniatura|250px|Distinguidos de 2009: Mel Brooks, Dave Brubeck, Grace Bumbry, Robert De Niro, e Bruce Springsteen, junto com o casal Obama.
O Prêmio Kennedy () é uma honraria estadunidense outorgada desde 1978 pelo John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts a cinco artistas de diferentes categorias a cada ano, por sua contribuição para as artes cênicas na cultura americana.About the Honors from the Kennedy Center website
A cerimônia de premiação acontece em dezembro, no Kennedy Center, em Washington DC com a presença do Presidente dos Estados Unidos.
Lista dos honorificados 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 e Frederick Loewe, Beverly Sills 1986 — Lucille Ball, Hume Cronyn e 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 e Adolph Green, Fayard e Harold Nicholas, Gregory Peck, Robert Shaw 1992 — Lionel Hampton, Paul Newman e Joanne Woodward, Ginger Rogers, Mstislav Rostropovich, 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 e 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 e 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"Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Yo-Yo Ma, Sonny Rollins & Meryl Streep to Receive 34th Annual Kennedy Center Honors" kennedy-center.org, accessado em 12 de setembro de 2011 2012 — Buddy Guy, Dustin Hoffman, Led Zeppelin (John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page e Robert Plant), David Letterman e Natalia MakarovaGans, Andrew. "Dustin Hoffman, David Letterman, Natalia Makarova, Buddy Guy, Led Zeppelin Are Kennedy Center Honorees" playbill.com, September 12, 2012 2013 — Martina Arroyo, Herbie Hancock, Billy Joel, Shirley MacLaine e Carlos SantanaGans, Andrew. "Martina Arroyo, Herbie Hancock, Billy Joel, Shirley MacLaine and Carlos Santana Are 2013 Kennedy Center Honorees" playbill.com, September 12, 2013 2014 — Al Green, Tom Hanks, Patricia McBride, Sting e Lily Tomlin 2015 — Carole King, George Lucas, Rita Moreno, Seiji Ozawa e Cicely Tyson 2016 — Eagles (Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Timothy B. Schmit e Joe Walsh), Martha Argerich, Al Pacino, Mavis Staples e James Taylor 2017 — Lionel Richie, Gloria Estefan, Carmen de Lavallade, LL Cool J e Norman Lear 2018 — Cher, Reba McEntire, Phillip Glass, Wayne Shorter 2019 — Earth, Wind & Fire, Sally Field, Linda Ronstadt, Sesame Street e Michael Tilson Thomas 2020 — Dick Van Dyke, Midori, Joan Baez, Debbie Allen e Garth Brooks 2021 — Justino Díaz, Berry Gordy, Lorne Michaels, Bette Midler e Joni Mitchell 2022 — George Clooney, Amy Grant, Gladys Knight, Tania León e U2 2023 — Billy Crystal, Renée Fleming, Barry Gibb, Queen Latifah e Dionne Warwick 2024 — Francis Ford Coppola, Grateful Dead, Bonnie Raitt, Arturo Sandoval e Teatro Apollo 2025 — George Strait, Kiss, Michael Crawford, Gloria Gaynor e Sylvester Stallone
Ligações externas
Categoria:Prémios de arte Categoria:Prêmios dos Estados Unidos Categoria:John F. Kennedy