Prêmio Kennedy

O Prêmio Kennedy (em inglês: Kennedy Center Honors) 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.^[1]

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 & 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 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 & 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^[2]
2012 — Buddy Guy, Dustin Hoffman, Led Zeppelin (John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page e Robert Plant), David Letterman e Natalia Makarova^[3]
2013 — Martina Arroyo, Herbie Hancock, Billy Joel, Shirley MacLaine and Carlos Santana^[4]
2014 — Al Green, Tom Hanks, Patricia McBride, Sting e Lily Tomlin^[5]
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

Referências

↑ About the Honors Arquivado em 16 de maio de 2008, no Wayback Machine. from the Kennedy Center website
↑ "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
↑ Gans, Andrew. "Dustin Hoffman, David Letterman, Natalia Makarova, Buddy Guy, Led Zeppelin Are Kennedy Center Honorees" Arquivado em 9 de novembro de 2012, no Wayback Machine. playbill.com, September 12, 2012
↑ Gans, Andrew. "Martina Arroyo, Herbie Hancock, Billy Joel, Shirley MacLaine and Carlos Santana Are 2013 Kennedy Center Honorees" playbill.com, September 12, 2013
↑ «Al Green, Tom Hanks, Patricia McBride, Sting and Lily Tomlin To Receive 37th Annual Kennedy Center Honors». Consultado em 10 de janeiro de 2015