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.[1]
Pratik Bilgiler Ülke, Verilmeye başlandığı yıl ...
Kapat
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[2]
- 2012 — Buddy Guy, Dustin Hoffman, Led Zeppelin (John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page ve Robert Plant, David Letterman, Natalia Makarova[3]
- 2013 — Martina Arroyo, Herbie Hancock, Billy Joel, Shirley MacLaine ve Carlos Santana[3]
- 2014 — Al Green, Tom Hanks, Patricia McBride, Sting ve Lily Tomlin[4]
- 2015 — Carole King, George Lucas, Rita Moreno, Seiji Ozawa ve Cicely Tyson[5]
- 2016 — Martha Argerich, Eagles (Don Henley, Timothy B. Schmit ve Joe Walshile Glenn Frey[6]), Al Pacino, Mavis Staples, James Taylor[7][8]