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List of recipients of Kennedy Center Honors
The following is a list of recipients of Kennedy Center Honors. Kennedy Center Honors have been awarded since 1978:
- 2003 James Brown, Carol Burnett, Loretta Lynn, Mike Nichols, and Itzhak Perlman
- 2002 James Earl Jones, James Levine, Chita Rivera, Paul Simon, and Elizabeth Taylor
- 2001 Julie Andrews, Van Cliburn, Quincy Jones, Jack Nicholson, and Luciano Pavarotti
- 2000 Mikhail Baryshnikov, Chuck Berry, Plácido Domingo, Clint Eastwood, and Angela Lansbury
- 1999 Victor Borge, Sean Connery, Judith Jamison , Jason Robards, and Stevie Wonder
- 1998 Bill Cosby, Fred Ebb & John Kander, Willie Nelson, André Previn, and Shirley Temple Black
- 1997 Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, Charlton Heston, Jessye Norman, and Edward Villella
- 1996 Edward Albee, Benny Carter, Johnny Cash, Jack Lemmon, and Maria Tallchief
- 1995 Jacques D'Amboise, Marilyn Horne, B.B. King, Sidney Poitier, and Neil Simon
- 1994 Kirk Douglas, Aretha Franklin, Morton Gould, Harold Prince, and Pete Seeger
- 1993 Johnny Carson, Arthur Mitchell, George Solti, Stephen Sondheim, and Marion Williams
- 1992 Lionel Hampton, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ginger Rogers, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Paul Taylor
- 1991 Roy Acuff, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Fayard Nicholas , Harold Nicholas , Gregory Peck, and Robert Shaw
- 1990 Dizzy Gillespie, Katharine Hepburn, Rise Stevens , Jule Styne, and Billy Wilder
- 1989 Harry Belafonte, Claudette Colbert, Alexandra Danilova , Mary Martin and William Shuman
- 1988 Alvin Ailey, George Burns, Myrna Loy, Alexander Schneider , Roger L. Stevens
- 1987 Perry Como, Bette Davis, Sammy Davis Jr, Nathan Milstein and Alwin Nikolais
- 1986 Lucille Ball, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Yehudi Menuhin, Antony Tudor
- 1985 Merce Cunningham, Irene Dunne, Bob Hope, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe and Beverly Sills
- 1984 Lena Horne, Danny Kaye, Gian Carlo Menotti, Arthur Miller and Isaac Stern
- 1983 Katherine Dunham , Elia Kazan, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart and Virgil Thomson
- 1982 George Abbott, Lillian Gish, Benny Goodman, Gene Kelly and Eugene Ormondy
- 1981 Count Basie, Cary Grant, Helen Hayes, Jerome Robbins and Rudolf Serkin
- 1980 Leonard Bernstein, James Cagney, Agnes de Mille, Lynn Fontanne and Leontyne Price
- 1979 Aaron Copland, Ella Fitzgerald, Henry Fonda, Martha Graham and Tennessee Williams
- 1978 Marian Anderson, Fred Astaire, George Balanchine, Richard Rodgers and Arthur Rubenstein
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