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For the first time, the 2019 Honorees included a television program. The co-founders of Sesame Street, Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett, accepted the Kennedy Center Honors on behalf of all the creators. [32] In 2024, a special award was given to the Apollo Theater in New York City, the first institution to be awarded at the Kennedy Center ...
The 2024 Kennedy Center Honors marked a big family reunion for Francis Ford Coppola. The award-winning director, 85, was among this year’s honorees recognized for their lifetime artistic ...
The 2024 edition of the Kennedy Center Honors celebrated an eclectic assortment of entertainers Sunday night: filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, singer Bonnie Raitt, trumpeter Arturo Sandoval and ...
Director Francis Ford Coppola, singer Bonnie Raitt and the surviving members of the Grateful Dead are among the honorees in the Kennedy Center's 2024 class.
But Raitt said the Kennedy Center Honors status holds a special place because it extends to all aspects of the performing arts, encompassing all forms of music, dance and performance. “The thing that puts (Kennedy Center Honors) at the pinnacle is that it’s culture-wide,” she said. “It’s hard for me to even fathom what this means.”
With the exception of a joke by comedian David Letterman that the Kennedy Center was trying to fit as many Honors ceremonies in as possible before Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20, politics took a ...
In 2014, he received a Kennedy Center Honor, and in 2016, he received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, [2] as well as the French Legion of Honor. [3] In 2020, he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. Hanks made his starring film debut in Ron Howard's romantic comedy Splash (1984).
July 18, 2024 at 7:45 AM. WASHINGTON (AP) — An iconoclastic filmmaking legend and one of the world's most enduring musical acts headline this year's crop of Kennedy Center Honors recipients.