Kennedy Center Onur Ödülleri

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]

• 1978 — Marian Anderson, Fred Astaire, George Balanchine, Richard Rodgers ve Arthur Rubinstein
• 1979 — Aaron Copland, Ella Fitzgerald, Henry Fonda, Martha Grahamve Tennessee Williams

• 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 — 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 — 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 — 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]