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President George W.
Bush
First Lady Laura
Bush
Walter Cronkite
James Earl Jones
James Levine
Chita Rivera
Paul Simon
Elizabeth Taylor
Burt Bacharach
Matt Bogart
Charlotte d'Amboise
Placido Domingo
Charles S. Dutton
Kelsey Grammer
Rudolph Giuliani
Billy Hartung
Alicia Keys
Alison Krauss
Brian Stokes
Mitchell
Steve Martin
John Mellencamp
Donna Murphy
Patricia Ben
Peterson
Valarie Pettiford
Sidney Poitier
Harold Prince
Alice Ripley
James Taylor
Bryn Terfel
John Travolta
Courtney B. Vance
Frederica Von Stade
Dionne Warwick
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Click here to see a complete list of Kennedy Center honorees over the past 25 years!
Walter Cronkite hosts this special celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Kennedy Center Honors. Actor James Earl Jones, conductor James Levine, dancer/actress Chita Rivera, singer/songwriter Paul Simon and actress Elizabeth Taylor will receive honors for the year 2002. They were saluted by President George W. Bush, first lady Laura Bush, as well as artists from around the world at a gala performance in the Kennedy Center's Opera House on December 8.
Each year, the Honors recipients are selected by the Board of Trustees of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The recipients are recognized for their lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts: whether in dance, music, theater, opera, motion pictures or television. The primary criterion in the selection process is excellence. The Honors are not designated by art form or category of artistic achievement; the selection process, over the years, has produced balance among the various arts and artistic disciplines.
Members of the Kennedy Center's National Artists Committee, as well as past Honorees, make recommendations of possible Honorees.
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