The Kennedy Center Honors recipients for 2024 are Francis Ford Coppola, Grateful Dead, Bonnie Raitt, Arturo Sandoval and the iconic Apollo in New York. This 47th annual group of five selections will be honored at a Washington, D.C. ceremony in early December. CBS will air the two-hour event later in December.
Raitt and the Grateful Dead are members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Sandoval is a legendary jazz musician and composer. Coppola is the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now.” The Apollo marks the first time that a KCH will be provided to an institution rather than a specific person. For the Grateful Dead, the honorees attending will be Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir.
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Honorees are chosen from the fields of acting (both film and TV), popular music (pop, rock, country), theatre and fine arts (classical music, instrumentalists, opera singers, dancers, conductors and more). Last year’s 2023 honorees were Billy Crystal, Renee Fleming, Barry Gibb, Queen Latifah and Dionne Warwick.
The Kennedy Center Honors selections for 2021 were Justino Diaz, Berry Gordy, Lorne Michaels, Bette Midler and Joni Mitchell. The 2022 honorees were George Clooney, Amy Grant, Gladys Knight, Tania Leon and U2.
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