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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 ...
Washington was also nominated as a producer for Fences. Washington is one of eight actors who has been nominated for an acting Academy Award in five different decades (1980s, '90s. 2000s, '10s and '20s), joining Laurence Olivier, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Michael Caine, Meryl Streep and Frances McDormand.
Washington was previously selected to receive the honor in 2022, but he was unable to attend the ceremony due to contracting COVID-19. President Biden pledged to award him the honor at a future date.
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, producer, and director. Known for his dramatic roles on stage and screen , The New York Times named him the greatest actor of the 21st century in 2020.
The 47th annual event, hosted by Queen Latifah in the Kennedy Center Opera House in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 8, ... The 47th Kennedy Center Honors will air Sunday, Dec. 22 at 8:30 p.m. ET on CBS ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — “Not Fade Away” closed out the Kennedy Center Honors at this year’s ceremony, just as honorees The Grateful Dead had used Buddy Holly’s ode to enduring love to close ...
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).
The 46th Kennedy Center Honors celebrated some of the legendary performers of our time in a prerecorded special that aired on Wednesday.