Event class: award, received, awarded, awards, arts, lifetime achievement award, prize, music, recipient, honored

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Mani Madhava Chakyar	After Mani Madhava Chakyar's first tour to New Delhi, he was awarded immediately with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1964 for his contributions to Chakyar Koothu and Kutiyattam, which became the first national recognition to the maestro and the art form.
Lydia Mendoza	Over the years, Lydia Mendoza was the recipient of numerous awards and honors : In 1982, she became the first Texan to receive the National Heritage Fellowship lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Lionel Chetwynd	In 2003 he received the Caucus of Writers, Producers and Directors Lifetime Achievement Award.
Buck O'Neil	On October 24, 2007, O'Neil was posthumously given a Lifetime Achievement Award named after him.
Harold Rome	In 1991, Rome was presented with a special Drama Desk Award for his'' distinctive contribution to musical theater.''
Bill Mechanic	He is in the Video Hall of Fame, and has received a Martini Shot Mentor award from Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards in 1999.
?ngel Romero	In 2007, he was honoured by the Recording Academy, producer of the Grammy Awards, with the Recording Academy President's Merit Award.
Margie Gillis	On March 3, 2011, Gillis was named a 2011 laureate of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.
George Jones	In 2012, Jones received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement award.
Omar Faruk Tekbilek	Tekbilek is the recipient of the'' Best Artist of the Turkish Music Award 2003'' from the'' Turkish Writers Association''.
Larry Harlow (salsa)	In 2008, Larry Harlow was presented with a Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Zubir Said	In 1995, Zubir was posthumously given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Composers and Authors Society of Singapore (COMPASS).
John Davies (historian)	In 2005 Davies received the Glyndŵr Award for an Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales during the Machynlleth Festival.
Hironobu Sakaguchi	In May 2000, Sakaguchi received the Hall of Fame Award of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
Chico Hamilton	At the IAJE in NYC January 2004, Hamilton was awarded a NEA Jazz Master Fellowship, presented to him by Roy Haynes.
Broncho Billy Anderson	In 1958, he received an Honorary Academy Award as a'' motion picture pioneer'' for his'' contributions to the development of motion pictures as entertainment.''
Des O'Connor	In 2001, he was presented with the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards for his contributions to television.
Gus Williams (musician)	He was given a Deadly in 2001 for Outstanding Contribution to Aboriginal Music.
Gene Wolfe	In March 2012 he was presented with the first Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Fuller Award, for outstanding contribution to literature by a Chicago author.
Fred Ebb	At its 2007 ceremony, the Drama Desk honored Kander and (the late) Ebb with a special award for'' 42 years of excellence in advancing the art of the musical theater.''
Donald Johanos	Johanos received an award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1991 for'' adventuresome programming of contemporary music''.
Istvan Kantor	In March 2004 he was awarded the Canadian Governor General's Award in Visual and Media arts.
Freddie Hubbard	In 2006, The National Endowment for the Arts honored Hubbard with its highest honor in jazz, the NEA Jazz Masters Award.
Jenette Kahn	Kahn received the Library of Congress Living Legends award in the'' Writers and Artists'' category in April 2000 for her significant contributions to America's cultural heritage.
Shinichi Suzuki (violinist)	During his lifetime, he received several honorary doctorates in music including from the New England Conservatory of Music (1956), and the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, was proclaimed a Living National Treasure of Japan, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize.
Julius Rudel	In 2009 he was honored by the US National Endowment for the Arts for his many contributions to Opera.
Paul J. Smith (arts administrator)	In November 2011, he received a `` Legends'' Award from the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts.
Jonathan Batiste	In 2006 he received the'' Movado Future Legend Award'', being the only to receive the honor for jazz.
Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer	He was awarded the first Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Veena in 1952, given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama.
Buddy Miller	At the annual Americana Music Association Honors and Awards program at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee on September 18, 2008, Miller received the'' AMA Instrumentalist Of The Year'' award, which was presented to him by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.
James Hormel	In 2010 he was given the Lifetime Achievement Grand Marshall Award by San Francisco Pride Board of Directors for his LGBT activism over several decades.
Dean Martin	In February 2009, Martin was honored with a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Carole King	She is the recipient of the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first woman to be so honored.
Paul Simon	In 2007, Simon received the first annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
Margaret H'Doubler	In 1963 she was a Heritage Award recipient of the National Dance Association.
Tony Butler	In 2007, he was honoured by the Sony Radio Academy with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Bernie Finkelstein	In 2006, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (CARAS) awarded Bernie the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award, which is only given to'' individuals who have contributed to the growth of the Canadian music industry''.
Garry Marshall	In 1996 he was awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award in recognition of excellence and innovation in creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television.
John Payne (singer)	At the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles, he presented the 2004 MVPA video awards.
Bruce Goldstein	Prior to his work at Film Forum, Goldstein In 1990 Goldstein was awarded the New York Film Critics Circle Awards for'' visionary programming.''
William MacQuitty	In 2002 the Royal Photographic Society described him as'' a phenomenon in film'', and he was awarded the Society's Lumiè re Award for distinction in film and photography.
Chang Baohua	In August 2006, Chang Baohua was awarded The Peony Award, which is the best honor in the Chinese folk art community.
Michelangelo Antonioni	In 1994 he was given the Honorary Academy Award'' in recognition of his place as one of the cinema's master visual stylists.''
B.B. King	King was given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987.
Bill T. Jones	In 2003 Jones was awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the richest prizes in the arts, given annually to `` a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind's enjoyment and understanding of life.''
Ruby Myers	She was awarded the 1973 Dada Saheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in cinema for lifetime achievement.
Jack Richardson (record producer)	The non-profit Jack Richardson Music Awards, started in 2005, are named in his honour and given to up-and-coming musical acts and artists from London in a variety of categories.
Paul Daniels	Daniels was the first recipient of The Maskelyne, awarded for services to British Magic by The Magic Circle in 1988.
Alice Tully	In 1970, Tully was awarded the Handel Medallion for her contributions to the cultural life of New York City.
Thomas Berger (novelist)	In 1965, he received a Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award, National Institute of Arts and Letters, and a Western Heritage Award, both for Little Big Man.
Henry Townsend (musician)	- Tony Russell,'' The Guardian'' </poem> On February 10, 2008, Townsend was posthumously awarded a Grammy, his first, at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards.
Jennifer Tipton	In 2001 Tipton was awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the richest prizes in the arts, given annually to `` a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind's enjoyment and understanding of life.''
Tom Paxton	In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Simon J. Ortiz	Ortiz is a recipient of the New Mexico Humanities Council Humanitarian Award, the National Endowment for the Arts Discovery Award, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writer's Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and was an Honored Poet recognized at the 1981 White House Salute to Poetry.
Donald McKayle	In 2004 he received the Heritage Award from the National Dance Association for his contributions to dance education.
Benny Blanco	On June 13th, 2013, Blanco was awarded with the Hal David Starlight Award at the 44th Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony, awarded to young artists who have already made an impression on the music industry.
Merle Haggard	Merle Haggard accepted the prestigious award for lifetime achievement and'' outstanding contribution to American culture'' from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on December 4, 2010.
Etta James	In 2003, she was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Isao Takahata	Takahata was awarded the Special Award at the Kobe Animation Awards on November 4, 2007.
Alanis Obomsawin	In March 2001, Obomsawin received a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.
Phil Ramone	Ramone was nominated for 33 Grammy award s, winning 14 including a Technical Grammy Award in 2005 for a lifetime of innovative contributions to the recording industry.
Tony Burman	In October 2007, Burman received the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Gordon Sinclair Award for lifetime achievement in broadcast journalism.
Sam Snead	In 1998, he received the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award, the fourth person to be so honored.
Cyril Dabydeen	He received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence from the Guyana Awards Council (Canada), May 29, 2010, in Toronto.
Merri Dee	In 2000, she was honored with an honorary Doctorate of Humanities by Lewis University ; the following year, Dee won the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' Silver Circle Award.
Bill Douglas (musician)	In 1994, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), the Canadian equivalent of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI), presented him with their classical composer of the year award.
Douglas Trumbull	Trumbull was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010, citing first his stature as'' innovative master of special effects''.
Prakash Mehra	He also received Lifetime Achievement as Producer from IMPPA (Indian Motion Picture Producers Association) on 19 September 2008.
Tichi Wilkerson Kassel	In 1971, Wilkerson Kassel started the Key Art Awards, which annually honor outstanding achievement in motion picture and TV advertising and promotion ; and the Marketing Concepts Awards, which offers recognition and cash rewards to motion picture exhibitors who develop and originate innovative and effective marketing campaigns.
Earl Bellamy	In 2002, the Motion Picture and Television Fund gave him the prestigious Golden Boot Award.
Gustav Brom	Brom was honoured in 1993 with the Luděk Hulan Jazz Award, presented yearly by the Czech Jazz Society, Prague.
Ernst Lubitsch	In March 1947, Lubitsch was awarded a Special Academy Award for his'' 25-year contribution to motion pictures''.
Stella Stevens	In 2005 Stevens was awarded the Reel Cowboys Silver Spur Award for her notable contribution to the Western genre.
Barry Tuckwell	In 2007, Tuckwell received the JC Williamson Award for his life's work in the live performance industry.
Richard Gaddes	In November 2008, Gaddes was one of four recipients of the first National Endowment for the Arts's'' Opera Honors Award'' given at a ceremony in Washington, DC.
John Lloyd Cruz	In Cinema One Originals 2009, he was awarded as one of the 15 Cinema One Legends.
Frank Darabont	At the 2012 Austin Film Festival, Darabont was awarded the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award for his contribution to cinema.
Alan Freeman	In May 2000 he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement award at the Sony Radio Academy Awards.
Barry Barclay	In 2004, Barclay received an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award.
Cleo Laine	In 2008, Dankworth and Laine won the Gold Award at the BBC Jazz Awards.
Michael Attenborough	In 2012 Attenborough was presented with the Award for Excellence in International Theatre by The International Theatre Institute.
Malay Roy Choudhury	Roy Choudhury was bestowed with the Sahitya Academy award for translating Dharamvir Bharati's Suraj Ka Satwan Ghora in 2003, Government of India's highest award in the field, which he politely refused to accept as he never accepts literary and cultural awards ; he has been refusing awards from various periodicals since he started writing poetry.
Willa Cather	In 1944, Cather received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, an award given once a decade for an author's total accomplishments.
Charlie Haden	In 2012, Haden was a recipient of the NEA Jazz Masters Award.
Morton Gould	In 2005, he was honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Ornette Coleman	On July 9, 2009, Ornette Coleman received the Miles Davis Award, a recognition given by the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal to jazz musicians who have contributed along their careers to the evolution of the jazz music.
Ellie Mannette	In recognition of his significant contribution to this thriving art form, Mannette received the 1999 NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award, the highest honor for the traditional arts given in the United States.
Donald McGannon	In 1968, Donald McGannon was awarded the Trustee Award of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Television Academy's highest honor, given in recognition of unusual or enduring achievements to the arts or sciences of television.
Robert Rauschenberg	He became the recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts in 1995 in recognition of his more than 40 years of fruitful artmaking.
Hanya Holm	Holm has been honored by the National Dance Association, in 1976, with the Heritage Award for her contributions to dance education.
Dolly Rathebe	In 2001 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the South African Music Awards.
George S. Irving	On December 8, 2008, aged 86, Irving received the 17th Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre.
Alan Lomax	Lomax also received a posthumous Grammy Trustees Award for his lifetime achievements in 2003.
Jan Morris	In 2005, she was awarded the Golden PEN Award by English PEN for'' a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature''.
Etta Zuber Falconer	In 2001, she received the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement.
George Strait	In April 2009, George Strait was honored by the Academy of Country Music with the Artist of the Decade Award.
Linwood G. Dunn	In 1984, he received the Gordon E. Sawyer award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as well as being awarded Honorary Membership in The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers -- their highest honor.
Paul Brooks Davis	In 1987, The Drama Desk created a special award to recognize Davis's iconic posters for Joseph Papp's Public Theater, and he is in the Hall of Fame of both the Art Directors Club and the Society of Illustrators.
Clark Terry	He was the recipient of the 2010 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Linda Perry	In 2007, Perry won an award from the San Francisco chapter of the Recording Academy for her contribution to the world of music.