The Kennedy Center Honors celebrate the 47th Honorees on Sunday, December 8, 2024. CBS will broadcast the Kennedy Center Honors on Monday, December 23. Recipients to be honored at the national celebration of the arts in Washington D.C. are: Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, American Rock Band Grateful Dead (Mickey Hart, Bill Kruetzmann, Phil Lesh, Bobby Weir) Blues rock singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt, Jazz trumpeter, pianist, composer Arturo Sandoval, and The Apollo which receive Honors as an iconic American Institution.
"I consider myself very fortunate to have been able to collaborate with great artists and wonderful people throughout my career, and I have never stopped learning. There is no greater honor than to be included along with those who inspired me, who I looked up to, and who gave me encouragement when times were dim. I am grateful to the Kennedy Center, my beloved colleagues, to those who equate beauty and truth, and to all the children of the world."
- Francis Ford Coppola