HONOREE: Rita Moreno Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Emmy Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning actress and singer
TRIBUTE PRESENTERS/PERFORMERS:
Gina Rodriguez (Spoken Tribute) Golden Globe Award-winning actress
Rosie Perez (Performs "Fever") Academy Award and Emmy Award-nominated actress
Lin-Manuel Miranda (Spoken Tribute) Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning actor and singer
Karen Olivo (Performs "America") Tony Award-winning actress and singer
HONOREE: Seiji Ozawa Grammy Award and Emmy Award-winning conductor
TRIBUTE PRESENTERS/ PERFORMERS:
Itzhak Perlman (Spoken Tribute) Conductor and violinist Awarded the 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom
Renée Fleming (Spoken Tribute) Opera singer
Yo-Yo Ma (Performs Tchaikovsky: "Andante Cantabile") Grammy Award-winning cellist
HONOREE: George Lucas Renowned Filmmaker Awarded a National Medal of Arts
TRIBUTE PRESENTERS/ PERFORMERS:
Carrie Fisher (Spoken Tribute) Actress, novelist and screenwriter
Mellody Hobson (Spoken Tribute) Wife of George Lucas
Steven Spielberg (Spoken Tribute) Academy Award-winning director and producer
Martin Scorsese (Spoken Tribute) Academy Award, Emmy Award and Grammy Award-winning director, producer and screenwriter
C-3PO, R2-D2 and Stormtroopers (Special Guests)
Kennedy Center Honors Orchestra (Performs "Indiana Jones/Star Wars")
SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO THE EAGLES BY:
Miranda Lambert (Performs "Desperado") Country musical artist
HONOREE: Cicely Tyson Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning actress
TRIBUTE PRESENTERS/PERFORMERS:
Tyler Perry (Spoken Tribute) Actor, filmmaker, writer and producer
Viola Davis (Spoken Tribute) Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning actress
Kerry Washington (Spoken Tribute) Emmy Award-nominated actress
Terence Blanchard (Performs "My Funny Valentine") Grammy Award-winning musician
CeCe Winans (Performs "Blessed Assurance" Grammy Award-winning gospel singer
HONOREE: Carole King Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame
TRIBUTE PRESENTERS/ PERFORMERS:
John Kerry (Spoken Tribute) United States Secretary of State
Chilina Kennedy (Performs Duet of "So Far Away") Broadway actress and singer
Scott J. Campbell (Performs Duet of "So Far Away") Broadway actor and singer
Paul Anthony Stewart (Spoken Tribute) Broadway actor and singer
Janelle Monáe (Performs "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" and "One Fine Day") Musician and actress
James Taylor (Performs "Up on the Roof") Grammy Award and Emmy Award-winning musician
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame
Sara Bareilles (Performs "You've Got a Friend") Singer-songwriter
Aretha Franklin (Performs "Natural Woman") Grammy Award-winning singer Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Tribute Cast (Performs "I Feel the Earth Move")