Kennedy center honors 2015

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")