Arts Awards
- 1944: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. A special award for Oklahoma!
- 1974: Roger Sessions. A special citation to Roger Sessions for his life's work as a distinguished American composer.
- 1976: Scott Joplin. A special award is bestowed posthumously on Scott Joplin, in this Bicentennial Year, for his contributions to American music.
- 1982: Milton Babbitt. A special citation to Milton Babbitt for his life's work as a distinguished and seminal American composer.
- 1985: A special citation to William Schuman for more than half a century of contribution to American music as composer and educational leader.
- 1998: George Gershwin. Awarded posthumously to George Gershwin, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, for his distinguished and enduring contributions to American music.
- 1999: Duke Ellington. Bestowed posthumously on Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, in recognition of his musical genius, which evoked aesthetically the principles of democracy through the medium of jazz and thus made an indelible contribution to art and culture.
- 2006: Thelonious Monk, for a "body of distinguished and innovative musical composition that has had a significant and enduring impact on the evolution of jazz."
- 2007: Ray Bradbury, for his "distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy" and John Coltrane, for his "masterful improvisation, supreme musicianship and iconic centrality to the history of jazz."
- 2008: Bob Dylan, "for his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."
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