The 61-year-old actor-director, has won two Academy Awards - for best supporting actor in “Syriana” and as a producer of best picture winner “Argo” - and starred in such films as “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” “Up In the Air,” “Michael Collins” and “The Descendants.” Vianney Le Caer/Invision/APĬlooney, who played wily thief Danny Ocean in “Ocean’s Eleven” and its sequels, won’t need to mastermind any sort of scheme to take home the Kennedy Center award. But even in the wilder thoughts, we never imagined that 40 years on, we would be invited back to receive one of the nation’s greatest honours,” the band said in a statement, calling the United States “a home away from home.” George Clooney George Clooney in 2021 during the premiere of “The Tender Bar” at the London Film Festival. “We had big dreams then, fueled in part by the commonly held belief at home that America smiles on Ireland. In a statement thanking the Kennedy Center, the band noted it played its first show in America in New York in 1980. The band’s epic singles include “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” “Pride (In the Name of Love)” and “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” U2 has sold 170 million albums and been honored with 22 Grammys. to buy in and they weren’t all in the same place, Rutter said. But it took a while for the band to accept because Bono had to get his fellow band members - The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr. Rutter said she was told U2 frontman Bono was eating and dropped his fork when he was told the band had been selected for the honor. Or one piece of choreography.” It’s “about lifetime achievement.”Ī look at this year’s honorees: U2 U2 perform during a concert at the Apollo Theater hosted by SiriusXM on June 11, 2018, in New York. Rutter said the honor is “not about one work that happens to be popular this year. The show will be broadcast on CBS at a later date. 4 in Washington featuring top entertainers. This is the 45th year of the honors, which will include a gala performance Dec. … We’ve had country music, but we haven’t necessarily had Amy Grant and Christian pop in the same way,” she said, comparing Grant’s inclusion to the center’s honoring of LL Cool J in 2017, the first time the honorees included a hip-hop artist. She singled out Grant’s music in particular as a different genre being represented in the honors this year. Rutter said in an interview that her group has “worked really hard to think about ‘Are we including all of the performing arts?’” as it hands out its awards. Disco-funk band Earth, Wind & Fire was the most recent, in 2019, the year the long-running children’s TV show “Sesame Street” was honored. The Eagles were honored in 2016 and Led Zeppelin in 2012. But bands and other groups sometimes get honors, too. The center generally honors five people annually for influencing American culture through the arts. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced Thursday that the Irish rock band along with actor George Clooney, singers Gladys Knight and Amy Grant and composer Tania León are being honored this year. It’s going to be a “Beautiful Day” for the band U2 and four other artists when they receive this year’s Kennedy Center Honors in December. Kennedy Center Honors back once more, Biden attends Scenes from the annual Kennedy Center Honors Paul Pelosi attends Kennedy Center Honors in first appearance since attack Hunter Biden cagey about Elon Musk Twitter reveal on laptop story censor
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