Praemium Imperiale

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Notable Honorees

Martin Scorsese • Francis Ford Coppola • Ingmar Bergman • Shirin Neshat • Ai Weiwei • Kurosawa Akira • El Anatsui • Jean-Luc Godard • Willem de Kooning • Zaha Hadid • I.M. Pei • Frank Gehry • Ravi Shankar • Álvaro Siza • Abbas Kiarostami • Judi Dench • Pierre Boulez • Youssou N’Dour • Rem Koolhaas • Antony Gormley • Arthur Miller • Yayoi Kusama • Peter Zumthor • Richard Meier • Cai Guo-Qiang • Pierre Soulages • Stephen Sondheim • Ellsworth Kelly • Anish Kapoor • Jean Nouvel • Toyo Ito • Arvo Pärt • Tom Stoppard • Yo-Yo Ma • Catherine Deneuve • Rafael Moneo • Ken Loach • Philip Glass • Norman Foster • Peter Brook • Steve Reich • Hiroshi Sugimoto • Oscar Niemeyer • Richard Serra • Sebastião Salgado • Sofia Gubaidulina • David Chipperfield • Merce Cunningham • James Turrell • Plácido Domingo • Cindy Sherman • Richard Rogers • Sigmar Polke • Sylvie Guillem • Issey Miyake • Seiji Ozawa • David Hockney • Sophia Loren • Andrzej Wajda • Yoshio Taniguchi • Christian de Portzamparc • Ornette Coleman • Jasper Johns • Henning Larsen • Hans Werner Henze • Richard Attenborough • Balthus • Mikhail Baryshnikov • Riccardo Muti • Mitsuko Uchida • John Gielgud • Tange Kenzō • Glenn Murcutt • Bill Viola • Anselm Kiefer • Georg Baselitz • György Ligeti • Krzysztof Penderecki • Zubin Mehta • Robert Rauschenberg • Bridget Riley • César • Gerhard Richter • Luciano Berio • Louise Bourgeois • Paulo Mendes da Rocha • Sir Anthony Caro • Robert Ryman • Maya Plisetskaya • Maurice Béjart • Eduardo Chillida • Oscar Peterson • Roberto Matta • Mstislav Rostropovich • Antoni Tàpies • Alfred Brendel • Max Bill • Ellen Stewart • Steven Holl • Sir James Stirling • Claudio Abbado • Pierre de Meuron • Jacques Herzog • Christo • George Segal • Maurizio Pollini

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Japan the arts Turner Prize Pulitzer Prize Cervantes Prize Pritzker Prize