Fred Astaire-Awards, Honors, And Tributes

 

• 1938: Invited to place his hand and foot prints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood.
• 1950: Ginger Rogers presented an honorary Academy Award to Astaire "for his unique artistry and his contributions to the technique of musical pictures".
• 1950: Golden Globe for "Best Motion Picture Actor -Music/Comedy" for Three Little Words
• 1958: Emmy Award for "Best Single Performance by an Actor" for An Evening with Fred Astaire
• 1959: Dance Magazine award
• 1960: Nominated for Emmy Award for "Program Achievement" for Another Evening with Fred Astaire
• 1960: Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for "Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures"
• 1961: Emmy Award for "Program Achievement" in 1961 for Astaire Time
• 1961: Voted Champion of Champions—Best Television performer in annual television critics and columnists poll conducted by Television Today and Motion Picture Daily
• 1965: The George Eastman Award from the George Eastman House for "outstanding contributions to motion pictures"
• 1968: Nominated for an Emmy Award for Musical Variety Program for The Fred Astaire Show
• 1972: Named Musical Comedy Star of the Century by Liberty, "The Nostalgia Magazine".
• 1973: Subject of a Gala by the Film Society of Lincoln Center
• 1975: Academy Award nomination for The Towering Inferno
• 1975: Golden Globe for "Best Supporting Actor", BAFTA and David di Donatello awards for The Towering Inferno
• 1978: Emmy Award for "Best Actor—Drama or Comedy Special" for A Family Upside Down
• 1978: Honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
• 1978: First recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors
• 1978: National Artist Award from the American National Theatre Association for "contributing immeasurably to the American Theatre"
• 1981: The Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute
• 1982: The Anglo-American Contemporary Dance Foundation announces the Astaire Awards "to honor Fred Astaire and his sister Adele and to reward the achievement of an outstanding dancer or dancers". The awards have since been renamed The Fred and Adele Astaire Awards
• 1987: The Capezio Dance Shoe Award (co-awarded with Rudolph Nureyev)
• 1987: Inducted into the National Museum of Dance C.V. Whitney Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York
• 1989: Posthumous award of Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1989: Posthumous induction into the Television Hall of Fame
• 1991: Posthumous induction into the Ballroom Dancer's Hall of Fame
• 1999: Posthumous award of Grammy Hall of Fame Award for 1952 The Astaire Story album
• 2000: Ava Astaire McKenzie unveils a plaque in honor of her father, erected by the citizens of Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland
• 2008: Conference to honor the life and work of Fred Astaire at Oriel College, University of Oxford, June 21–24.

Built in 1905, the Gottlieb Storz Mansion in Astaire's hometown of Omaha includes the "Adele and Fred Astaire Ballroom" on the top floor, which is the only memorial to their Omaha roots.

Astaire is referenced in the 2003 animated feature, The Triplets of Belleville, in which he is eaten by his shoes after a fast-paced dance act.

 

Bob Hope-Honors

 

In 1962, Bob Hope was presented with the United States Congressional Gold Medal.

In 1969, President Lyndon Johnson bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Bob Hope for his service to the men and women of the armed forces through the USO.

Inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1983.

He was a member of the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in the radio division.

Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great (KCSG) – 1989

In 1995, Bob Hope was presented with the National Medal of Arts.

Hope received the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award in 1997.

Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) – 1998

Member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels

One of the few non-members given the privilege of dotting the 'i' in the Script Ohio routine performed by The Ohio State University Marching Band.

The historic chapel at the Los Angeles National Cemetery was renamed as the Bob Hope Veterans Chapel on his 99th birthday, May 29, 2002 in "celebration of his lifelong service to our American Veterans."

San Diego Chargers owner and friend, Alex Spanos donated $500,000 to the historic Fox Theater in downtown Stockton, California to rename the theater, it was later approved from the city to change it to "The Bob Hope Theater".

The Burbank, California, public airport was renamed Bob Hope Airport in 2003.

The historic Bob Hope Patriotic Hall building on Figueroa Street in Los Angeles County was named in his honor on August 3, 2003, by the Board of Supervisors.

USNS Bob Hope (T-AKR-300) of the U.S. Military Sealift Command was named after the performer in 1997. It is one of very few U.S. naval ships that were named after living people.

The United States Air Force named a C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft after Hope, the Spirit of Bob Hope.

The hotel on Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, OH, the scene of the Dayton Peace Accords ending the fighting in the Former Yugoslavia, is named the Hope Hotel after Bob Hope. The bar in the hotel is called "Packy's" after Hope's prize fighting name.

The USO at Los Angeles International Airport LAX is dedicated to Bob Hope.

The dining facility at Camp Lemonnier (Djibouti) is named the Bob Hope Galley.

In 2008, the research library at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum was renamed by Congress with the consent of the President, as the Bob Hope Memorial Library.

For contributions to the live theater, radio, motion picture, and television, Bob Hope was honored with four stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

At the U.S. Naval Academy, Alumni Hall is home to the Bob Hope Performing Arts Center.

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. has a wing funded by Dolores and Bob Hope in memory of his mother. It is dedicated to a miracle in Pontmain, France.

The municipal clock tower of Utica, New York is named the Tower of Hope in honor of Bob Hope.

In 2009, "A National Salute to Bob Hope and the Military" was dedicated in San Diego, California.

The 64th and only civilian recipient of the United States Air Force "Order of the Sword." The Order of the Sword recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the enlisted corps. Presented June 10, 1980.

In 2011, British independent label Audio Antihero released a charity compilation to raise money for the Japan crisis entitled "Bob Hope would" in tribute to his many fundraising efforts.

At Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, the base theater is named the Bob Hope Theater.

In 1996 TV Guide ranked Hope number 25 on it's '50 Greatest TV Stars' of All Time' list.

Hope had a long and close association with Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, USA. "The Bob Hope Theatre, which opened in 1968" in the Owen Fine Arts Center of the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU, "was built with gifts from the entertainer totaling more than $800,000."