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    The Praemium Imperiale (Japanese: 高松宮殿下記念世界文化賞, romanized: Takamatsu-no-miya Denka Kinen Sekai Bunka-shō, lit. 'World Culture Prize in Memory of His Imperial...
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    Francis Ford Coppola (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    Francis Ford Coppola (/ˈkoʊpələ/ KOH-pəl-ə, Italian: [ˈkɔppola]; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered...
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    Judi Dench (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    Dame Judith Olivia Dench CH DBE FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress. Widely considered one of Britain's greatest actors, she is noted for...
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    Andrew Lloyd Webber (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber, KG (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have...
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    David Hockney (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    David Hockney OM CH RA (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor...
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    Ingmar Bergman (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest and...
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    Arthur Miller (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    from the Saint Louis University Library Associates. He received the Praemium Imperiale prize in 2001, the Prince of Asturias Award in 2002, and the Jerusalem...
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    Yayoi Kusama (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    October 2006, Kusama became the first Japanese woman to receive the Praemium Imperiale, one of Japan's highest honors for internationally recognized artists...
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    Plácido Domingo (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 21 January 1941) is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete...
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    John Gielgud (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (/ˈɡiːlɡʊd/; 14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades...
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    I. M. Pei (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    of architecture, including the AIA Gold Medal in 1979, the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture in 1989, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from...
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    Anish Kapoor (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    Venice Biennale 1991 Turner Prize 1999 elected Royal Academician 2011 Praemium Imperiale Civilian honours 2003 Commander of the Order of the British Empire...
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  • Cy Twombly (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    "Rubenspreis der Stadt Siegen" [de]. Most notably, he was awarded the Praemium Imperiale in 1996. Twombly was invited to exhibit his work at the Venice Biennale...
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    the 2009 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the 2021 Praemium Imperiale. Glenn Murcutt works as a sole practitioner without staff, builds...
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    Gazette – via International Music Network. "Music | Youssou N'Dour". Praemium Imperiale. 2017. "Les Victoires de La Musique - Palmarès 2001". Francetv.fr...
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    Antony Gormley (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    He was the recipient of the Obayashi Prize in 2012 and is the 2013 Praemium Imperiale laureate for sculpture. Gormley was knighted in the 2014 New Year...
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    Richard Attenborough (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE, FRSA (/ˈætənbərə/; 29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014) was an English actor, film director, and producer...
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    Leonard Bernstein (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    1985, France's Legion of Honour (Commander) in 1985, and Japan's Praemium Imperiale in 1990, among others. In the 1980s, Bernstein cemented his educational...
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    Akira Kurosawa (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    Akira Kurosawa (黒澤明 or 黒沢明, Kurosawa Akira, March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed 30 films in a career...
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    Issey Miyake (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    Prestige International division of Shiseido. In 2005, he was awarded the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture Miyake won the Arts and Philosophy Kyoto Prize in 2006...
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    Niki de Saint Phalle (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    November 2010. "Niki de Saint Phalle – Praemium Imperiale" Archived 2014-11-13 at the Wayback Machine, Praemium Imperiale, Retrieved 12 November 2014. "The...
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    Stephen Sondheim (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    Stephen Joshua Sondheim (/ˈsɒndhaɪm/; March 22, 1930 – November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist. Regarded as one of the most important...
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  • Anselm Kiefer (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    the Wolf Prize. In 1999 the Japan Art Association awarded him the Praemium Imperiale for his lifetime achievements. In the explanatory statement it reads:...
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  • Oxford (1993) and Cambridge (1995). In 2003, she was awarded the Praemium Imperiale, and, in 1998, she became one of only 65 Members of the Order of the...
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    Philip Glass (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    Classical Music Hall of Fame (2010) NEA Opera Honors Award (2010) Praemium Imperiale (2012) Dance Magazine Award (2013) Honorary Doctor of Music, Juilliard...
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    Zaha Hadid (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    Architecture 2008: RIBA European Award for Nordpark Cable Railway 2009: Praemium Imperiale 2010: RIBA European Award for MAXXI 2012: Jane Drew Prize for her...
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    Medal of Arts and the MacArthur Fellowship. He also received Japan's Praemium Imperiale and a British Laurence Olivier Award, and was named Officier of the...
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    Ravi Shankar (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    International Music Council (1975) Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize (1991) Praemium Imperiale for music from the Japan Art Association (1997) Polar Music Prize...
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    Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM, RA, HonFREng (born 1 June 1935) is an English architect and designer. Closely associated with the...
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    Pierre Boulez (category Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale)
    Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ lwi ʒozεf bulɛz]; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer,...
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