Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale

Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)

Swedish director and screenwriter (1918–2007)

Italian filmmaker (1920–1993)

American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)

American filmmaker (born 1939)

Brazilian architect (1907–2012)

Indian sitar player (1920–2012)

English actress (born 1934)

Iraqi British architect, designer and painter (1950–2016)

Chinese-American architect (1917–2019)

Frank Owen Gehry was a Canadian and American architect and designer known for his postmodern designs and use of unconventional forms and materials. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become attractions. His most famous works include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. These buildings are characterized by their sculptural, often undulating exteriors and innovative use of materials such as titanium and stainless steel.

American conductor and composer (1918–1990)

Polish film director (1926–2016)

Spanish tenor and conductor (born 1941)

British actor (1923–2014)

Serbian performance artist (born 1946)

Italian architect (1937-)

Estonian composer (born 1935)

British architect (born 1935)

Russian ballet dancer (1925-2015)

British theatre composer (born 1948)

Japanese architect (1913–2005)

Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor (1927-2007)

American composer (born 1937)

Italian conductor (1933–2014)

French composer, conductor and writer (1925–2016)

Polish composer and conductor (1933–2020)

British actor and theatre director (1904-2000)

Indian conductor

French-American artist (1911–2010)

Argentine pianist (1941-)

French-born Swiss ballet dancer and choreographer (1927–2007)

Japanese artist (born 1929)

Dutch architect (1944-)

Canadian jazz pianist (1925–2007)

Hungarian composer (1923-2006)

Japanese architect (born 1941)

American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer (1930–2015)

American architect (born 1934)

German visual artist (b. 1932)

Israeli Argentine-born pianist and conductor (born 1942)

Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist (1904–1997)

English theatre and film director (1925–2022)

French architect (b.1945)

Soviet and Russian composer (1931–2025)

German architect (1925-2015)

German dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director (1940–2009)

plastician, painter and sculptor (1930–2002)

British architect (1933–2021)

German painter and sculptor (born 1945)

Italian composer (1925–2003)

English painter and printmaker (born 1937)

German violinist

French film director (1906 – 1996)

American composer (born 1936)

American composer and lyricist (1930–2021)

American painter and graphic artist (1925–2008)

German artist (born 1938)

Austrian composer and pianist (1931–2025)

British sculptor (born 1950)