Actress/ singer/ director/ writer/ composer/ producer/ designer/ author/ photographer/
activist
Barbra Streisand is the only artist ever to receive Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Directors
Guild of America, Golden Globe, National Medal of Arts and Peabody Awards and France’s
Légion d’Honneur as well as the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
She is also the first female film director to receive the Kennedy Center Honors. In 2015,
President Barack Obama presented her with the highest civilian honor the United States
bestows, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
She won Oscars for both Best Actress (“Funny Girl”) and Best Original Song (for her
composition of “Evergreen” which has since become a standard.) She also was nominated
for Best Actress for “The Way We Were.” The three films she directed received 14 Oscar
nominations. Her recordings have earned her ten Grammy Awards, including and
Grammy’s Lifetime Achievement and Legend Awards.
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