Editing James Cagney (section)

==Honors and legacy==
Cagney won the Academy Award in 1943 for his performance as [[George M. Cohan]] in ''[[Yankee Doodle Dandy]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1943 |website=oscars.org |title=1943 |date=October 4, 2014 |access-date=August 30, 2019 |archive-date=May 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502001117/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1943 |url-status=live}}</ref>

For his contributions to the [[film industry]], Cagney was inducted into the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] in 1960 with a [[List of actors with Hollywood Walk of Fame motion picture stars|motion pictures star]] located at 6504 [[Hollywood Boulevard]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walkoffame.com/james-cagney |title=Hollywood Walk of Fame - James Cagney |website=walkoffame.com |publisher=Hollywood Chamber of Commerce |access-date=February 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403074807/http://www.walkoffame.com/james-cagney |archive-date=April 3, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/james-cagney/ |title=Los Angeles Times - Hollywood Star Walk |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=February 1, 2018 |archive-date=February 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212084927/http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/james-cagney/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1974, Cagney received the American Film Institute's [[AFI Life Achievement Award|Life Achievement Award]]. [[Charlton Heston]], in announcing that Cagney was to be honored, called him "one of the most significant figures of a generation when American film was dominant, Cagney, that most American of actors, somehow communicated eloquently to audiences all over the world ... and to actors as well."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/tvevents/laa/laa74.aspx|title=AFI Life Achievement Award: James Cagney|date=2009-10-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003183933/http://www.afi.com/tvevents/laa/laa74.aspx|archive-date=2009-10-03|access-date=2018-04-02}}</ref>

He received the [[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts|Kennedy Center]] Honors in 1980, and a Career Achievement Award from the U.S. [[National Board of Review]] in 1981.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1981/ |title=1981 Award Winners |date=2016 |publisher=[[National Board of Review of Motion Pictures]] |access-date=December 2, 2016 |archive-date=December 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161207025119/http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1981/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1984, Ronald Reagan awarded him the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]].<ref>{{cite news |work=Gadsden Times |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eNEfAAAAIBAJ&pg=3342%2C5059917 |title=Actor Cagney tearfully accepts freedom medal |date=March 27, 1984 |page=A8 |access-date=September 15, 2020 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107052740/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eNEfAAAAIBAJ&pg=3342%2C5059917 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1999, the [[United States Postal Service]] issued a 33-cent stamp honoring Cagney.<ref>{{cite web|title=Stamp Series |publisher=United States Postal Service |url=http://beyondtheperf.com/stamp-series |access-date=September 2, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130810160707/http://beyondtheperf.com/stamp-series |archive-date=August 10, 2013}}</ref>

Cagney was among the most favored actors for director Stanley Kubrick and actor Marlon Brando,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fU78LdDClHUC&pg=PA420 |title=Stanley Kubrick: A Biography |first=Vincent |last=LoBrutto |date=April 1999 |isbn=978-0-306-80906-4 |access-date=November 1, 2007 |publisher=Da Capo Press |location=New York }}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and was considered by [[Orson Welles]] to be "maybe the greatest actor to ever appear in front of a camera."<ref name="youtube"/> Warner Bros. arranged private screenings of Cagney films for [[Winston Churchill]].<ref name="PFrench">{{cite news |last=French |first=Phillip |title=No 18: James Cagney 1899–1986 |series=Philip French's screen legends |work=The Observer |location=UK |date=June 1, 2008 |url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2283236,00.html |access-date=October 17, 2008 |archive-date=June 1, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080601195825/http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2283236,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

On May 19, 2015, a new musical celebrating Cagney, and dramatizing his relationship with Warner Bros., opened off-Broadway in New York City at the [[York Theatre]].<ref name="yorktheatre">{{cite web|url=http://www.yorktheatre.org/cagney.html|title=Cagney – The York Theatre Company|publisher=yorktheatre.org|access-date=June 13, 2015|archive-date=June 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150617035252/http://www.yorktheatre.org/cagney.html|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Cagney, The Musical'' then moved to the [[Westside Theatre]] until May 28, 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.broadway.com/buzz/187813/off-broadway-musical-cagney-to-end-run-at-westside-theatre-is-broadway-next/|title=Off-Broadway Musical Cagney to End Run at Westside Theatre; Is Broadway Next?|website=Broadway.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-03|archive-date=March 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306044520/https://www.broadway.com/buzz/187813/off-broadway-musical-cagney-to-end-run-at-westside-theatre-is-broadway-next/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.playbill.com/article/off-broadways-cagney-ends-run-may-28|title = Off-Broadway's Cagney Ends Run May 28|date = May 28, 2017|access-date = July 5, 2019|archive-date = July 5, 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190705041025/http://www.playbill.com/article/off-broadways-cagney-ends-run-may-28|url-status = live}}</ref>