Editing Norman Lear (section)

==Awards and honors==
Lear has been honored for his influence on American television and culture.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/norman-lear-just-another-version-of-you-homage-to-a-visionary-tv-producer/2016/07/21/d21fa436-49de-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html|title='Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You': Homage to a visionary TV producer|last=Hornaday|first=Ann|date=July 21, 2016|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=December 6, 2023|archive-date=March 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190317004702/https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/norman-lear-just-another-version-of-you-homage-to-a-visionary-tv-producer/2016/07/21/d21fa436-49de-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Before ''All in the Family'', television sitcoms in the 1950s and 1960s generally portrayed white American family life as comfortable and avoided raising issues such as racial discrimination and patriarchy.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.vulture.com/2023/12/remembrance-norman-lear-19222023.html|title=Norman Lear's Truth|last=VanArendonk|first=Kathryn|date=December 6, 2023|website=[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]]|access-date=December 6, 2023|archive-date=December 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231206232909/https://www.vulture.com/2023/12/remembrance-norman-lear-19222023.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/arts/television/norman-lear-all-in-the-family.html|date=December 6, 2023|title=Norman Lear, TV's Greatest American|last=Poniewozik|first=James|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=December 6, 2023|archive-date=December 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231206150030/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/arts/television/norman-lear-all-in-the-family.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Beginning in 1971, ''All in the Family'' openly discussed current social and political topics and became the country's most popular show for five straight years.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/08/01/norman-lear-remade-tv-decades-later-he-still-shapes-what-we-watch/|title=Norman Lear remade TV, and decades later he still shapes what we watch|last=Winberg|first=Oscar|date=August 1, 2022|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=December 6, 2023|archive-date=June 23, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230623194247/https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/08/01/norman-lear-remade-tv-decades-later-he-still-shapes-what-we-watch/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="USAT2023">{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2023/12/06/norman-lear-appreciation-genius-revolutionized-television/2055436002/|title=He changed television forever. Why we all owe thanks to the genius of Norman Lear.|last=Bianco|first=Robert|date=December 6, 2023|newspaper=[[USA Today]]|access-date=December 6, 2023|archive-date=December 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231206232933/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2023/12/06/norman-lear-appreciation-genius-revolutionized-television/2055436002/|url-status=live}}</ref> Lear's subsequent shows widened television's representation of racial and gender diversity, such as ''Good Times'', the first television show centered on an African-American nuclear family;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/individual-award-norman-lear/|title=Individual Award: Norman Lear|publisher=[[Peabody Awards]]|year=2016|access-date=December 6, 2023|archive-date=November 12, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231112155837/https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/individual-award-norman-lear/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.barrons.com/news/norman-lear-sitcom-king-who-changed-tv-and-america-fc390205|title=Norman Lear, Sitcom King Who Changed TV – And America|last=Mathes|first=Matthew|date=December 6, 2023|newspaper=[[Barron's]]|access-date=December 6, 2023|archive-date=December 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231206232910/https://www.barrons.com/news/norman-lear-sitcom-king-who-changed-tv-and-america-fc390205|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/arts/television/norman-lear-good-times-the-jeffersons.html|title=Norman Lear Reshaped How America Saw Black Families|last1=Abrams|first1=Jonathan|last2=Kuo|first2=Christopher|date=2023-12-09|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=2023-12-09|archive-date=December 9, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231209110341/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/arts/television/norman-lear-good-times-the-jeffersons.html/|url-status=live}}</ref> Television screenwriter [[Paddy Chayefsky]] said that Lear "put the American people [on screen] ... he took the audience and put them on the set".<ref>{{cite book|title=On Becoming a Leader|page=27|first=Warren G.|last=Bennis|author-link=Warren Bennis|date=March 3, 2009|publisher=[[Basic Books]]|isbn=9780465003983}}</ref> However, it has been acknowledged that [[James L. Brooks]] TV series ''[[Room 222]]'', which was not made by Lear and which debuted before Lear's shows debuted, was also among the first shows to not only feature an African American lead character in a less stereotypical role, a high school teacher, but also invoke serious contemporary issues, with the [[Television Academy Foundation]] stating that "A season and a half before Norman Lear made "relevant" programming a dominant genre with the introduction of programs like All in the Family and Maude, Room 222 was using the form of the half-hour comedy to discuss serious contemporary issues. During its five seasons on the air, the show included episodes that dealt with such topics as racism, sexism, homophobia, dropping out of school, shoplifting, drug use among both teachers and students, illiteracy, cops in school, guns in school, Vietnam war veterans, venereal disease, and teenage pregnancy".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/shows/room-222|title=Room 222
|publisher=Television Academy Foundation:The Interviews|year=1997|accessdate=July 11, 2024}}</ref>

[[File:2017 Kennedy Center Honorees.jpg|thumb|right|Lear was among the 2017 [[Kennedy Center Honors]] recipients.]]
In 1999, President [[Bill Clinton]] awarded Lear the [[National Medal of Arts]], noting: "Norman Lear has held up a mirror to American society and changed the way we look at it."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.learcenter.org/about/norman-lear/|title=Norman Lear|work=The Norman Lear Center |publisher=[[Norman Lear Center]]|access-date=December 6, 2023|archive-date=May 19, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230519052818/https://archive.learcenter.org/about/norman-lear/|url-status=live}}</ref> That year, he and [[Bud Yorkin]] received the [[Women in Film Los Angeles|Women in Film]] [[Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards#THE LUCY AWARD|Lucy Award]] in recognition of excellence and innovation in creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wif.org/past-recipients |title=Past Recipients |publisher=Wif.org |access-date=April 22, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830035734/http://www.wif.org/past-recipients |archive-date=August 30, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=February 2017, NHMC National Hispanic Media Coalition|url=https://www.nhmc.org/february-2017-newsletter/|access-date=August 4, 2021|website=NHMC National Hispanic Media Coalition|language=en-US|archive-date=August 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804164817/https://www.nhmc.org/february-2017-newsletter/|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Producers Guild of America]] awarded Lear its Achievement Award in Television in 2006; by the next year, the honor was named the [[Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/article/the-stuart-news-pga/136376246/|title=Clint Eastwood honored by Producers Guild of America|date=November 18, 2005|page=E6|newspaper=[[The Stuart News]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|access-date=December 6, 2023|archive-date=December 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231206195632/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-stuart-news-pga/136376246/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-pga/136376326/|title=Producers list their nominees|date=January 4, 2007|last=King|first=Susan|page=E5|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|access-date=December 6, 2023|archive-date=December 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231206195554/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-pga/136376326/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2017, he was awarded the fourth annual Woody Guthrie Prize presented by the [[Woody Guthrie Center]], recognizing an artist whose work represents the spirit of Woody Guthrie "as a positive force for social change".<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Woody Guthrie Center Presents Woody Guthrie Prize Honoring Norman Lear – GRAMMY Museum|url=https://grammymuseum.org/event/the-woody-guthrie-center-presents-woody-guthrie-prize-honoring-norman-lear/|access-date=September 27, 2021|language=en-US|archive-date=September 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927101223/https://grammymuseum.org/event/the-woody-guthrie-center-presents-woody-guthrie-prize-honoring-norman-lear/|url-status=live}}</ref> He became the oldest recipient of the [[Kennedy Center Honors]] later that year at the age of 95.<ref name="USAT2023"/>

Lear's star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] is located at 6615 [[Hollywood Boulevard]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement|website=achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/|access-date=October 23, 2020|archive-date=December 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161215023909/https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/|url-status=live}}</ref> He received other numerous honorary accolades, including:<ref>{{Cite web|title=ACT III|url=https://www.normanlear.com/act-iii|access-date=September 27, 2021|website=Norman Lear|language=en-US|archive-date=September 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927104212/https://www.normanlear.com/act-iii|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/norman-lear-breaks-an-emmy-record-becomes-the-oldest-winner-ever/|title=Norman Lear Breaks an Emmy Record, Becomes the Oldest Winner Ever|first=Steve|last=Pond|date=September 15, 2019|access-date=September 23, 2019|archive-date=September 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923030127/https://www.thewrap.com/norman-lear-breaks-an-emmy-record-becomes-the-oldest-winner-ever/|url-status=live}}</ref>

* 1977: [[Peabody Awards]]: Lifetime achievement 
* 1977: [[American Humanist Association]]: Humanist Arts Award
* 1980: [[Academy of Achievement]] Golden Plate Award
* 1984: Television Academy: Hall of Fame  
* 2007: [[Britannia Awards]] Excellence in Television
* 2017: [[National Hispanic Media Coalition]] Media Icon
* 2017: [[Peabody Awards]]: Lifetime achievement