Filmmaker Steven Spielberg, composer Stephen Sondheim, violinist and conductor Itzhak Perlman and baseball great Willie Mays were among a number of notables presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama on Tuesday.

Singer and actress Barbra Streisand, NASA mathematician Katherine G. Johnson, Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski also received the award.

Obama said of Streisand, “She has collected just about every honor and award that there is — I couldn’t believe she hadn’t gotten this one.”

New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra, who died in September at the age of 90, was be awarded the medal posthumously.

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