Stewart received numerous honorary awards, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1965, the Life Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1969, the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 1980, and the Honorary Golden Berlin Bear Award in 1982. He was awarded the John F. Kennedy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1983, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award in 1985. Also that year he received an honorary Academy Award for his fifty years of memorable performances in over 80 films. Stewart was the author of a slightly tongue-in-cheek book of poetry, Jimmy Stewart and His Poems, published in 1989. He married Gloria Hatrick McLean in August 1949, and together they had twin daughters, July and Kelly. Stewart was stepfather to two sons, Ronald and Michael, from McLean’s previous marriage. Ronald died during combat in the Vietnam War. The Stewarts celebrated 45 years of marriage before Gloria’s death in 1994. Said to be heartbroken by the loss of his wife, Stewart died on July 2, 1997, in Los Angeles, California of a lung embolism. He continues to be remembered as one of the most admired and beloved actors in the history of American cinema. .