Former President Barack Obama gave Dylan the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
"There is not a bigger giant in the history of American music," Obama said during the ceremony. "All these years later, he’s still chasing that sound and still searching for a little bit of truth, and I have to say I am a really big fan."
The first songwriter to receive such a distinction, Dylan was named the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," according to the Swedish Academy.
Dylan has performed regularly even as he’s aged, so much so that fans have joked he’s been on the "Never-Ending Tour" since the late 1980s.