GQ called him the "Commodore of Love" -- NPR said he was "The Key to Peace in the Middle East" -- Lionel Richie is a man who has seen and done it all. Richie has four Grammys, a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, the Kennedy Center Honor, and was the first recipient of the RIAA Diamond album award. Now add to that list the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress.

A cast of accomplished performers gathered to toast Lionel's career and pay tribute to an innovator who has crossed genres and spread good will around the globe.

Filmed and Edited by Brendan Kownacki
For Hollywood on the Potomac