In December 20, 2000, President Bill Clinton conferred the National Medal of Arts on Mr. Foote & noted that his six-decade-long, award-winning career established him when a united states's virtually all prolific writer for stage, film, & television. Clinton mentioned Foote's numbers of awards including deuce Academy Awards, an Emmy, a Burkey Award & a Screen Laurel Award from either a Writers Guild of America, a Lucille Lortel Award, & his induction into each a Theatre Hall of Fame & the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Prior to placing a medallion in Foote's neck, a President discovered: "Believe it or not, the great writer Horton Foote got his education at Wharton-but not at the Wharton Business School. He grew up in the small town of Wharton, Texas. His work is rooted in the tales, the troubles, the heartbreak, and the hopes of all he heard and saw there. As a young man, he left Wharton to become an actor and soon discovered the easiest way to get good roles was to write the plays yourself. And he hasn't stopped since. Among other things, he did a magnificent job of adapting Harper Lee's classic To Kill A Mockingbird for the silver screen, and writing his wonderful The_Trip_to_Bountiful and so many other tales of family, community, and the triumph of the human spirit. Today, we honor him for his lifetime of artistic achievement and excellence."

Forgoing wonder, Horton Foote has enriched Our contries literature using his unique genre & his true examinations of the mortal problem. Besides the award works already utilized, he has written a score of notable plays, teleplays, & films like A Chase, A Road Lady, A Habitation of Dragons, Nighttime Seasons, A Roads to Personal, Tomorrow, A Orphans Front yard Period, Talking Pictures, Dividing a Estate, Of Mice & Men, Alone, Vernon Early, Laura Dennis, & The Young Man From Atlanta (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize), to name single two or three.

In the spring of 2004, the Baylor University Department of Theatre Arts sponsored a 1st Horton Foote Western Playwrights Festival, the semi-biyearly celebration of Western Playwrighting, honoring the festival namesake. Mr. Foote wwhen honored as a number one recipient of the Horton Foote Our contries Playwrighting Award.