Today, Sardi's maintains the caricature tradition. Each year Richard Baratz draws approximately 20 new portraits that are unveiled at a champagne reception attended by friends of the honoree as well as the media. Among the hundreds of recent additions are Christian Slater, Michael Douglas, Whoopi Goldberg, Charlton Heston, Brooke Shields, Nathan Lane, Dame Edna, John Stamos, Peter Gallagher, Kevin Bacon, Jason Biggs, Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Alfred Molina, Hugh Jackman, Barbara Streisand, David Hyde Pierce, Hank Azaria, Liev Schreiber, Michael Sheen, David Byrne, Harry Connick Jr., Dame Eileen Atkins, Samantha Barks, Melissa Errico, Jon Voight, Melissa Benoist, Condola Rashad, Sara Bareilles, Julie Taymor, Cynthia Erivo, Josh Groban, Ben Platt, Cate Blanchett, Bruce Willis, Christopher Jackson,
Blair Underwood, Heather Headley, Sting, Berry Gordy, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lupita Nyong’o, Bradley Cooper, Helen Mirren, Bryan Cranston and Cuba Gooding Jr. to name a few.