The following is a List of awards and nominations received by Mel Brooks.
Mel Brooks is an American actor, writer, director, producer, comedian, and composer. Over his 70 year career in film, theatre, and television Brooks has won an Academy Award, four Emmys, three Tony Awards, three Grammys, and has been nominated for six Golden Globes and one BAFTA Award. With his Tony wins for The Producers in 2001, he became one of only eighteen people who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award. [1] Additionally, he has received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, and a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017.
Brooks won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his satirical black comedy film The Producers (1967) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the satirical western comedy Blazing Saddles (1974) and Best Original Song for it's title theme. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay for Blazing Saddles. Brooks has received six competitive Golden Globe Award nominations without a win. He won two Writers Guild of America Awards for Best Original Screenplay for The Producers and Blazing Saddles.
He adapted The Producers into a commercially and critically successful 2001 musical on Broadway starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. At the 55th Tony Awards he received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Original Score. Brooks also received three Drama Desk Awards, a Drama League Award, a New York Film Critics Circle Award, and two Outer Critics Circle Awards. The production transferred to the West End in London where Brooks won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical in 2005.
For his work on television he received the Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for the CBS variety special The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special (1967) and as well as three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for the NBC sitcom Mad About You in 1997, 1998, and 1999. Brooks earned three Grammy Awards; for Best Comedy Album for The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 , Best Musical Theater Album for The Producers , and Best Music Film for Recording The Producers.
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1968 | Best Original Screenplay | The Producers | Won | [2] |
1974 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Young Frankenstein | Nominated | [3] |
Best Original Song | "Blazing Saddles", Blazing Saddles | Nominated |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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Daytime Emmy Awards | ||||
2005 | Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program | Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks | Nominated | [4] |
Primetime Emmy Awards | ||||
1956 | Best Comedy Writing | Caesar's Hour | Nominated | [5] |
1957 | Nominated | [6] | ||
1958 | Nominated | [7] | ||
1966 | Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy | Get Smart | Nominated | [8] |
1967 | Outstanding Writing Achievement in Variety | The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special | Won | [9] |
1997 | Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series | Mad About You | Won | [10] |
1998 | Won | [11] | ||
1999 | Won | [12] | ||
2012 | Outstanding Variety Special | Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again | Nominated | [13] |
2013 | Mel Brooks Strikes Back: With Mel Brooks and Alan Yentob | Nominated | [14] | |
2015 | Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen | Nominated | [15] | |
Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series | The Comedians | Nominated | ||
2023 | Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance | History of the World, Part II | Nominated | [16] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1961 | Best Comedy Album | 2000 Year Old Man | Nominated | [17] |
1962 | 2000 and One Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks | Nominated | [18] | |
1964 | Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival | Nominated | [19] | |
1982 | The Inquisition (Mel Brooks' History Of The World, Part I) | Nominated | [20] | |
1999 | The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 | Won | [21] | |
2002 | Best Musical Theater Album | The Producers | Won | [22] |
Best Long Form Music Video | Recording The Producers: A Musical Romp With Mel Brooks | Won | ||
2007 | Best Song Written for Visual Media | "There's Nothing Like A Show On Broadway", The Producers | Nominated | [23] |
2009 | Best Musical Theater Album | Young Frankenstein | Nominated | [24] |
2023 | Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording | All About Me! | Nominated | [25] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2001 | Best Musical | The Producers | Won | [26] |
Best Book of a Musical | Won | |||
Best Original Score | Won |
British Academy Film Awards | ||||
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Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
1975 | Best Screenplay | Blazing Saddles | Nominated | [27] |
2016 | BAFTA Fellowship | Won | [28] | |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1969 | Best Screenplay | The Producers | Nominated | [29] |
1977 | Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | Silent Movie | Nominated | [30] |
1978 | High Anxiety | Nominated | [31] | |
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nominated | [32] | ||
2006 | The Producers | Nominated | [33] | |
Best Original Song | "There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway", The Producers | Nominated | [34] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1969 | Best Written Comedy | The Producers | Nominated | |
Best Original Screenplay | Won | |||
1971 | Best Adapted Screenplay – Comedy | The Twelve Chairs | Nominated | |
1975 | Young Frankenstein | Nominated | ||
Best Original Screenplay – Comedy | Blazing Saddles | Won | ||
1977 | Silent Movie | Nominated |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2001 | Outstanding Musical | The Producers | Won | [35] |
Outstanding Book of a Musical | Won | [36] | ||
Outstanding Lyrics | Won | [37] | ||
2008 | Young Frankenstein | Nominated | [38] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2001 | Outstanding Production of a Musical | The Producers | Won | |
2008 | Young Frankenstein | Nominated | [39] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2005 | Best New Musical | The Producers | Won | [40] [41] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2001 | Best Musical | The Producers | Won | [42] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2001 | The Producers | Outstanding Broadway Musical | Won | [43] |
2008 | Young Frankenstein | Outstanding New Broadway Musical | Won | [44] |
Outstanding New Score | Nominated |
Year | Awards | Category | Result | Ref. |
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1987 | American Comedy Awards | Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy | Won | |
1997 | Stinkers Bad Movie Awards | Lifetime Non-Achievement Award – The Hall of Shame | Nominated | [45] |
2003 | Writers Guild of America Awards | Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement | Won | [46] |
2009 | Ernst Lubitsch Award | Honorary Award | Won | [47] [48] |
Kennedy Center Honor | Won | [49] | ||
2010 | Hollywood Walk of Fame | Motion Pictures | Won | [50] [51] |
2013 | American Film Institute | Life Achievement Award | Won | [52] [53] |
2015 | British Film Institute Fellowship | Won | [54] [55] | |
2016 | National Medal of Arts | Won | [56] [57] | |
2017 | BAFTA Award | Academy Fellowship | Won | [58] |
2023 | Academy Awards | Honorary Award | Won | [59] |
2024 | Peabody Award | Career Peabody Award | Won | [60] |
Year | Award | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1963 | CINE Golden Eagle Award | The Critic | Won | [61] |
1975 | Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation | Young Frankenstein | Won | [62] |
1976 | Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Writing | Won | [63] | |
Saturn Award for Best Director | Won | |||
1981 | 1981 Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Worst Picture | History of the World, Part 1 | Nominated | [64] |
1984 | Nastro d'Argento for Best Foreign Actor | To Be or Not to Be | Nominated | |
1987 | Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Worst Picture | Spaceballs | Won | [65] |
1997 | American Comedy Award for Funniest Male Guest Appearance in a TV Series | Mad About You | Won | |
2000 | Won | |||
2007 | 1981 Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy | History of the World, Part I | Won | |
1981 Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Worst Song | "The Inquisition" from History of the World, Part I | Nominated | ||
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