List of awards and nominations received by Mel Brooks

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Mel Brooks awards and nominations
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Brooks receiving a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame on April 23, 2010
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Awards won27
Nominations62

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by American actor, writer, director, producer, comedian, and composer Mel Brooks.

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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.

Major associations

Academy Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1969 Best Original Screenplay The Producers Won [2]
1975 Best Adapted Screenplay Young Frankenstein Nominated [3]
Best Original Song "Blazing Saddles", Blazing Saddles Nominated

Emmy Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
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
1958 Nominated
1966 Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy Get Smart Nominated
1967 Outstanding Writing Achievement in Variety The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special Won
1997 Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Mad About You Won
1998 Won
1999 Won
2012 Outstanding Variety Special Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together AgainNominated
2013 Mel Brooks Strikes Back: With Mel Brooks and Alan YentobNominated
2015 Mel Brooks: Live at the GeffenNominated
Outstanding Writing for a Variety SpecialNominated
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series The Comedians Nominated
2023 Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance History of the World, Part II Nominated

Grammy Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1961 Best Comedy Album 2000 Year Old Man Nominated [6]
1962 2000 and One Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks Nominated
1964 Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival Nominated
1982 The Inquisition (Mel Brooks' History Of The World, Part I)Nominated
1999 The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 Won
2002 Best Musical Theater Album The Producers Won
Best Long Form Music Video Recording The Producers: A Musical Romp With Mel BrooksWon
2007 Best Song Written for Visual Media "There's Nothing Like A Show On Broadway", The Producers Nominated
2009 Best Musical Theater Album Young Frankenstein Nominated
2023 Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording All About Me!Nominated [7]

Tony Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2001 Best Musical The Producers Won [8]
Best Book of a Musical Won
Best Original Score Won

Industry awards

British Academy Film Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1975 Best Screenplay Blazing SaddlesNominated [9]
2016 BAFTA Fellowship Won

Golden Globe Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1969 Best Screenplay The Producers Nominated [10]
1977 Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Silent Movie Nominated [11]
1978 High Anxiety Nominated [12]
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Nominated [13]
2006 The Producers Nominated [14]
Best Original Song "There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway", The ProducersNominated [15]

Writers Guild of America Awards

YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
1969 The Producers Best Written ComedyNominated
Best Original ScreenplayWon
1971 The Twelve Chairs Best Adapted Screenplay – Comedy Nominated
1975 Young FrankensteinNominated
Blazing Saddles Best Original Screenplay – Comedy Won
1977 Silent MovieNominated

Theatre

Drama Desk Awards

YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
2001The Producers Outstanding Musical Won [16]
Outstanding Book of a Musical Won [17]
Outstanding Lyrics Won [18]
2008 Young Frankenstein Nominated [19]

Drama League Awards

YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
2001The ProducersOutstanding Production of a MusicalWon
2008Young FrankensteinNominated [20]

Laurence Olivier Awards

YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
2005 The Producers Best New Musical Won [21] [22]

New York Drama Critics' Circles

YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
2001The ProducersBest MusicalWon [23]

Outer Critics Circle Awards

YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
2001The ProducersOutstanding Broadway MusicalWon [24]
2008Young FrankensteinOutstanding New Broadway MusicalWon [25]
Outstanding New ScoreNominated

Special awards and honors

YearAwardsCategoryResultRef.
1987 American Comedy Awards Lifetime Achievement Award in ComedyWon
1997 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards Lifetime Non-Achievement Award – The Hall of ShameNominated [26]
2003 Writers Guild of America Awards Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement Won [27]
2009Ernst Lubitsch AwardHonorary AwardWon [28] [29]
Kennedy Center Honor Won [30]
2010 Hollywood Walk of Fame Motion PicturesWon [31] [32]
2013 American Film Institute Life Achievement AwardWon [33] [34]
2015 British Film Institute Fellowship Won [35] [36]
2016 National Medal of Arts Won [37] [38]
2017 BAFTA Award Academy Fellowship Won [39]
2023 Academy Awards Honorary Award Won [40]

Miscellaneous awards

YearAwardNominated workResultRef.
1963 CINE Golden Eagle Award The Critic Won [41]
1975 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation Young FrankensteinWon [42]
1976 Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Writing Won [43]
Saturn Award for Best Director Won
1981 1981 Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Worst Picture History of the World, Part 1 Nominated [44]
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 [45]
1997 American Comedy Award for Funniest Male Guest Appearance in a TV SeriesMad About YouWon
2000Won
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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