List of awards and nominations received by Oprah Winfrey

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Oprah Winfrey awards and nominations

Winfrey in 2014
Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 0 2 Daytime Emmys 20 28 Golden Globes 1 1 NAACP Awards 12 25 Primetime Emmys 1 10 Tony Awards 1 2
Totals [a]
Wins	39
Nominations	68
Note Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Oprah Winfrey.

Oprah Winfrey is a talk show host, media mogul, producer, actor and commentator. She has received various accolades including 20 Daytime Emmy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Awards, 12 NAACP Image Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Tony Award.

Winfrey started her career as a talk show host where she gained immense stardom and popularity hosting the daytime talk series The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 to 2011. She received nine Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series and seven Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host. Additionally she won seven NAACP Image Awards and four People's Choice Awards. She also hosted the self-help talk series Super Soul Sunday from 2011 to 2021 where she won three Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Special Class Series.

As an actress, she portrayed Sofia in the Steven Spielberg directed epic period film The Color Purple (1985) for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture. She produced the Ava DuVernay directed Civil Rights historical drama Selma (2014) for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. On Broadway, she produced the musical The Color Purple in 2005 and it's revival in 2016 earning the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.

Over her career she has received several honorary awards including a Special Peabody Award in 1995, the Daytime Television Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Bob Hope Humanitarian Award in 2002, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2018. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored her with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2011. President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.

Major associations

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1985	Best Supporting Actress	The Color Purple	Nominated	[1]
2011	Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award		Won	[2]
2014	Best Picture	Selma	Nominated	[3]

Emmy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Daytime Emmy Awards
1987	Outstanding Daytime Talk Show	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won	[4]
	Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won
1988	Outstanding Daytime Talk Show	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won	[5]
1989	Outstanding Daytime Talk Show	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won	[6]
1990	Outstanding Daytime Talk Show	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Nominated	[7]
1991	Outstanding Daytime Talk Show	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won	[8]
	Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won
1992	Outstanding Daytime Talk Show	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won	[9]
	Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won
1993	Outstanding Daytime Talk Show	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Nominated	[10]
	Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won
	Outstanding Children's Special	ABC Afterschool Specials	Won
1994	Outstanding Daytime Talk Show	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won	[11]
	Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won
1995	Outstanding Daytime Talk Show	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won	[12]
	Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won
1996	Outstanding Daytime Talk Show	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won	[13]
1997	Outstanding Daytime Talk Show	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won	[14]
1998	Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Nominated	[15]
	Lifetime Achievement Award		Honored
1999	Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Nominated	[15]
2011	Chairman's Crystal Pillar Award		Honored	[16]
2012	Outstanding Special Class Series	Super Soul Sunday	Won	[17]
2013	Outstanding Special Class Series	Super Soul Sunday	Nominated	[18]
2014	Outstanding Special Class Series	Super Soul Sunday	Won	[19]
2016	Outstanding Special Class Series	Super Soul Sunday	Nominated	[20]
2017	Outstanding Special Class Series	Super Soul Sunday	Won	[21]
2018	Outstanding Special Class Series	Super Soul Sunday	Nominated	[22]
2020	Outstanding Special Class Series	Super Soul Sunday	Nominated	[23]
2024	Arts And Popular Culture Program	Oprah and "The Color Purple" Journey	Won	[24]
Primetime Emmy Award
1989	Outstanding Miniseries	The Women of Brewster Place	Nominated	[25]
1994	Outstanding Informational Special	Michael Jackson Talks... To Oprah	Nominated	[26]
2000	Outstanding Made for Television Movie	Tuesdays with Morrie	Won	[27]
2002	Bob Hope Humanitarian Award		Honored	[28]
2013	Outstanding Information Special or Series	Oprah's Master Class	Nominated	[29]
2014	Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special	Running from Crazy	Nominated	[30]
2017	Outstanding Television Movie	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Nominated	[31]
2019	Outstanding Limited Series	When They See Us	Nominated	[32]
2021	Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special	Oprah with Meghan and Harry	Nominated	[33]
2023	Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series	The 1619 Project	Won	[34]
	Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special	The Light We Carry	Nominated

Golden Globe Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1986	Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture	The Color Purple	Nominated	[35]
2018	Cecil B. DeMille Award		Won	[35]

Tony Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2006	Best Musical	The Color Purple	Nominated	[36]
2016	Best Musical Revival		Won	[37]

Miscellaneous awards

Organizations	Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
Acapulco Black Film Festival	1999	Black Film Award for Best Actress	Beloved	Won
NAACP Image Award	1989	Outstanding News, Talk or Information - Series or Special	Oprah Winfrey: On Location in Forsyth County	Won
	1991	Entertainer of the Year		Won
	1992	Outstanding News, Talk or Information - Series or Special	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won
	1992	Outstanding News, Talk or Information - Series	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won
	1993	Outstanding News, Talk or Information - Series or Special	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won
	1994	Outstanding News, Talk or Information - Series or Special	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won
	1995	Outstanding News, Talk or Information - Series or Special	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won
	1996	Outstanding News, Talk or Information - Series	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won
	1998	Outstanding News, Talk or Information - Series	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won
	1998	Outstanding News, Talk or Information - Special	Dinner With Oprah: A Lifetime Exclusive - Toni Morrison	Won
	1999	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture	Beloved	Nominated
	2005	Hall of Fame		Honored
	2012	Outstanding Talk Series	Oprah's Lifeclass	Won
	2013	Outstanding Talk Series	Oprah's Lifeclass	Nominated
	2014	Outstanding News/ Information (Series or Special)	Oprah: Where Are They Now?	Nominated
		Outstanding Talk Series	Oprah's Lifeclass	Nominated
		Outstanding Talk Series	Oprah's Next Chapter	Nominated
	2015	Outstanding News/ Information (Series or Special)	Oprah's Lifeclass	Nominated
		Outstanding Talk Series	Oprah Prime	Nominated
		Outstanding Variety (Series or Special)	Oprah's Master Class	Nominated
		Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture	Selma	Nominated
	2016	Outstanding News/ Information (Series or Special)	Oprah Prime: Celebrating Dr. King and the Selma Marches 50 Years Later	Nominated
	2016	Outstanding News/ Information (Series or Special)	Oprah: Where Are They Now?	Nominated
	2017	Outstanding Talk Series	Super Soul Sunday	Nominated
People's Choice Awards	1988	Favorite Talk Show Host	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Won
	1997	Favorite Female Television Performer		Won
	1998	Favorite Female Television Performer		Won
	2004	Favorite Talk Show Host		Won
	2005	Favorite Daytime Talk Show Host		Nominated
	2006	Favorite Daytime Talk Show Host		Nominated
	2007	Favorite Talk Show Host		Nominated
	2008	Favorite Talk Show Host		Nominated
Producers Guild of America	1999	Producer of the Year	Tuesdays with Morrie	Nominated

Honorary awards

Organizations	Year	Award	Result	Ref.
Peabody Awards	1995	Personal Award	Honored	[38]
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences	1999	Lifetime Achievement Award	Honored
Jefferson Awards for Public Service	1998	S. Roger Horchow Award [a]	Honored	[39]
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences	2002	Bob Hope Humanitarian Award	Honored
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences	2011	Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award	Honored
Daytime Emmy Awards	2011	Chairman's Crystal Pillar Award	Honored	[40]
President of the United States	2013	Presidential Medal of Freedom	Honored	[41]
Hollywood Foreign Press Association	2018	Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award	Honored

See also

• List of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards#Three awards (non-competitive)

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External links

• Oprah Winfrey Awards
• Oprah Winfrey Awards at Museum.tv.