List of awards and nominations received by Quincy Jones

Jones in 2001

This article contains a list of awards and accolades won by and awarded to Quincy Jones .

Over his seven-decade-long career, he received numerous accolades, including 28 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. He received seven Academy Award nominations with no competitive wins. He won the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and an Academy Honorary Award.

Jones also received numerous honorary awards and honorary doctorates. He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, the National Medal of Arts in 2011 and received the French national honor of Commandeur Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the Minister of Culture in France.

Major associations

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1967	Best Original Score	In Cold Blood	Nominated	[1]
	Best Song	"The Eyes of Love" from Banning	Nominated
1968	Best Original Song for the Picture	"For Love of Ivy" from For Love Of Ivy	Nominated	[2]
1978	Best Adaptation Score	The Wiz	Nominated	[3]
1985	Best Original Score	The Color Purple	Nominated	[4]
	Best Original Song	"Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)" from The Color Purple	Nominated
	Best Picture	The Color Purple	Nominated
1995	Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award		Honored	[5]
2025	Academy Honorary Award		Honored	[6]

Emmy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Primetime Emmy Awards
1977	Outstanding Music Composition for a Series	Roots: Part 1	Won	[7]

Grammy Awards

Quincy Jones has 80 Grammy nominations and won 28 Grammy Awards, the third-most Grammys for any individual. The list below is incomplete. ^[8]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1961	Best Jazz Performance Large Group	The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones	Nominated	[9]
	Best Arrangement	"Let the Good Times Roll" (Ray Charles vocal)	Nominated	[10]
1962	Best Performance by an Orchestra - for Dancing	I Dig Dancers	Nominated	[11]
1963	Best Original Jazz Composition	"Quintessence"	Nominated	[12]
	Best Performance by an Orchestra - for Dancing	Big Band Bossa Nova	Nominated
1964	Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Large Group	Quincy Jones Plays Hip Hits	Nominated	[13]
	Best Instrumental Arrangement	"I Can't Stop Loving You"	Won
1965	Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album	Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini	Nominated	[14]
	Best Instrumental Arrangement	"Golden Boy (String Version)"	Nominated
	Best Instrumental Performance - Non-Jazz	"Golden Boy (String Version)"	Nominated
	Best Original Jazz Composition	"The Witching Hour"	Nominated
1968	Best Score from a Motion Picture or Television Show	In the Heat of the Night	Nominated	[15]
1970	Best Instrumental Arrangement	"Walking in Space"	Nominated	[16]
	Best Large Jazz Ensemble	Walking in Space	Won
	Best Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television	The Lost Man	Nominated
	Best Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television	MacKenna's Gold	Nominated
	Best Instrumental Theme	"MacKenna's Gold Overture"	Nominated
1971	Best Instrumental Arrangement	"Gula Matari"	Nominated	[17]
	Best Instrumental Composition	"Gula Matari"	Nominated
	Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album	Gula Matari	Nominated
1972	Best Pop Instrumental Performance	Smackwater Jack	Won	[18]
1973	Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media	Dollar$	Nominated	[19]
	Best Pop Instrumental Performance with Vocal Coloring	"Money Runner"	Nominated
1974	Best Instrumental Arrangement	"Summer in the City"	Won	[20]
	Best Pop Instrumental Performance	You've Got It Bad Girl	Nominated
1975	Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus	Body Heat	Nominated	[21]
1976	Best Instrumental Composition	"Midnight Soul Patrol"	Nominated	[22]
1978	Best Inspirational Performance	"O Lord, Come By Here"	Nominated	[23]
	Best Instrumental Arrangement	"Roots Mural Theme"	Nominated
	Best Instrumental Composition	"Roots Mural Theme"	Nominated
1979	Best Instrumental Arrangement	"The Wiz Main Title (Overture, Part I)"	Won	[24]
1980	Producer of the Year		Nominated	[25]
1981	Producer of the Year (Non-Classical)		Nominated	[26]
	Best Instrumental Arrangement	"Dinorah, Dinorah"	Won
1982	Album of the Year	The Dude	Nominated	[27]
	Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal	The Dude	Won
	Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)	"Ai No Corrida"	Won
	Best Arrangement on an Instrumental Recording	"Velas"	Won
	Best Pop Instrumental Performance	"Velas"	Nominated
	Producer of the Year		Won
	Best Cast Show Album	Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music	Won
1983	Producer of the Year		Nominated	[28]
1984	Album of the Year	Thriller	Won	[29]
	Record of the Year	"Beat It"	Won
	Best Rhythm & Blues Song	"P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)"	Nominated
	Best Recording for Children	E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial	Won
	Producer of the Year (Non-Classical)		Won
1985	Best Arrangements on an Instrumental	"Grace (Gymnastics Theme)"	Won	[30]
	Best Rhythm & Blues Song	"Yah Mo B There"	Nominated
1986	Album of the Year	We Are the World	Nominated	[31]
	Record of the Year	"We Are the World"	Won
	Best Pop Duo or Group Performance	"We Are the World"	Won
	Best Music Video	"We Are the World - The Video Event"	Won
1988	Album of the Year	Bad	Nominated	[32]
	Producer of the Year (Non-Classical)		Nominated
1991	Album of the Year	Back on the Block	Won	[33]
	Best Arrangement on an Instrumental	"Birdland"	Won
	Best Jazz Fusion Performance	"Birdland"	Won
	Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)	"The Places You Find Love"	Won
	Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group	"Back on the Block"	Won
	Best Pop Instrumental Performance	"Setembro (Brazilian Wedding Song)"	Nominated
	Producer of the Year		Won
1994	Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance	Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux	Won	[34]
	Best Music Video, Long Form	Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux	Nominated
1997	Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals	"Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me"	Nominated	[35]
2002	Best Spoken Word Album	Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones	Won	[36]
2019	Best Music Film	Quincy	Won	[37]
Special Grammy Awards
1989	Trustees Award		Won	[38]
1991	Legend Award		Won	[39]
1996	MusiCares Person of the Year		Won	[40]

JASRAC Awards

Year	Category	for	Result	Ref.
2025	International Prize (highest revenue in royalties in Japan)	Soul Bossa Nova	Won	[41]

Tony Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2006	Best Musical (as a producer)	The Color Purple	Nominated
2016	Best Revival of a Musical (as a producer)		Won

Special honors

Honorary awards

• In 1989, Quincy Jones was presented with the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. ^[42]
• In 1994, he was awarded the Polar Music Prize.
• On March 26, 2001, Jones was appointed Commandeur (Commander) of the Légion d'Honneur for his significant achievements in his career. ^[43]
• On June 24, 2008, at the BET Awards, Jones was presented with the Humanitarian Award.
• On October 1, 2008, Jones was presented with the Unity Through Music Award at Thank Q. ^[44]
• On December 15, 2008, Jones was inducted in the California Hall of Fame at The California Museum in Sacramento, California.
• On September 24, 2009, Jones was honored with a Clinton Global Citizen award for Leadership in Philanthropy.
• In 2013, Jones was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ^[45]
• In October 2014, Jones was made Commandeur Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the Minister of Culture in France.
• In 2015, Jones was the recipient of the Desi Arnaz Pioneer Award by the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame. ^[46]
• In May 2021, Jones was one of 10 new members elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. ^[47]
• In 2021, Jones was inducted into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, as a "foundational inductee". ^[48]
• In 2025, Jones was posthumously inducted into the National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame. ^[49]

Honorary degrees

State and academic honours for Streep

Year	Country or organization	Award	Ref.
1983	Berklee College of Music	Honorary doctorate	[50]
1990	Seattle University	Honorary degree
2005	United Negro College Fund	Evening of Stars honor
2005	Dance Music Hall of Fame	Honorary ceremony
2005	University of Pennsylvania	Honorary Doctorate of Music
2007	Morehouse College	Honorary Doctorate of humanities
2007	Harvard School of Public Health	Mentor of the Year	[51]
2007	Harvard University	"Q Prize" Gala	[51]
2007	UCLA Spring Sing	George and Ira Gershwin Award	[52]
2008	Princeton University	Honorary doctorate degree	[53]
2008	Washington University in St. Louis	Honorary Doctorate of Arts degree	[54]
2008	University of Washington	Honorary degree	[55]
2008	Garfield High School's	Quincy Jones Performing Arts Center dedication
2009	Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama	Lifetime achievement Fellow
2010	Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University	Honorary Doctorate of Music	[56] [57]

Citations

• In July 1969, Jones's arrangement of "Fly Me to the Moon" recorded by Frank Sinatra and the Count Basie Orchestra was the first music played on NASA's first lunar landing mission by astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
• In 2000, Harvard University endowed the Quincy Jones Professorship of Afro-American Music with a grant of $3 million from Time Warner. The endowed chair for African-American music, housed in Harvard's African and African-American Studies Department, is believed to be the first in the nation, and is presently held by the ethnomusicologist Ingrid Monson. Distinguished scholar and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was a close, personal friend of Jones.
• In December 2009, Jones was honored by Swiss-watch manufacturer Audemars Piguet with a limited edition watch with a case back engraved with Quincy Jones' signature, and reading "Millenary Quincy Jones – Limited Edition" as a reminder of its exclusivity. Only 500 pieces of the watch were produced. ^[58]

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