Cher is an American singer and actress whose distinguished career spans music, film, fashion, and television, and has received numerous awards and honors for her creative achievements and longstanding commitment to humanitarian causes. She has won one Academy Award, two Grammy Awards, one Primetime Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Cher received numerous honorary accolades, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (as a part of Sonny & Cher) in 1998, GLAAD Vanguard Award in 1998, World Music Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Music Industry in 1999, Billboard Icon Award in 2017. In 2018, she was presented with Kennedy Center Honor, and iHeartRadio Icon Award in 2024.
In 2024, Cher was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and has received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2026.
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Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominee / work Result 1984 Best Supporting Actress Silkwood 1988 Best Actress Moonstruck
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominee / work Result British Academy Film Awards 1985 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Silkwood 1989 Best Actress in a Leading Role Moonstruck
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominee / work Result News and Documentary Emmy Awards 2018 Outstanding Short Documentary Edith+Eddie Primetime Emmy Awards 1972 Outstanding Variety Series – Musical The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour Outstanding Single Program – Variety or Musical – Variety and Popular Music 1973 Outstanding Variety Musical Series 1974 Outstanding Music-Variety Series 1975 Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Series Cher 2000 Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program Cher: Live in Concert – From the MGM Grand in Las Vegas 2003 Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special Cher: The Farewell Tour
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominee / work Result 1974 Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour 1983 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean 1984 Silkwood 1986 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Mask 1988 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Moonstruck 1997 Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film If These Walls Could Talk
Grammy Awards Year Category Nominee / work Result 1966 Best New Artist Sonny & Cher 1972 Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus 2000 Best Pop Vocal Album Believe Record of the Year Best Dance Recording 2004 2026 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Cher
Satellite Awards Year Category Nominee / work Result 1997 Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film If These Walls Could Talk 2010 Best Original Song 2018
Miscellaneous awards
+ Award Year Category Nominee / work Result Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2010 Perseverance Award Cher Amadeus Austrian Music Awards 2000 International Solo Pop/Rock Artist Cher American Comedy Awards 1988 Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) Moonstruck American Guild of Variety Artists Awards 1972 Musical Group Sonny & Cher 1973 Vocal Act of the Year American Music Awards 2000 Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist Cher 2003 Michael Jackson International Artist of the Year amfAR 2015 Award of Inspiration Cher Anděl Awards 1999 Special Award Cher Armenian Music Awards 2008 Legend Award Cher 2014 Legend Award ARTISTdirect Online Music Awards 1999 Favorite Female Artist Cher 2000 Favorite Tattooed Artist Attitude Awards 2013 Legend Award Cher Audie Awards 2026 Autobiography/Memoir Cher: The Memoir, Part One Bambi Awards 2001 International Pop Cher 2025 Legend Award Best of Las Vegas Awards 2010 Best All-Around Performer Cher 2011 Best Singer BDS Certified Spin Awards 2002 400,000 Spins Billboard Music Awards 1999 Hot 100 Single of the Year Top Female Artist CherFemale Hot 100 Artist of the Year 2002 Dance/Club Play Artist of the Year Artist Achievement Award 2017 Billboard Icon Award Billboard Music Video Awards 1999 Dance: Best Clip Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 2000 Favorite Female Artist – Pop Believe Favorite Single (Internet Only) BMI London Awards 2013 4 Million Performance Award Bravo Otto (Germany) 1966 Best Group Sonny & Cher 1967 1972 Female Singer - Pop Cher 1988 Best Actress 1991 Female Singer - Pop 1992 British LGBT Awards 2016 Global Icon Cher Broadway World Las Vegas Awards 2011 Best Resident Show Cher CableACE Awards 1983 Actress in a Variety Program Cher... A Celebration at Caesars California Music Awards 2000 Outstanding Female Vocalist Cher Cannes Film Festival 1985 Best Actress Mask Capital Gold Legends Awards 2003 Legendary Female Cher CFDA Fashion Awards 1999 Influence on Fashion Award Cher Chita Rivera Awards 2019 Ambassador for the Arts Award Cher CinEuphoria Awards 2020 Career Award Cher Critics' Choice Documentary Awards 2017 Best Song in a Documentary Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2011 Best Song Dallas Times Herald 1972 Special Award Sonny & Cher Danish Music Awards 1999 Foreign Hit of the Year David di Donatello 1988 Best Foreign Actress Moonstruck Drama League Awards 2019 Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical Echo 1992 International Female Artist Cher 1993 International Rock/Pop Female Artist 2000 Believe Expodisc 1973 Superstar Award Cher Fragrance Foundation Awards 2020 Consumer Choice – Women's Popular Cher Eau de Couture Girls’ Choice Awards 2019 Girls' Choice Music Icon Cher GLAAD Media Awards 1998 GLAAD Vanguard Award Cher Glamour Women of the Year Awards 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award Cher Golden Apple Awards 1988 Female Star of the Year Cher Golden Raspberry Awards 2011 Worst Supporting Actress Burlesque Goodreads Choice Awards 2025 Readers' Favorite Memoir Cher: The Memoir, Part One Hasty Pudding Theatricals 1985 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Cher HitAwards 1999 International Female Artist of the Year Cher Hit of the Year Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2017 Best Original Song in a Documentary Hungarian Music Awards 2000 International Pop Album of the Year Believe iHeartRadio Music Awards 2024 iHeartRadio Icon Award Cher 2025 Favorite Surprise Guest Cher International Dance Music Awards 1999 Best Hi NRG 12" Best Pop 12" Dance Record IDA Documentary Awards 2017 Best Documentary Short Edith+Eddie IRMA Music Awards 1992 International Female Artist Cher iVillage Entertainment Awards 2011 Most Welcome Celebrity Comeback Cher Japan Gold Disc Awards 2012 Burlesque Soundtrack of the Year Kansas City Film Critics Circle 1987 Best Actress Moonstruck Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center 2020 Spirit of Katharine Hepburn Award Cher KRLA Beat International Pop Music Awards 1966 Female Vocalist Cher New Female Vocalist Duo Sonny & Cher LA Music Awards 1992 Artist of the Year Cher Best Female Rock Vocalist Best Female Pop Vocalist Lab School of Washington 1985 Outstanding Learning Disabled Achiever Award Cher Ladies' Home Journal Poll Awards 1988 Star of the Year Cher Las Vegas Awards 1980 Female Musical Star Cher Las Vegas Entertainment Awards 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award Cher Las Vegas Magazine Awards 1981 Female Performer of the Year Cher The Laurel Foundation 2022 Youth Empowerment Award Cher Los 40 Music Awards 2010 Los Premios 40 Honorary Award Cher Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1982 Best Supporting Actress Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean 1983 Silkwood Lunas del Auditorio 2005 Best Foreign Language Pop Artist Cher Melody Maker Pop Poll Awards 1967 International: Girl Singer Cher MTV Australia Awards 2005 VH1 Music First Award Cher MTV Video Music Awards 1988 Best Female Video 1999 Best Dance Video Music & Media Year-End Awards 1991 Top 3 Female Artists (Albums) Cher Top 3 Female Artists (Singles) 1999 Top 10 Artists (Albums) Top 10 Artists (Singles) Top 10 Female Artists (Albums) Top 10 Female Artists (Singles) 2000Top 10 Female Artists (Albums) Music Control 1999 Music Control Airplay Award Cher Music Operators of America Awards 1972 Artists of the Year Sonny & Cher NARM Awards 1966 Most Promising Female Vocalist Cher Best Selling American Vocal Group Sonny & Cher 1967 Most Promising Female Vocalist Cher 1973 Female Artist Cher Nastro d'Argento 1988 Best Foreign Actress Moonstruck National Society of Film Critics 1983 Best Supporting Actress Silkwood New Mexico Film Critics Awards 2017 Best Original Song New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2022 Documentary Cher and the Loneliest Elephant New York Film Critics Circle 1983 Best Supporting Actress Silkwood NRJ Music Awards 2000 International Female Artist of the Year Cher International Song of the Year Best Concert of the Year Do You Believe? Best Music Website of the Year Cher O Music Awards 2011 Must Follow Artist On Twitter Cher OFTA Awards 1997 Best Direction of a Motion Picture or Miniseries If These Walls Could Talk 2000 Best Host or Performer of a Variety, Musical, or Comedy Special Cher Best Variety, Musical, or Comedy Special Cher: Live in Concert – From the MGM Grand in Las Vegas 2018 Best Adapted Song "Fernando" People's Choice Awards 1976 Favorite Female Television Performer Cher Favorite All Around Female Entertainer 1988 Favorite Motion Picture Actress 1989 Favorite All-Around Female Star 1990 Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer 1991 2019 Favorite Concert Tour Here We Go Again Tour Pollstar Awards 2000 Most Creative Stage Production Do You Believe? 2003 Living Proof: The Farewell Tour 2004 Major Tour of the Year Premios Amigo 1999 Best International Solo Artist Cher Best International Album Believe Premios Ondas 2001 Special Award for Musical Career Cher Queerty Awards 2019 Badass Cher Queer Anthem "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" 1998 Rennbahn Express 1992 Female Singer of the Year Cher 1999 Rockbjörnen 1998 Foreign Song of the Year Shidurei Israel Radio Awards 1975 Girl Singer Cher Shorty Awards 2016 Singer Cher 2017 Celebrity Teen Choice Awards 1999 Single of the Year US Magazine Annual Readers' Awards 1982 Favorite Variety Star of the Year Cher 1988 Sexiest Female Star of the Year Video Awards 1992 Best How-to Instructional CherFitness: A New Attitude 1993 CherFitness: Body Confidence VSDA Awards 1992 Health and Fitness Homer CherFitness: A New Attitude White Party Palm Springs 2014 Icon Award: Artist Cher WLS Radio's Hit Parade Awards 1968 Best Female Cher Best Duet Sonny & Cher Women in Film Honors 2000 Lucy Award If These Walls Could Talk Women's Image Network Awards 2013 Documentary Film Dear Mom, Love Cher Show Produced by a Woman World Awards 2004 World Arts Award Cher World Music Awards 1999 Outstanding Contribution to the Music Industry Cher 2014 World's Best Female Artist World's Best Live Act World's Best Entertainer of the Year World's Best Album Closer to the Truth World's Best Song World's Best Video World Soundtrack Awards 2011 Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film XM Nation Music Awards 2005 Most Likely to Have Another "Final" Tour Cher Your Choice For The Film Awards 1986 Best Actress Mask Žebřík Music Awards 1993 Singer Cher Expand Kompletní výsledky.
Honors Organization Year Honoree / work Equal Justice Now Honors 2024 Cher Grammy Hall of Fame 2017 Grauman's Chinese Theatre Ceremony 2010 Cher Hollywood Walk of Fame 1998 Sonny & Cher Kennedy Center Honors 2018 Cher Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2024 Cher
See also Cher albums discography Cher singles discography List of songs recorded by Cher Cher filmography Cher videography EGOT List of actors with Academy Award nominations List of actors with more than one Academy Award nomination in the acting categories
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References
External links Awards and nominations for Cher on the Internet Movie Database