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. For her work as Gloria Gaines in The Butler (2013), she received British Academy Film Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role nominations. 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 its 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 1985 Best Supporting Actress The Color Purple 2011Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award 2014 Best Picture Selma British Academy Film Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2014 Best Actress in a Supporting Role The Butler
Critics' Choice Movie Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2014 Best Supporting Actress The Butler
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Daytime Emmy Awards 1987 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host The Oprah Winfrey Show 1988 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show 1989 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show 1990 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show 1991 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host The Oprah Winfrey Show 1992 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host The Oprah Winfrey Show 1993 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host The Oprah Winfrey Show Outstanding Children's Special ABC Afterschool Specials 1994 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host The Oprah Winfrey Show 1995 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host The Oprah Winfrey Show 1996 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show 1997 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show 1998 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host The Oprah Winfrey Show Lifetime Achievement Award 1999 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host The Oprah Winfrey Show 2011Chairman's Crystal Pillar Award 2012 Outstanding Special Class Series Super Soul Sunday 2013 Outstanding Special Class Series Super Soul Sunday 2014 Outstanding Special Class Series Super Soul Sunday 2016 Outstanding Special Class Series Super Soul Sunday 2017 Outstanding Special Class Series Super Soul Sunday 2018 Outstanding Special Class Series Super Soul Sunday 2020 Outstanding Special Class Series Super Soul Sunday 2024 Arts And Popular Culture Program Oprah and "The Color Purple" Journey Primetime Emmy Award 1989 Outstanding Miniseries The Women of Brewster Place 1994 Outstanding Informational Special Michael Jackson Talks... To Oprah 2000 Outstanding Made for Television Movie Tuesdays with Morrie 2002Bob Hope Humanitarian Award 2013 Outstanding Information Special or Series Oprah's Master Class 2014 Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special Running from Crazy 2017 Outstanding Television Movie The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2019 Outstanding Limited Series When They See Us 2021 Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special Oprah with Meghan and Harry 2023 Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series The 1619 Project Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special The Light We Carry
Golden Globe Award Year Category Nominated work Result 1986 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture The Color Purple 2018Cecil B. DeMille Award Screen Actors Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2014 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role The Butler
Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2006 Best Musical The Color Purple 2016 Best Musical Revival
Miscellaneous awards
Organizations Year Category Work Result Acapulco Black Film Festival 1999 Black Film Award for Best Actress Beloved NAACP Image Award 1989 Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Series or Special Oprah Winfrey: On Location in Forsyth County 1991Entertainer of the Year 1992 Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Series or Special The Oprah Winfrey Show 1992 Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Series The Oprah Winfrey Show 1993 Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Series or Special The Oprah Winfrey Show 1994 Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Series or Special The Oprah Winfrey Show 1995 Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Series or Special The Oprah Winfrey Show 1996 Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Series The Oprah Winfrey Show 1998 Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Series The Oprah Winfrey Show 1998 Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Special Dinner With Oprah: A Lifetime Exclusive – Toni Morrison 1999 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture Beloved 2005 Hall of Fame 2012 Outstanding Talk Series Oprah's Lifeclass 2013 Outstanding Talk Series Oprah's Lifeclass 2014 Outstanding News/ Information (Series or Special) Oprah: Where Are They Now? Outstanding Talk Series Oprah's Lifeclass Outstanding Talk Series Oprah's Next Chapter 2015 Outstanding News/ Information (Series or Special) Oprah's Lifeclass Outstanding Talk Series Oprah Prime Outstanding Variety (Series or Special) Oprah's Master Class Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Selma 2016 Outstanding News/ Information (Series or Special) Oprah Prime: Celebrating Dr. King and the Selma Marches 50 Years Later 2016 Outstanding News/ Information (Series or Special) Oprah: Where Are They Now? 2017 Outstanding Talk Series Super Soul Sunday People's Choice Awards 1988 Favorite Talk Show Host The Oprah Winfrey Show 1997 Favorite Female Television Performer 1998 Favorite Female Television Performer 2004 Favorite Talk Show Host 2005 Favorite Daytime Talk Show Host 2006 Favorite Daytime Talk Show Host 2007 Favorite Talk Show Host 2008 Favorite Talk Show Host Producers Guild of America 1999 Producer of the Year Tuesdays with Morrie Woman of the Year 2019 In 2019, Time created 89 new covers to celebrate women of the year starting from 1920; it chose Oprah for 2004.
Honorary awards Organizations Year Award Result Peabody Awards 1995 Personal Award List of Peabody Award winners (1990-1999) National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award Jefferson Awards for Public Service 1998 S. Roger Horchow Award Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 2002 Bob Hope Humanitarian Award Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 2011 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Daytime Emmy Awards 2011Chairman's Crystal Pillar Award President of the United States 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom Hollywood Foreign Press Association 2018 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award
See also
List of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards#Three awards (non-competitive)
References
External links
Oprah Winfrey Awards Oprah Winfrey Awards at Museum.tv.