The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Mel Brooks.
Mel Brooks is an American actor, writer, director, producer, comedian, and composer. Over his 70 year career in film, theatre, and television Brooks has won an Academy Award (plus an Academy Honorary Award), four Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, and has been nominated for six Golden Globe Awards and one BAFTA Award. With his Tony wins for The Producers in 2001, he became one of only eight people (now 21) who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award. 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.
Brooks won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his satirical black comedy film The Producers (1967) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the comedy horror film Young Frankenstein (1974) and Best Original Song for the title theme to Western comedy film Blazing Saddles (1974). He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay for Blazing Saddles. Brooks has received six competitive Golden Globe Award nominations without a win. He won two Writers Guild of America Awards for Best Original Screenplay for The Producers and Blazing Saddles.
He adapted The Producers into a commercially and critically successful 2001 musical on Broadway starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. At the 55th Tony Awards he received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Original Score. Brooks also received three Drama Desk Awards, a Drama League Award, a New York Film Critics Circle Award, and two Outer Critics Circle Awards. The production transferred to the West End in London where Brooks won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical in 2005.
For his work on television he received the Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for the CBS variety special The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special (1967) and as well as three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for the NBC sitcom Mad About You in 1997, 1998, and 1999. Brooks earned three Grammy Awards; for Best Comedy Album for The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000, Best Musical Theater Album for The Producers, and Best Music Film for Recording The Producers.
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1969 Best Original Screenplay The Producers 1975 Best Adapted Screenplay Young Frankenstein Best Original Song "Blazing Saddles", Blazing Saddles 2023 Academy Honorary Award
Directed Academy Award performancesUnder Brooks' direction, these actors have received Academy Award nominations for their performances in their respective roles. +YearPerformerFilmResultAcademy Award for Best Supporting Actor1969Gene WilderThe ProducersAcademy Award for Best Supporting Actress1975Madeline KahnBlazing Saddles
BAFTA Awards British Academy Film Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1975 Best Screenplay Blazing Saddles 2017 BAFTA Fellowship
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards1956Best Comedy WritingCaesar's Hour 1957 1958 1966Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy Get Smart 1967 Outstanding Writing Achievement in Variety The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special 1997Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy SeriesMad About You 1998 1999 2012Outstanding Variety Special Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again 2013 Mel Brooks Strikes Back: With Mel Brooks and Alan Yentob 2015Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series The Comedians 2023 Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance History of the World, Part II Daytime Emmy Awards2005 Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1969 Best Screenplay The Producers 1977 Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Silent Movie 1978 High Anxiety Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy 2006 The Producers Best Original Song "There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway", The Producers
Grammy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1961Best Comedy Album 2000 Year Old Man 1962 2000 and One Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks 1964 Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival 1982 The Inquisition (Mel Brooks' History Of The World, Part I) 1999 The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 2002 Best Musical Theater Album The Producers Best Long Form Music Video Recording The Producers: A Musical Romp With Mel Brooks 2007 Best Song Written for Visual Media "There's Nothing Like A Show On Broadway", The Producers 2009 Best Musical Theater Album Young Frankenstein 2023 Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording All About Me!
Laurence Olivier Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2005 Best New Musical The Producers
Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2001 Best MusicalThe Producers Best Book of a Musical Best Original Score
Miscellaneous awards Organizations Year Category Project Result American Comedy Awards 1997Funniest Male Guest Appearance in a TV SeriesMad About You 2000 CINE#Notable CINE 1963 Golden Eagle Award The Critic Hugo Award 1975 Best Dramatic PresentationYoung Frankenstein Nebula Award 1976 Best Dramatic Writing Saturn Awards Best Director Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 1981 Worst Picture History of the World, Part I 1987 Worst Picture Spaceballs 1997Lifetime Non-Achievement Award – The Hall of Shame 2007 Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy History of the World, Part I Worst Song "The Inquisition" from History of the World, Part I Nastro d'Argento 1984 Best Foreign Actor To Be or Not to Be Writers Guild of America Awards1969 Best Written ComedyThe Producers Best Original Screenplay 1971Best Adapted Screenplay – Comedy The Twelve Chairs 1975 Young Frankenstein Best Original Screenplay – Comedy Blazing Saddles 1977 Silent Movie
Other theatre awards Organizations Year Category Project Result Drama Desk Awards2001 Outstanding MusicalThe Producers Outstanding Book of a Musical Outstanding Lyrics 2008 Young Frankenstein Drama League Awards 2001Outstanding Production of a Musical The Producers 2008 Young Frankenstein New York Drama Critics' Circles 2001 Best Musical The Producers Outer Critics Circle Awards 2001 The Producers Outstanding Broadway Musical 2008Young Frankenstein Outstanding New Broadway Musical Outstanding New Score
Honorary awards Organizations Year Notes Result American Comedy Awards 1987 Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy Writers Guild of America Awards 2003 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement Ernst Lubitsch Award 2009 Honorary Award Kennedy Center Honor Medal Hollywood Walk of Fame 2010 Motion Picture Star American Film Institute 2013 AFI Life Achievement Award British Film Institute Fellowship 2015 Inductee National Medal of Arts 2016 Medal British Academy Film Awards 2017 BAFTA Fellowship Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland) 2018 Gold Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture Academy Awards 2023 Academy Honorary Award Peabody Awards 2024 Career Peabody Award
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