This article is a list of awards and nominations received by Whoopi Goldberg.
Whoopi Goldberg is an American actress who has received many awards and nominations for her film, television, and stage work. Having acted in over 150 films, Goldberg is one of the few people to achieve the EGOT, having won the four major American awards for professional entertainers: an Emmy (Television), a Grammy (Music), an Oscar (Film), and a Tony (Theater).
Goldberg has received two Academy Award nominations, for The Color Purple and Ghost, winning for Ghost. She is the first African American to have received Academy Award nominations for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. She has received three Golden Globe nominations, winning two (Best Actress in 1986 for The Color Purple, and Best Supporting Actress in 1991 for Ghost). For Ghost, she also won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1991. In February 2002, Goldberg sent her Oscar statuette from Ghost to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be cleaned and replated. During this time, the statuette was taken from its shipping container and later retrieved by the shipping company, UPS.
She won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording in 1985 for "Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway," becoming only the second solo female performer—not part of a duo or team—at the time to receive the award, and the first African-American woman. Goldberg is one of only three single women performers to receive that award. She won a Tony Award in 2002 as a producer of the Broadway musical Thoroughly Modern Millie. She has received eight Daytime Emmy nominations, winning two. She has received nine Primetime Emmy nominations. In 2009, Goldberg won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host for her role on The View. She shared the award with her then co-hosts Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Barbara Walters.
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1986 Best Actress The Color Purple 1991 Best Supporting Actress Ghost
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result British Academy Film Awards1991 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Ghost
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards 1986 Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Moonlighting 1991 Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series A Different World 1994 Outstanding Performance in a Variety Program 66th Academy Awards 1996 68th Academy Awards Comic Relief VII 2005 Whoopi: Back to Broadway 2009 Outstanding Special Class Program 62nd Tony Awards 2014 Outstanding Documentary Special Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin' to Tell You Outstanding Narrator Daytime Emmy Awards 1989 Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special CBS Schoolbreak Special 1991 Captain Planet and the Planeteers Outstanding Children's Special Tales from the Whoop: Hot Rod Brown Class Clown 1999 Outstanding Audience Game Show Hollywood Squares 2000 2001 2002 Outstanding Special Class Special Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel 2008 Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host The View 2009 2010 2011 2014 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host News and Documentary Emmy Awards 2025 Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary Butterfly in the Sky
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1986 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama The Color Purple 1991 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Ghost 1993 Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical Sister Act
Grammy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1986 Best Comedy Album Whoopi Goldberg: Original Broadway Show Recording 1989 Fontaine: Why Am I Straight?
Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2002 Best Musical Thoroughly Modern Millie 2005 Best Special Theatrical Event Whoopi the 20th Anniversary Show 2011 Best Musical Sister Act
Miscellaneous awards Organizations Year Category Project Result Audie Awards 2010 Audiobook of the YearNelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales Multi-Voiced Performance Saturn Awards1991Best Supporting ActressGhost 1995Star Trek Generations
Other theatre awards Organizations Year Category Project Result Drama Desk Awards1985 Outstanding Solo Performance Whoopi Goldberg Outer Critics Circle Awards1985 Outstanding Debut Performance Whoopi Goldberg Theatre World Award1985 Theatre World Award Whoopi Goldberg
Honorary awards Organizations Year Notes Result Harvard University 1993 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year GLAAD Media Awards1999 GLAAD Vanguard Award Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2001 Statue Hollywood Walk of Fame 2001 Motion Picture Star US Comedy Arts Festival 2002 AFI Star Award Temple University 2013 Lew Klein Award Variety Power of Women Awards 2015 Power of Women Award Disney Legend Award 2017 Hall of Fame Inductee Essence Black Women in Hollywood 2021 Honoree Ellis Island Medal of Honor 2024 Medal
Honorary degrees Organizations Year Notes Wilson College 1987 Honorary Humanities degree Goodwin University 2018 Honorary degree (doctorate of letters)
See also Whoopi Goldberg filmography
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