Barbra Streisand is an American singer, actress, songwriter and filmmaker. With a career spanning seven decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment. She has won two Academy Awards, ten Grammy Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, one Daytime Emmy Award, a Special Tony Award, three Peabody Awards and nine Golden Globe Awards, which ties her as the most-awarded artist of the Golden Globe Awards. She is one of the few entertainers who have been awarded an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony), however in non-competitive categories.
Streisand began her career by performing in nightclubs and Broadway theatres in the early 1960s. She was nominated for Tony Awards for her performances in I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1962) and Funny Girl (1964). Following her guest appearances on various television shows, she signed to Columbia Records and released her debut album, The Barbra Streisand Album (1963). It won two Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. Through the next years, she received Grammy Awards for albums People (1964) and My Name Is Barbra (1965). Her first television special, My Name Is Barbra (1965), earned her the Primetime Emmy Award and the Peabody Award. In the 1960s, Streisand ventured into film. She starred in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl (1968), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. In 1970, she won the Special Tony Award for the Star of the Decade. She received her second Academy Award acting nomination for The Way We Were (1973).
Her role in A Star Is Born (1976) earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. For "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)", she received the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and two Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year. In the 1980s, she received additional Grammy Awards for "Guilty" (1980) and The Broadway Album (1985). For her directorial debut, Yentl (1983), she became the first female winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Her second self-directed film, The Prince of Tides (1991), earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture. For the television special Barbra Streisand: The Concert (1994) she received two Primetime Emmy Awards, the Peabody Award and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety. She also received the Peabody Award for the television film Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995), the Primetime Emmy Award for the television special Barbra Streisand: Timeless (2001) and the Daytime Emmy Award for the documentary film Reel Models: The First Women of Film (2000).
She has received multiple numerous honorary accolades including Hollywood Walk of Fame (1976), Grammy Legend Award (1992), Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1995), Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (2000), AFI Life Achievement Award (2001), Kennedy Center Honors (2008), MusiCares Person of the Year (2011),, Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award (2024) and Honorary Palme d'Or (2026). She was presented with the National Medal of Arts in 2000 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015.
+Key Indicates non-competitive categories
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Work Result 1969 Best Actress Funny Girl 1974 1977 Best Original Song 1992 Best Picture 1997 Best Original Song
Actor Awards Year Category Work Result 2024 Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
American Film Institute Year Category Work Result 2001 AFI Life Achievement Award
BAFTA Awards Year Category Work Result British Academy Film Awards 1970 Best Actress in a Leading Role Funny Girl and Hello, Dolly! 1975 1978 Anthony Asquith Award for Original Film Music
Directors Guild of America Awards Year Category Work Result 1992 Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film 1995 Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety Barbra Streisand: The Concert 2002 Barbra Streisand: Timeless
Emmy Awards Year Category Work Result Daytime Emmy Awards 2001 Outstanding Special Class Special Reel Models: The First Women of Film Primetime Emmy Awards 1964 Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Music Program or Series 1965 Outstanding Individual Achievement in Entertainment – Actors and Performers My Name Is Barbra 1969 Outstanding Variety or Musical Program Barbra Streisand: A Happening In Central Park 1974 Outstanding Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music Special Barbra Streisand...and Other Musical Instruments 1995 Outstanding Made for Television Movie Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special Barbra Streisand: The Concert Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Variety or Music Program Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program 2001 Barbra Streisand: Timeless
Golden Globe Awards
Year Category Work Result 1969 Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Funny Girl 1970 Hello, Dolly! World Film Favorites 1971 Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 1974 Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama 1975 World Film Favorites 1976 Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Funny Lady 1977 A Star Is Born Best Original Song 1978 World Film Favorites 1984 Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Yentl Best Director 1988 Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nuts 1992 Best Director 1996 Best Miniseries or Television Film Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story 1997 Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Best Original Song 2000 Cecil B. DeMille Award
Grammy Awards Year Category Work Result 1964 Album of the Year Best Vocal Performance, Female Record of the Year 1965 Album of the Year People Best Vocal Performance, Female Record of the Year 1966 Album of the Year My Name Is Barbra Best Vocal Performance, Female 1967 Album of the Year Color Me Barbra Best Vocal Performance, Female 1969 Best Contemporary-Pop Vocal Performance, Female Funny Girl 1973 Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female 1977 Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance Classical Barbra 1978 Record of the Year Song of the Year Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female Best Original Score Written For a Motion Picture or a Television Special 1979 Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female 1980 Record of the Year Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus 1981 Album of the Year Guilty Record of the Year Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal 1987 Album of the Year Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female 1988 One Voice Best Performance Music Video 1992 Best Traditional Pop Performance Grammy Legend Award 1994 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance Back to Broadway Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal 1995 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 1998 Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals 2001 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Timeless: Live in Concert 2003 Christmas Memories 2004 2008 Live in Concert 2006 2011 Love Is the Answer 2012 What Matters Most 2015 Partners 2017 Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway 2019 2020 Walls 2025 Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording My Name Is Barbra 2026 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Peabody Awards Year Category Work Result 1965 Area of Excellence My Name Is Barbra 1994 Barbra Streisand: The Concert 1995 Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
Tony Awards Year Category Work Result 1962 Best Featured Actress in a Musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale 1964 Best Actress in a Musical Funny Girl 1970 Star of the Decade
Miscellaneous awards
+ Award Year Category Work Result Academy of Achievement 1992 Golden Plate AIDS Project Los Angeles 1992 Commitment to Life Award American Civil Liberties Union 1992 Bill of Rights Award American Friends of the Hebrew University 1984 Scopus Award American Guild of Variety Artists Awards 1970 Entertainer of the Year 1971 Female Singing Star of the Year 1978 1981 American Music Awards 1975 Favorite Pop/Rock Song Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist 1978 1979 1980 1981 American Society of Cinematographers 2015 Board of Directors Award American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) 1969 ASCAP Pied Piper Award 1994 ASCAP Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award Anti-Defamation League 1977 Woman of Achievement ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards 1988 Most Performed Feature Film Standards 1998 Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures ASCAP Pop Music Awards 1986 Most Performed Songs of the Last Decade 1998 Most Performed Songs Audie Awards 2025 Audiobook of the Year My Name Is Barbra Autobiography or Memoir Brit Awards 1983 Best Selling Album Love Songs CableACE Award 1986 Performance in a Music Special Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album 1987 Music Special Barbra Streisand: One Voice Performance in a Music Special 1995 Music Special Barbra Streisand: The Concert Performance in a Music Special or Series Directing a Music Special or Series Cannes Film Festival 2026 Honorary Palme d'Or Cedars-Sinai Medical Center 2011 Board of Governors Humanitarian Award CINE Golden Eagle 2001 People, Places and Events Reel Models: The First Women of Film Cue 1963 Entertainer of the Year David di Donatello 1969 Best Foreign Actress Funny Girl 1974 1984 Best Foreign Producer Yentl 1988 Best Foreign Actress Nuts Dwight D. Opperman Foundation 2023 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award Edison Awards 1964 International Vocalist 1986 Musical / Film 1988 International Vocalist Barbra Streisand: One Voice 1989 Till I Loved You 1992 International Extra Just for the Record... Elle Women in Hollywood 2011 L'Oreal Paris Legend Film Society of Lincoln Center 2013 Chaplin Award Glamour Awards 2013 Woman of the Year Lifetime Achievement Golden Apple Awards 1968 Female Star of the Year 1973 Golden Raspberry Awards 1982 Worst Actress All Night Long 1984 Worst Actor Yentl 2011 Worst Supporting Actress Little Fockers 2013 Worst Actress Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2024 Best Original Song in a TV Show/Limited Series 2015 Sherry Lansing Leadership Award Human Rights Campaign 2004 Humanitarian Award Mademoiselle 1964 MLLE Merit Award MusiCares 2011 MusiCares Person of the Year NARM Awards 1964 Best Selling Female Vocalist 1965 1966 1967 1978 Best Selling Movie Soundtrack 1979 Best Selling Album by a Female Artist Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits Volume 2 1988 Chairman's Award For Sustained Creative Achievement Nastro d'Argento 1984 Best Foreign Actress Yentl Best New Foreign Director National Association of Theatre Owners 1968 Star of Stars National Organization for Women 1984 Woman of Courage Award People's Choice Awards 1975 Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer Favorite Female Music Performer Favorite Motion Picture Actress 1976 1977 1978 1980 Favorite Theme/Song from a Motion Picture 1981 Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer Favourite Female Musical Performer 1984 Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer Favorite Motion Picture Actress 1985 Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer 1986 1987 Favourite Female Musical Performer 1988 Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer Favourite All-Time Musical Star 1989 Favourite Female Musical Performer Pollstar Awards 1994 Major Tour of the Year Barbra Streisand in Concert Rainbow/PUSH 2001 Liberty and Justice Award Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 1980 Worst Actress Worst On-Screen Couple Telegatto 1977 Telegatto UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability 2019 Hollywood for Science Gala Women Film Critics Circle 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award Women in Film Honors 1984 Crystal Award
State honors