This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Bill Cosby.
Bill Cosby is an American comedian who received various awards for his work on film and television and for his comedy albums. He received 19 Grammy Award nominations winning 8 awards including six consecutive awards for Best Comedy Album from 1965 to 1970. He received another 2 Grammys for Grammy Award for Best Children's Album for Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs (1972), and The Electric Company (1973). He also received nine Primetime Emmy Award nominations, receiving three consecutive awards for his leading performance in the drama series I Spy (1966-1968) becoming the first African American actor to do so. He also won for The Bill Cosby Special (1969), and received the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award in 2003. He also was nominated for five Daytime Emmy Awards winning twice for Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1981), and 'Little Bill (2004). He received five Golden Globe Award nominations winning twice for Best Actor in a Comedy Series for The Cosby Show (1984, 1985).
Cosby also received numerous awards and special honors including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002. However, due to the widespread allegations of sexual assault Cosby has been stripped of various honorary degrees and awards including the Kennedy Center Honors (1998, rescinded in 2018) and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (2009, also rescinded in 2018). In 2018, Cosby was also expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences along with Harvey Weinstein and Roman Polanski due to their breach of the academy's standards of conduct.
Major associations Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards1966 Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series I Spy rowspan=4 1967 1968 1969 Outstanding Variety Special The Bill Cosby Special 1970 Outstanding Comedy Series The Bill Cosby Show rowspan=4 Outstanding New Series Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series Outstanding Variety Special The Second Bill Cosby Special 2003 Bob Hope Humanitarian Award Daytime Emmy Awards1975 Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming Highlights of Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus 1981 Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids 1986 Outstanding Children's Animated Program rowspan=2 2002 Outstanding Special Class Animated Program Little Bill 2004 Outstanding Children's Animated Program
Grammy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1964 Best Comedy Album Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow...Right! 1965 I Started Out as a Child 1966 Why Is There Air? 1967 Wonderfulness 1968 Revenge 1969 To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With 1970 Sports, a.k.a. Bill Cosby 1971 Live: Madison Square Garden Center Best Spoken Word Album Grover Henson Feels Forgotten 1972 Best Comedy Album When I Was a Kid Best Children's Album Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs 1973 The Electric Company 1973 Best Comedy Album Fat Albert 1976 Bill Cosby Is Not Himself These Days 1984 Bill Cosby: Himself 1987 Those of You with or Without Children, You'll Understand Best Spoken Word Album Hardheaded Boys
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1967 Best TV Star - Male I Spy rowspan=2 1973 Best Actor - Musical or Comedy Series The New Bill Cosby Show 1985 The Cosby Show rowspan=2 1986 1987
Honorary awards 1984: He was inducted into the Temple University Athletics Hall of Fame. 2002: Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George W. Bush 2002: The scholar Molefi Kete Asante included Cosby in his book The 100 Greatest African Americans. 2005: In a British poll broadcast on Channel 4 to find the Comedian's Comedian, he was voted among the top fifty comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. 2010: Received the Lone Sailor Award by the United States Navy Memorial. 2010: Received the National Football Foundation's Gold Medal
Honorary degrees
Cosby was awarded 72 honorary degrees and many other honors since 1985. 62 of these were revoked after he was accused of sexual offenses or after his conviction for sexual assault.
Rescinded awards Rescinded awards due to convictions and allegations of sexual assault: 2011: Received Honorary Chief Petty Officer from U.S. Navy. Revoked December 4, 2014. 2009: Received the Marian Anderson Award. Rescinded May 3, 2018. 1998: Received the Kennedy Center Honor. Rescinded May 7, 2018. 2009: Presented with the 12th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Rescinded May 7, 2018. 2002: Received the TCA Career Achievement Award. Rescinded September 25, 2018. May 3, 2018, Cosby was expelled as a member of the Actors Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 1982: He won the Theodore Roosevelt Award as a Member of Temple University football. Rescinded in 2018.
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