+ The Simpsons were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Simpsons Award WonAmerican Comedy Awards 1Annie Awards 34Australian Kids' Choice Awards 5British Comedy Awards 3Primetime Emmy Award 37Environmental Media Awards 9Genesis Awards 6GLAAD Media Awards 1Golden Reel Awards 1Hollywood Walk of Fame AwardedInternational Monitor Awards 9Kids' Choice Awards 2Peabody Awards 2People's Choice Awards 7Satellite Awards 1Saturn Awards 1TCA Awards 2Teen Choice Awards 5UK Kids' Choice Awards 1WGA Awards 13Young Artist Awards 1 The Simpsons MovieBritish Comedy Awards 1Golden Trailer Awards 1UK Kids' Choice Awards 1National Movie Awards 1 Total awards won The Simpsons 120+ The Simpsons Movie 4Guinness World Records3Footnotes
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom that debuted on December 17, 1989, on the Fox network. The show is the longest-running prime time scripted television series in the United States. It has won many different awards, including 36 Emmy awards, 34 Annie Awards, nine Environmental Media Awards, twelve Writers Guild of America Awards, six Genesis Awards, eight People's Choice Awards, three British Comedy Awards, among other awards. Episodes of the show have won 12 Emmys in the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming less than One Hour) category. However, The Simpsons has never been nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series, although the show was submitted in the category in 1993 and 1994. James L. Brooks, an executive producer on the show, won twelve Emmys for The Simpsons as well as ten for other shows and holds the record for most Primetime Emmys won by a single person, with 22, The Simpsons was the first animated series to be given a Peabody Award, won a second Peabody in 2020, and in 2000 the Simpson family was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. As of 2022, The Simpsons have received a total of 100 Emmy nominations.
The Simpsons Movie, released in 2007, was nominated for several major awards, including a Golden Globe Award, while The Longest Daycare, a short film released in 2012, became the franchise's first production to be nominated for an Academy Award.
The Simpsons also holds two world records from the Guinness World Records: Longest-Running Primetime Animated Television Series and Most Guest Stars Featured in a Television Series.
Awards for The Simpsons Annie Awards First awarded in 1972, the Annie Awards are given exclusively to animated programs. The Simpsons has won 34 Annies, including 12 straight in the Best Animated Television Production category and winning in 2015 and 2016 for Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production.
Year Category Nominee Result 1992 Best Animated Television Program 1993 Best Animated Television Program 1994 Best Animated Television Program Best Individual Achievement for Creative Supervision in the Field of Animation David Silverman 1995 Best Animated Television Program Voice Acting in the Field of Animation Nancy Cartwright 1996 Best Animated Television Program 1997 Best Animated Television Program Best Directing in a TV Production Mike B. Anderson Best Music in a TV Production Alf Clausen Best Producing in a TV Production Al Jean & Mike Reiss Best Voice Acting by a Female Performer in a TV Production Maggie Roswell 1998 Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Primetime Program Outstanding Music in an Animated Television Production Alf Clausen & Ken Keelerfor "You're Checkin' In" Outstanding Directing in an Animated Television Production Jim Reardon 1999 Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Television Program Outstanding Writing in an Animated Television Production Tim Long, Larry Doyle and Matt Selman 2000 Outstanding Achievement in a Primetime Animated Television Program Outstanding Music in an Animated Television Production Alf Clausen 2001 Outstanding Achievement in a Primetime Animated Television Program Outstanding Writing in an Animated Television Production Al Jean 2002 Best Animated Television Production 2003 Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Television Production Best Directing in an Animated Television Production Steven Dean Moore Best Music in an Animated Television Production Alf Clausen, Ken Keeler and Ian Maxtone-Graham Best Writing in an Animated Television Production Matt Warburton 2006 Best Writing in an Animated Television Production Ian Maxtone-Graham 2007 Best Music in an Animated Television Production Alf Clausen & Michael Price Best Writing in an Animated Television Production Ian Maxtone-Graham & Billy Kimball 2008Best Animated Television ProductionBest Directing in an Animated Television Production Bob AndersonBest Writing in an Animated Television ProductionJoel H. Cohen 2009Best Animated Television ProductionBest Writing in an Animated Television ProductionDaniel Chun Best Writing in an Animated Television ProductionValentina L. GarzaBest Writing in an Animated Television ProductionIan Maxtone-Graham & Billy Kimball2010Best Animated Television ProductionDirecting in a Television Production Bob AndersonMusic in a Television ProductionTim Long, Alf Clausen, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine ClementWriting in a Television Production John Frink2011Best General Audience Animated TV Production Directing in a Television Production Matthew Nastuk Writing in a Television Production Carolyn Omine2012Best Animated Short SubjectBill Plympton Couch GagMusic in an Animated Television or other Broadcast Venue Production Alf ClausenProduction Design in an Animated Television or other Broadcast Venue Production Lynna Blankenship, Sean Coons, Hugh Macdonald, Debbie Peterson, Charles Ragins, Lance Wilder, Darrel Bowen, John Krause, Kevin Moore, Brent M. Bowen, Brice Mallier, Steven Fahey, Dima Malanitchev, Karen Bauer, Eli Balser and Anne LeggeWriting in an Animated Television or other Broadcast Venue Production Ian Maxtone-Graham and Billy KimballWriting in an Animated Television or other Broadcast Venue Production Stephanie Gillis2013Production Design in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionLynna Blankenship, Dima Malanitchev, Debbie Peterson, Charles Ragins, Jefferson R. WeekleyStoryboarding in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionGuillermo del Toro, Guy Davis, Ralph SosaWriting in an Animated TV/Broadcast ProductionIan Maxtone-Graham & Billy KimballWriting in an Animated TV/Broadcast ProductionMichael Price2014Best Animated Short Subject"Michal Socha Couch Gag"General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionDirecting in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionMatthew NastukStoryboarding in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionBrad Ableson, Matthew Faughnan & Stephen ReisWriting in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionTim LongWriting in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionRob LaZebnik2015Best General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production"Halloween of Horror"Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionAl Jean2016Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production"Barthood"Writing in an Animated Television or other Broadcast Venue ProductionDan GreaneyWriting in an Animated Television or other Broadcast Venue ProductionRob LaZebnik2017Directing in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionTimothy Bailey2022Best Mature Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production"Treehouse of Horror XXXIII"2024Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionJessica Conrad2025Character Animation in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionNik Ranieri * denotes nominated works with awards pending presentation and announcement
British Comedy Awards
The Simpsons has won three British Comedy Awards. Matt Groening also won a special award for Outstanding Contribution to Comedy in 2004.
Year Category Result 2000 Best International Comedy Show 2004 Best International Comedy Show 2005 Best International Comedy Show 2007 Best International Comedy
Primetime Emmy Awards The Simpsons has won 36 Primetime Emmy Awards in four categories, but has been nominated for 79 awards in nine different categories. Two of these nominations were for "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", which was nominated in 1990 as a separate cartoon because officially it is considered a TV special and not a part of the series, however it is included in these statistics. The show's best year was 1992, when it won six Emmys, all for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance. Until 2009, the Outstanding Voice-Over Performance Emmy was awarded by a committee, so there were no nominations.
Prior to 1993, the series had only been allowed to compete in the animation category, but in early 1993 the rules were changed so that animated television shows would be able to submit nominations in the Outstanding Comedy Series category. The producers submitted "A Streetcar Named Marge" and "Mr. Plow" but the Emmy voters were hesitant to pit cartoons against live action programs, and The Simpsons did not receive a nomination. Several critics saw the show's failure to gain a nomination as one of the biggest snubs for that year. The Simpsons' crew again submitted episodes for "Outstanding Comedy Series" the next season, but these again were not nominated. Since then, the show has submitted episodes in the animation category.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming less than One Hour)
The Simpsons won twelve out of thirty-three nominations, held the distinction as the highest wins and nominations of any animated series in the same category. It has been nominated for every year except 1993, 1994 and 2014; 1993 marked the first year that the producers of The Simpsons did not submit episodes for that category. Year Nominated episode Result1990 "Life on the Fast Lane" "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" 1991 "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" 1992 "Radio Bart" 1995 "Lisa's Wedding" 1996 "Treehouse of Horror VI" 1997 "Homer's Phobia" 1998 "Trash of the Titans" 1999 "Viva Ned Flanders" 2000 "Behind the Laughter" 2001 "HOMR" 2002 "She of Little Faith" 2003 "Three Gays of the Condo" 2004 "The Way We Weren't" 2005 "Future-Drama" 2006 "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story" 2007 "The Haw-Hawed Couple" 2008 "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" 2009 "Gone Maggie Gone" 2010 "Once Upon a Time in Springfield" 2011 "Angry Dad - The Movie" 2012 "Holidays of Future Passed" 2013 "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" 2015 "Treehouse of Horror XXV"2016"Halloween of Horror"2017"The Town"2018"Gone Boy"2019"Mad About the Toy"2020"Thanksgiving of Horror"2021"The Dad-Feelings Limited"2022"Pixelated and Afraid"2023"Treehouse of Horror XXXIII"2024"Night of the Living Wage"2025"Bart's Birthday"2026"Homer? A Cracker Bro?"
Outstanding Voice-Over Performance
In 2014, the award was split into two different categories, Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance and Outstanding Narrator. Nominations and wins in 2014 and after are in the Character Voice-Over category.