List of awards and nominations received by Mel Brooks

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by American actor, writer, director, producer, comedian, and composer Mel Brooks.

Mel Brooks awards and nominations

Brooks receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 23, 2010
Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 1 3 BAFTA Awards 0 1 Emmy Awards 4 15 Drama Desk Awards 3 4 Golden Globes 0 6 Grammy Awards 3 10 Laurence Olivier Awards 1 1 Tony Awards 3 3 WGA Awards 2 6 Other Awards 10 13
Totals
Awards won	27
Nominations	62

Over his 70 year career in film, theatre, and television Brooks has won an Academy Award, four Emmys, three Tony Awards, three Grammys, and has been nominated for six Golden Globes and one BAFTA Award. With his Tony wins for The Producers in 2001, he became one of only eighteen people who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award.^[1] 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.

Major associations

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1969	Best Original Screenplay	The Producers	Won	^[2]
1975	Best Adapted Screenplay	Young Frankenstein	Nominated	^[3]
	Best Original Song	"Blazing Saddles", Blazing Saddles	Nominated

Emmy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Daytime Emmy Awards
2005	Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program	Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks	Nominated	^[4]
Primetime Emmy Awards
1956	Best Comedy Writing	Caesar's Hour	Nominated	^[5]
1957			Nominated
1958			Nominated
1966	Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy	Get Smart	Nominated
1967	Outstanding Writing Achievement in Variety	The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special	Won
1997	Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series	Mad About You	Won
1998			Won
1999			Won
2012	Outstanding Variety Special	Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again	Nominated
2013		Mel Brooks Strikes Back: With Mel Brooks and Alan Yentob	Nominated
2015		Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen	Nominated
	Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special		Nominated
	Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series	The Comedians	Nominated
2023	Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance	History of the World, Part II	Nominated

Grammy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1961	Best Comedy Album	2000 Year Old Man	Nominated	^[6]
1962		2000 and One Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks	Nominated
1964		Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival	Nominated
1982		The Inquisition (Mel Brooks' History Of The World, Part I)	Nominated
1999		The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000	Won
2002	Best Musical Theater Album	The Producers	Won
	Best Long Form Music Video	Recording The Producers: A Musical Romp With Mel Brooks	Won
2007	Best Song Written for Visual Media	"There's Nothing Like A Show On Broadway", The Producers	Nominated
2009	Best Musical Theater Album	Young Frankenstein	Nominated
2023	Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording	All About Me!	Nominated	^[7]

Tony Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2001	Best Musical	The Producers	Won	^[8]
	Best Book of a Musical		Won
	Best Original Score		Won

Industry awards

British Academy Film Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1975	Best Screenplay	Blazing Saddles	Nominated	^[9]
2016	BAFTA Fellowship		Won

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1969	Best Screenplay	The Producers	Nominated	^[10]
1977	Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy	Silent Movie	Nominated	^[11]
1978		High Anxiety	Nominated	^[12]
	Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy		Nominated	^[13]
2006		The Producers	Nominated	^[14]
	Best Original Song	"There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway", The Producers	Nominated	^[15]

Writers Guild of America Awards

Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
1969	The Producers	Best Written Comedy	Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay	Won
1971	The Twelve Chairs	Best Adapted Screenplay – Comedy	Nominated
1975	Young Frankenstein		Nominated
	Blazing Saddles	Best Original Screenplay – Comedy	Won
1977	Silent Movie		Nominated

Theatre

Drama Desk Awards

Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
2001	The Producers	Outstanding Musical	Won	^[16]
		Outstanding Book of a Musical	Won	^[17]
		Outstanding Lyrics	Won	^[18]
2008	Young Frankenstein		Nominated	^[19]

Drama League Awards

Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
2001	The Producers	Outstanding Production of a Musical	Won
2008	Young Frankenstein		Nominated	^[20]

Laurence Olivier Awards

Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
2005	The Producers	Best New Musical	Won	^[21]^[22]

New York Drama Critics' Circles

Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
2001	The Producers	Best Musical	Won	^[23]

Outer Critics Circle Awards

Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
2001	The Producers	Outstanding Broadway Musical	Won	^[24]
2008	Young Frankenstein	Outstanding New Broadway Musical	Won	^[25]
		Outstanding New Score	Nominated

Special awards and honors

Year	Awards	Category	Result	Ref.
1987	American Comedy Awards	Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy	Won
1997	Stinkers Bad Movie Awards	Lifetime Non-Achievement Award – The Hall of Shame	Nominated	^[26]
2003	Writers Guild of America Awards	Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement	Won	^[27]
2009	Ernst Lubitsch Award	Honorary Award	Won	^[28]^[29]
	Kennedy Center Honor		Won	^[30]
2010	Hollywood Walk of Fame	Motion Pictures	Won	^[31]^[32]
2013	American Film Institute	Life Achievement Award	Won	^[33]^[34]
2015	British Film Institute Fellowship		Won	^[35]^[36]
2016	National Medal of Arts		Won	^[37]^[38]
2017	BAFTA Award	Academy Fellowship	Won	^[39]
2023	Academy Awards	Honorary Award	Won	^[40]

Miscellaneous awards

Year	Award	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1963	CINE Golden Eagle Award	The Critic	Won	^[41]
1975	Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation	Young Frankenstein	Won	^[42]
1976	Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Writing		Won	^[43]
	Saturn Award for Best Director		Won
1981	1981 Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Worst Picture	History of the World, Part 1	Nominated	^[44]
1984	Nastro d'Argento for Best Foreign Actor	To Be or Not to Be	Nominated
1987	Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Worst Picture	Spaceballs	Won	^[45]
1997	American Comedy Award for Funniest Male Guest Appearance in a TV Series	Mad About You	Won
2000			Won
2007	1981 Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy	History of the World, Part I	Won
	1981 Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Worst Song	"The Inquisition" from History of the World, Part I	Nominated

• Note: the Stinkers are listed twice, as the same ballot done in 1981 was revised in 2007.

References

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External links

• Mel Brooks at IMDb
• Mel Brooks at the Internet Broadway Database