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List of awards and nominations received by Whitney Houston

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As one of The Best Selling Female Recording Artist Ever, Whitney Houston has been honored with several awards and accolades recognizing her worldwide success through the music and movie industries. Below is a list of the many awards Houston has to her name.

1985

1986

  • Emmy Awards
    • Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program— “28th Annual Grammy Award Telecast”

1987

1988

  • American Music Awards
    • Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist
    • Favorite Pop/Rock Single, "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)"
  • Billboard Magazine
    • Top Pop Female Singles Artist
  • Goldener RE Pinguin Germany
    • Best female Artist
  • Bravo Otto Award Germany
    • Silver Award for Best female Artist
  • Emmy Awards
    • Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program
  • First Annual Garden State (New Jersey) Music Awards
    • Best Music Video—“I Wanna Dance With Somebody”
    • Best Female Vocalist, Rock/Pop
    • Best Single Rock/Pop—“So Emotional”
    • Best Single R&B/Dance—“So Emotional”
    • Best Female Vocalist, R&B/Dance
    • Best LP R&B/Dance—Whitney
    • Best LP Rock/Pop—Whitney
  • KEY OF NEWARK
  • PEOPLE MAGAZINE READERS POll
    • Best female Artist
  • BOSTON HERALD AWARD FOR WHITNEY HOUSTON

1989

1990

  • Appointed by George Bush Points of Light Contributing Leadership Award
  • The United Negro College Fund Founder Award-“The Frederick D. Patterson Award”
  • The Songwriters’ Hall of Fame Hitmakers Award
  • The 1990 Essence Award for the Performing Arts

1991

  • Cable Ace Awards
    • Top Performance in a Musical Special or Series -“HBO Presents Welcome Home Heroes with Whitney Houston”
  • The American Cinema Performer of the Year Award
  • The Music Award—American Black Achievement Awards

1992

  • The Children’s’ Diabetes Foundation Brass Ring Award

1993

  • Billboard Music Awards
    • Top Selling Album of 1993- The Bodyguard
    • Hot 100 Singles Artist
    • Top Pop Single of the Year- "I Will Always Love You"
    • Hot 100 Singles Artist- Female
    • Top Selling Single of the Year- "I Will Always Love You"
    • Top R&B Album - The Bodyguard
    • Hot R&B Singles Artist
    • Hot R&B Single- "I Will Always Love You"
    • Hot R&B Singles Sales- "I Will Always Love You"
    • Top Soundtrack- The Bodyguard
    • Special Award for 14 weeks at #1 with "I Will Always Love You" (a record at that time)

1994

  • Grammy Awards
    • Album of the Year- The Bodyguard
    • Record of the Year- "I Will Always Love You"
    • Best Female Pop Vocal Performance- "I Will Always Love You
  • American Music Awards
    • Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist
    • Favorite Pop/Rock Single—“I Will Always Love You”
    • Favorite Pop/Rock Album—“The Bodyguard”
    • Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist
    • Favorite Soul/R&B Single—“I Will Always Love You”
    • Favorite Soul/R&B Album—“The Bodyguard”
    • Favorite Adult Contemporary Album—“The Bodyguard”
    • Award of Merit
  • Soul Train Music Awards
    • Sammy Davis Jr. Entertainer of the Year Award
    • Best R&B Song of the Year—“I Will Always Love You”
  • NAACP Image Awards
    • Outstanding Female Artist
    • Entertainer of the year
    • Best female Musicvideo "I'm every woman"
    • Album of the year "The Bodyguard
  • World Music Awards
    • World's Best Selling Overall Recording Artist
    • World's Best Selling Pop Artist
    • World's Best Selling R&B Artist
    • Best Selling American Recording Artist of the Year
    • Special Award for being named 'World's Best Selling Recording Artist of the Era'
  • JUNO Music Award
    • Best selling Album of the year "The Bodyguard"
  • NABOB AWARD
    • Entertainer of the year

1995

  • NAACP Image Awards
    • Outstanding Female Artist
    • Album of the year "Waiting to Exhale"
    • Best Soundtrackalbum "Waiting to Ehxhale"
  • VH-1 Honor-for Whitney Houston Foundation for Children
  • Distinguished Achievement in Music and Film/Video—The 2nd Annual International Achievement in Arts Award

1996

  • Soul Train Music Awards
    • Best R&B/Soul Single, Female—“Exhale (Shoop, Shoop) ”
  • Carousel of hope ball
    • Carousel of hope Award
  • Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards
    • Hall of Fame Inductee

1997

  • American Music Awards
    • Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist
    • Favorite Soundtrack—“Waiting to Exhale”
  • NAACP Image Award
    • Best Actress "The preachers wife"
    • Album of the year "The preachers wife"
    • Gospelartist of the year "The preachers wife"
  • The Triumphant Spirit Award-Essence Magazine
  • The Top Contribution To Gospel By A Mainstream Artist-Gospel Music Association
  • ASCAP Pop Awards—“Count On Me”

1998

  • Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards
    • Best Female Singer

1999

  • MTV Europe Awards
    • Best R&B Artist
  • Bambi Award Germany
    • Internat. Singer of the year "My love is your love"
  • NAACP Image Awards
    • Best work of a group/duo "When you believe" with Mariah Carey
  • BlockBuster Awards
    • Favorite Female R&B Artist
  • Ranked #61 on VH1's "100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll"

2000

  • Grammy Awards
    • Best Female R&B Vocal Performance- "It's Not Right, But It's Okay"
  • NAACP Image Awards
    • Outstanding Female Artist - "Heartbreak Hotel" (with Faith Evans and Kelly Price)
  • HMV WALK OF FAME INDUCTEE
  • BlockBuster Awards
    • Favorite Single (Internet Only) - "Heartbreak Hotel"
    • Favorite Song from a Movie (Internet Only) - "When You Believe" (with Mariah Carey)
  • "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" ranked #81 on VH1's "100 Greatest Dance Songs"
  • "I Will Always Love You" ranked #40 on Rolling Stone and MTV's "100 Greatest Pop Songs"

2001

  • BET Awards
    • First Annual Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Best International Female- Meteor Ireland Music Awards

2003

  • "I Will Always Love You" ranked #1 on VH1's "100 Greatest Love Songs"
  • "I Will Always Love You" ranked #8 on VH1's "100 Best Songs of the Past 25 Years"
  • Whitney Houston ranked #254 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time"

2004

  • Womans World Award
    • Lifetime Achievement Award

2005

  • Silberner Kabel 1 Stern Germany
    • Best Filmsong of all time

2006

  • [[Guinness Book of World Records]
    • Most Awarded/Recognized/Popular female artist of all-time
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