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List of awards and nominations received by Mel Brooks

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Mel Brooks awards and nominations

Brooks receiving a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame on April 23, 2010
Totals
Awards won 27
Nominations 62

The following is a List of awards and nominations received by Mel Brooks.

Mel Brooks is an American actor, writer, director, producer, comedian, and composer. 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.

Brooks won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his satirical black comedy film The Producers (1967) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the satirical western comedy Blazing Saddles (1974) and Best Original Song for its title theme. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay for Blazing Saddles. Brooks has received six competitive Golden Globe Award nominations without a win. He won two Writers Guild of America Awards for Best Original Screenplay for The Producers and Blazing Saddles.

He adapted The Producers into a commercially and critically successful 2001 musical on Broadway starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. At the 55th Tony Awards he received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Original Score. Brooks also received three Drama Desk Awards, a Drama League Award, a New York Film Critics Circle Award, and two Outer Critics Circle Awards. The production transferred to the West End in London where Brooks won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical in 2005.

For his work on television he received the Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for the CBS variety special The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special (1967) and as well as three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for the NBC sitcom Mad About You in 1997, 1998, and 1999. Brooks earned three Grammy Awards; for Best Comedy Album for The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000, Best Musical Theater Album for The Producers, and Best Music Film for Recording The Producers.

Major associations

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Academy Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1968 Best Original Screenplay The Producers Won [2]
1974 Best Adapted Screenplay Young Frankenstein Nominated [3]
Best Original Song "Blazing Saddles", Blazing Saddles Nominated

BAFTA Awards

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British Academy Film Awards
Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1975 Best Screenplay Blazing Saddles Nominated [4]

Emmy Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
Primetime Emmy Awards
1956 Best Comedy Writing Caesar's Hour Nominated [5]
1957 Nominated [6]
1958 Nominated [7]
1966 Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy Get Smart Nominated [8]
1967 Outstanding Writing Achievement in Variety The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special Won [9]
1997 Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Mad About You Won [10]
1998 Won [11]
1999 Won [12]
2012 Outstanding Variety Special Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again Nominated [13]
2013 Mel Brooks Strikes Back: With Mel Brooks and Alan Yentob Nominated [14]
2015 Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen Nominated [15]
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 [16]
Daytime Emmy Awards
2005 Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks Nominated [17]

Golden Globe Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1969 Best Screenplay The Producers Nominated [18]
1977 Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Silent Movie Nominated [19]
1978 High Anxiety Nominated [20]
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Nominated [21]
2006 The Producers Nominated [22]
Best Original Song "There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway", The Producers Nominated [23]

Grammy Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1961 Best Comedy Album 2000 Year Old Man Nominated [24]
1962 2000 and One Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks Nominated [25]
1964 Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival Nominated [26]
1982 The Inquisition (Mel Brooks' History Of The World, Part I) Nominated [27]
1999 The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 Won [28]
2002 Best Musical Theater Album The Producers Won [29]
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 [30]
2009 Best Musical Theater Album Young Frankenstein Nominated [31]
2023 Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording All About Me! Nominated [32]

Laurence Olivier Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2005 Best New Musical The Producers Won [33][34]

Tony Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2001 Best Musical The Producers Won [35]
Best Book of a Musical Won
Best Original Score Won

Miscellaneous awards

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Organizations Year Category Project Result Ref.
American Comedy Award 1997 Funniest Male Guest Appearance in a TV Series Mad About You Won
2000 Won
CINE#Notable CINE 1963 Golden Eagle Award The Critic Won [36]
Hugo Award 1975 Best Dramatic Presentation Young Frankenstein Won [37]
Nebula Award 1976 Best Dramatic Writing Won [38]
Saturn Award Best Director Won
Stinkers Bad Movie Award 1981 Worst Picture History of the World, Part 1 Nominated [39]
1987 Worst Picture Spaceballs Won [40]
1997 Lifetime Non-Achievement Award – The Hall of Shame Nominated [41]
2007 Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy History of the World, Part I Won
Worst Song "The Inquisition" from History of the World, Part I Nominated
Nastro d'Argento 1984 Best Foreign Actor To Be or Not to Be Nominated
Writers Guild of America Awards 1969 Best Written Comedy The Producers Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Won
1971 Best Adapted Screenplay – Comedy The Twelve Chairs Nominated
1975 Young Frankenstein Nominated
Best Original Screenplay – Comedy Blazing Saddles Won
1977 Silent Movie Nominated

Other theatre awards

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Organizations Year Category Project Result Ref.
Drama Desk Awards 2001 Outstanding Musical The Producers Won [42]
Outstanding Book of a Musical Won [43]
Outstanding Lyrics Won [44]
2008 Young Frankenstein Nominated [45]
Drama League Awards 2001 Outstanding Production of a Musical The Producers Won
2008 Young Frankenstein Nominated [46]
New York Drama Critics' Circles 2001 Best Musical The Producers Won [47]
Outer Critics Circle Awards 2001 The Producers Outstanding Broadway Musical Won [48]
2008 Young Frankenstein Outstanding New Broadway Musical Won [49]
Outstanding New Score Nominated

Honorary awards

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Organizations Year Notes Result Ref.
American Comedy Awards 1987 Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy Honored
Writers Guild of America Awards 2003 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement Honored [50]
Ernst Lubitsch Award 2009 Honorary Award Honored [51][52]
Kennedy Center Honor Medal Honored [53]
Hollywood Walk of Fame 2010 Motion Picture Star Honored [54][55]
American Film Institute 2013 AFI Life Achievement Award Honored [56][57]
British Film Institute Fellowship 2015 Inductee Honored [58][59]
National Medal of Arts 2016 Medal Honored [60][61]
British Academy Film Awards 2017 BAFTA Fellowship Honored [62]
Academy Awards 2023 Honorary Academy Award Honored [63]
Peabody Award 2024 Career Peabody Award Honored [64]

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