List of awards and nominations received by Bill Cosby
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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assault Cosby has been stripped of various honorary degrees and awards including the Kennedy Center Honors (1998, rescinded in 2018) and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (2009, also rescinded in 2018).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.[1]
Major associations
[edit]| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primetime Emmy Awards | ||||
| 1966 | Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series | I Spy | Won | [2] |
| 1967 | ||||
| 1968 | ||||
| 1969 | Outstanding Variety Special | The Bill Cosby Special | ||
| 1970 | Outstanding Comedy Series | The Bill Cosby Show | Nominated | |
| Outstanding New Series | ||||
| Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series | ||||
| Outstanding Variety Special | The Second Bill Cosby Special | |||
| 2003 | Bob Hope Humanitarian Award | Won | ||
| Daytime Emmy Awards | ||||
| 1975 | Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming | Highlights of Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus | Nominated | |
| 1981 | Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids | Won | ||
| 1986 | Outstanding Children's Animated Program | Nominated | ||
| 2002 | Outstanding Special Class Animated Program | Little Bill | ||
| 2004 | Outstanding Children's Animated Program | Won | ||
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Best Comedy Album | Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow...Right! | Nominated | [3] |
| 1965 | I Started Out as a Child | Won | [4] | |
| 1966 | Why Is There Air? | Won | [5] | |
| 1967 | Wonderfulness | Won | [6] | |
| 1968 | Revenge | Won | [7] | |
| 1969 | To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With | Won | [8] | |
| 1970 | Sports, a.k.a. Bill Cosby | Won | [9] | |
| 1971 | Live: Madison Square Garden Center | Nominated | [10] | |
| Best Spoken Word Album | Grover Henson Feels Forgotten | Nominated | [11] | |
| 1972 | Best Comedy Album | When I Was a Kid | Nominated | [12] |
| Best Children's Album | Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs | Won | [13] | |
| 1973 | The Electric Company | Won | [14] | |
| 1973 | Best Comedy Album | Fat Albert | Nominated | [15] |
| 1976 | Bill Cosby Is Not Himself These Days | Nominated | [16] | |
| 1984 | Bill Cosby: Himself | Nominated | [17] | |
| 1987 | Those of You with or Without Children, You'll Understand | Won | [18] | |
| Best Spoken Word Album | Hardheaded Boys | Nominated | [19] |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Best TV Star - Male | I Spy | Nominated | [20] |
| 1972 | Best Actor - Musical or Comedy Series | The New Bill Cosby Show | ||
| 1984 | The Cosby Show | Won | ||
| 1985 | ||||
| 1986 | Nominated |
Honorary awards
[edit]- 1984: He was inducted into the Temple University Athletics Hall of Fame.[21]
- 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.[22]
- 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.[23]
- 2010: Received the Lone Sailor Award by the United States Navy Memorial.[24]
- 2010: Received the National Football Foundation's Gold Medal[25]
Honorary degrees
[edit]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.[26]
Rescinded awards
[edit]Rescinded awards due to convictions and allegations of sexual assault:
- 2011: Received Honorary Chief Petty Officer from U.S. Navy. Revoked December 4, 2014.[27][28]
- 2009: Received the Marian Anderson Award. Rescinded May 3, 2018.[29]
- 1998: Received the Kennedy Center Honor.[30] Rescinded May 7, 2018.[31]
- 2009: Presented with the 12th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.[32][33] Rescinded May 7, 2018.[31]
- 2002: Received the TCA Career Achievement Award. Rescinded September 25, 2018.[34]
- May 3, 2018, Cosby was expelled as a member of the Actors Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[35]
- 1982: He won the Theodore Roosevelt Award as a Member of Temple University football. Rescinded in 2018.[36]
References
[edit]- ^ "Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski expelled from Oscars academy". BBC News. 3 May 2018. Retrieved June 30, 2021.
- ^ "Bill Cosby Awards, Nominations and Wins". Emmys.com. Retrieved June 30, 2021.
- ^ "6th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ "7th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ "8th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ "9th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ "10th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ "11th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ "12th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ "13th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ "13th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ "14th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ "6th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ "15th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ "16th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ "19th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ "26th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ "29th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ "29th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ "Bill Cosby". goldenglobes.com. Retrieved June 30, 2021.
- ^ "Bill Cosby remains Hall of Famer in eyes of Temple University Athletics". FOX Sports. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
- ^ Asante, Molefi Kete (2002). The 100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1-57392-963-9.
- ^ "The comedians' comedian". Chortle.co.uk. December 30, 2015.
- ^ "Lone Sailor Award recipients". navymemorial.org. Archived from the original on October 16, 2015. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
- ^ "Temple's Bill Cosby to be Honored with National Football Foundation's Top Award" (Press release). Philadelphia. August 18, 2010. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
- ^ Ember, Sydney; Moynihan, Colin (October 6, 2015). "To Revoke or Not: Colleges That Gave Cosby Honors Face a Tough Question". The New York Times. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
- ^ "Navy Revokes Bill Cosby's Honorary Title" (Press release). December 4, 2014. Archived from the original on December 16, 2018. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
- ^ "Navy Revokes Honorary Title for Cosby". December 4, 2014. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
- ^ Vadala, Nick (3 May 2018). "Bill Cosby's Marian Anderson Award rescinded". The Inquirer. Retrieved December 13, 2018.
- ^ "Biography of Bill Cosby". John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Archived from the original on February 16, 2007. Retrieved February 23, 2007.
- ^ a b "Kennedy Center rescinds Honors, Twain awards given to Bill Cosby". Washington Post.
- ^ Itzkoff, Dave (October 27, 2009). "Bill Cosby receives Mark Twain Prize". The New York Times. Retrieved September 22, 2013.
- ^ Farhi, Paul (October 27, 2009). "Bill Cosby is awarded the Twain Prize for humor at the Kennedy Centre". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 22, 2013.
- ^ Otterson, Joe (September 25, 2018). "Bill Cosby's Career Achievement Award Rescinded by TCA". variety. Retrieved December 13, 2018.
- ^ "Roman Polanski and Bill Cosby expelled from the film Academy". The Guardian. May 3, 2018.
- ^ "Bill Cosby remains Hall of Famer in eyes of Temple University Athletics". FOX Sports. Retrieved 2024-01-01.