List of awards and nominations received by 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

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

Academy Awards

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

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 [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]

Grammy Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1961 Best Comedy Album 2000 Year Old Man Nominated [17]
1962 2000 and One Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks Nominated [18]
1964 Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival Nominated [19]
1982 The Inquisition (Mel Brooks' History Of The World, Part I) Nominated [20]
1999 The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 Won [21]
2002 Best Musical Theater Album The Producers Won [22]
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 [23]
2009 Best Musical Theater Album Young Frankenstein Nominated [24]
2023 Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording All About Me! Nominated [25]

Tony Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2001 Best Musical The Producers Won [26]
Best Book of a Musical Won
Best Original Score Won

Industry awards

BAFTA Awards

British Academy Film Awards
Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1975 Best Screenplay Blazing Saddles Nominated [27]
2016 BAFTA Fellowship Won [28]

Golden Globe Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1969 Best Screenplay The Producers Nominated [29]
1977 Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Silent Movie Nominated [30]
1978 High Anxiety Nominated [31]
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Nominated [32]
2006 The Producers Nominated [33]
Best Original Song "There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway", The Producers Nominated [34]

Writers Guild of America Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
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

Theatre

Drama Desk Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2001 Outstanding Musical The Producers Won [35]
Outstanding Book of a Musical Won [36]
Outstanding Lyrics Won [37]
2008 Young Frankenstein Nominated [38]

Drama League Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2001 Outstanding Production of a Musical The Producers Won
2008 Young Frankenstein Nominated [39]

Laurence Olivier Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2005 Best New Musical The Producers Won [40][41]

New York Drama Critics' Circles

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2001 Best Musical The Producers Won [42]

Outer Critics Circle Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2001 The Producers Outstanding Broadway Musical Won [43]
2008 Young Frankenstein Outstanding New Broadway Musical Won [44]
Outstanding New Score Nominated

Honorary awards

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 [45]
2003 Writers Guild of America Awards Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement Won [46]
2009 Ernst Lubitsch Award Honorary Award Won [47][48]
Kennedy Center Honor Won [49]
2010 Hollywood Walk of Fame Motion Pictures Won [50][51]
2013 American Film Institute Life Achievement Award Won [52][53]
2015 British Film Institute Fellowship Won [54][55]
2016 National Medal of Arts Won [56][57]
2017 BAFTA Award Academy Fellowship Won [58]
2023 Academy Awards Honorary Award Won [59]
2024 Peabody Award Career Peabody Award Won [60]

Miscellaneous awards

Year Award Nominated work Result Ref.
1963 CINE Golden Eagle Award The Critic Won [61]
1975 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation Young Frankenstein Won [62]
1976 Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Writing Won [63]
Saturn Award for Best Director Won
1981 1981 Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Worst Picture History of the World, Part 1 Nominated [64]
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 [65]
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.

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