List of awards and nominations received by Mel Brooks

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

Mel Brooks awards and nominations
Brooks receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 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
10
13
Totals
Wins27
Nominations62
Note
  1. Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

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 (plus an Academy Honorary Award), four Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, and has been nominated for six Golden Globe Awards and one BAFTA Award. With his Tony wins for The Producers in 2001, he became one of only twenty one people who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award. 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.
1969 Best Original Screenplay The Producers Won
1975 Best Adapted Screenplay Young Frankenstein Nominated
Best Original Song "Blazing Saddles", Blazing Saddles Nominated

Directed Academy Award performances
Under Brooks' direction, these actors have received Academy Award nominations for their performances in their respective roles.

Year Performer Film Result
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1969 Gene Wilder The Producers Nominated
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1975 Madeline Kahn Blazing Saddles Nominated

BAFTA Awards

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

Emmy Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
Primetime Emmy Awards
1956 Best Comedy Writing Caesar's Hour Nominated
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
Daytime Emmy Awards
2005 Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks Nominated

Golden Globe Awards

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

Grammy Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1961 Best Comedy Album 2000 Year Old Man Nominated
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

Laurence Olivier Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2005 Best New Musical The Producers Won

Tony Awards

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

Miscellaneous awards

Organizations Year Category Project Result Ref.
American Comedy Awards 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
Hugo Award 1975 Best Dramatic Presentation Young Frankenstein Won
Nebula Award 1976 Best Dramatic Writing Won
Saturn Awards Best Director Won
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 1981 Worst Picture History of the World, Part I Nominated
1987 Worst Picture Spaceballs Won
1997 Lifetime Non-Achievement Award – The Hall of Shame Nominated
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

Organizations Year Category Project Result Ref.
Drama Desk Awards 2001 Outstanding Musical The Producers Won
Outstanding Book of a Musical Won
Outstanding Lyrics Won
2008 Young Frankenstein Nominated
Drama League Awards 2001 Outstanding Production of a Musical The Producers Won
2008 Young Frankenstein Nominated
New York Drama Critics' Circles 2001 Best Musical The Producers Won
Outer Critics Circle Awards 2001 The Producers Outstanding Broadway Musical Won
2008 Young Frankenstein Outstanding New Broadway Musical Won
Outstanding New Score Nominated

Honorary awards

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
Ernst Lubitsch Award 2009 Honorary Award Honored
Kennedy Center Honor Medal Honored
Hollywood Walk of Fame 2010 Motion Picture Star Honored
American Film Institute 2013 AFI Life Achievement Award Honored
British Film Institute Fellowship 2015 Inductee Honored
National Medal of Arts 2016 Medal Honored
British Academy Film Awards 2017 BAFTA Fellowship Honored
Academy Awards 2023 Academy Honorary Award Honored
Peabody Awards 2024 Career Peabody Award Honored

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