List of awards and nominations received by Mel Brooks

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by American actor, writer, director, producer, comedian, and composer Mel Brooks. Over his career, 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 sixteen 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.

Mel Brooks awards and nominations

Brooks receiving a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame on April 23, 2010
Totals
Awards won 27
Nominations 60

Film and television

Academy Awards
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
1969 The Producers Best Original Screenplay Won [2]
1975 Young Frankenstein Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated [3]
Blazing Saddles Best Original Song ("Blazing Saddles") Nominated

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

Emmy Awards
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
Daytime Emmy Awards
2005 Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program Nominated [5]
Primetime Emmy Awards
1956 Caesar's Hour Best Comedy Writing Nominated [6]
1957 Nominated
1958 Nominated
1966 Get Smart Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy Nominated
1967 The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special Outstanding Writing Achievement in Variety Won
1997 Mad About You Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Won
1998 Won
1999 Won
2012 Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again Outstanding Variety Special 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
The Comedians Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Nominated

Golden Globe Awards
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
1969 The Producers Best Screenplay Nominated [7]
1977 Silent Movie Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated [8]
1978 High Anxiety Nominated [9]
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Nominated [10]
2006 The Producers Nominated [11]
Best Original Song ("There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway") Nominated [12]

Writers Guild of America Awards
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
1969 The Producers Best Written Comedy Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Won
1971 The Twelve Chairs Best Adapted Screenplay – Comedy Nominated
1975 Young Frankenstein Nominated
Blazing Saddles Best Original Screenplay – Comedy Won
1977 Silent Movie Nominated

Other awards
Year Award Nominated work Result Ref.
1963 CINE Golden Eagle Award The Critic Won [13]
1975 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation Young Frankenstein Won [14]
1976 Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Writing Won [15]
Saturn Award for Best Director Won
1981 1981 Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Worst Picture History of the World, Part 1 Nominated [16]
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 [17]
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 1 Won
1981 Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Worst Song "The Inquisition" from History of the World, Part 1 Nominated
  • Note: the Stinkers are listed twice, as the same ballot done in 1981 was revised in 2007.

Theatre

Tony Awards
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
2001 The Producers Best Musical Won [18]
Best Book of a Musical Won
Best Original Score Won

Drama Desk Awards
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
2001 The Producers Outstanding Musical Won [19]
Outstanding Book of a Musical Won [20]
Outstanding Lyrics Won [21]
2008 Young Frankenstein Nominated [22]

Drama League Awards
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
2001 The Producers Outstanding Production of a Musical Won
2008 Young Frankenstein Nominated [23]

Laurence Olivier Awards
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
2005 The Producers Best New Musical Won [24][25]

New York Drama Critics' Circles
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
2001 The Producers Best Musical Won [26]

Outer Critics Circle Awards
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
2001 The Producers Outstanding Broadway Musical Won [27]
2008 Young Frankenstein Outstanding New Broadway Musical Won [28]
Outstanding New Score Nominated

Music

Grammy Awards
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
1961 2000 Year Old Man Best Comedy Performance – Spoken Word Nominated [29]
1962 2000 and One Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks Best Comedy Performance Nominated
1964 Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival Nominated
1982 The Inquisition (Mel Brooks' History Of The World, Part I) Best Comedy Recording Nominated
1999 The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 Best Spoken Comedy Album Won
2002 The Producers Best Musical Theater Album Won
Recording The Producers – A Musical Romp With Mel Brooks Best Long Form Music Video Won
2007 The Producers Best Song Written for Visual Media ("There's Nothing Like A Show On Broadway") Nominated
2009 Young Frankenstein Best Musical Theater Album Nominated

Special awards and honors
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 [30]
2003 Writers Guild of America Awards Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement Won [31]
2009 Ernst Lubitsch Award Honorary Award Won [32][33]
Kennedy Center Honor Won [34]
2010 Hollywood Walk of Fame Motion Pictures Won [35][36]
2013 American Film Institute Life Achievement Award Won [37][38]
2015 British Film Institute Fellowship Won [39][40]
2016 National Medal of Arts Won [41][42]
2017 BAFTA Award Academy Fellowship Won [43]

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