List of awards and nominations received by Mel Brooks
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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
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1968 | Best Original Screenplay | The Producers | Won | [2] |
1974 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Young Frankenstein | Nominated | [3] |
Best Original Song | "Blazing Saddles", Blazing Saddles | Nominated |
British Academy Film Awards | ||||
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Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
1975 | Best Screenplay | Blazing Saddles | Nominated | [4] |
2016 | BAFTA Fellowship | Won | [5] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1969 | Best Screenplay | The Producers | Nominated | [19] |
1977 | Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | Silent Movie | Nominated | [20] |
1978 | High Anxiety | Nominated | [21] | |
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nominated | [22] | ||
2006 | The Producers | Nominated | [23] | |
Best Original Song | "There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway", The Producers | Nominated | [24] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1961 | Best Comedy Album | 2000 Year Old Man | Nominated | [25] |
1962 | 2000 and One Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks | Nominated | [26] | |
1964 | Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival | Nominated | [27] | |
1982 | The Inquisition (Mel Brooks' History Of The World, Part I) | Nominated | [28] | |
1999 | The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 | Won | [29] | |
2002 | Best Musical Theater Album | The Producers | Won | [30] |
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 | [31] |
2009 | Best Musical Theater Album | Young Frankenstein | Nominated | [32] |
2023 | Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording | All About Me! | Nominated | [33] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2005 | Best New Musical | The Producers | Won | [34][35] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2001 | Best Musical | The Producers | Won | [36] |
Best Book of a Musical | Won | |||
Best Original Score | Won |
Miscellaneous awards
Organizations | Year | Category | Project | Result | Ref. |
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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 | [37] |
Hugo Award | 1975 | Best Dramatic Presentation | Young Frankenstein | Won | [38] |
Nebula Award | 1976 | Best Dramatic Writing | Won | [39] | |
Saturn Award | Best Director | Won | |||
Stinkers Bad Movie Award | 1981 | Worst Picture | History of the World, Part 1 | Nominated | [40] |
1987 | Worst Picture | Spaceballs | Won | [41] | |
1997 | Lifetime Non-Achievement Award – The Hall of Shame | Nominated | [42] | ||
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. |
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Drama Desk Awards | 2001 | Outstanding Musical | The Producers | Won | [43] |
Outstanding Book of a Musical | Won | [44] | |||
Outstanding Lyrics | Won | [45] | |||
2008 | Young Frankenstein | Nominated | [46] | ||
Drama League Awards | 2001 | Outstanding Production of a Musical | The Producers | Won | |
2008 | Young Frankenstein | Nominated | [47] | ||
New York Drama Critics' Circles | 2001 | Best Musical | The Producers | Won | [48] |
Outer Critics Circle Awards | 2001 | The Producers | Outstanding Broadway Musical | Won | [49] |
2008 | Young Frankenstein | Outstanding New Broadway Musical | Won | [50] | |
Outstanding New Score | Nominated |
Honorary awards
Organizations | Year | Notes | Result | Ref. |
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American Comedy Awards | 1987 | Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy | Honored | |
Writers Guild of America Awards | 2003 | Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement | Honored | [51] |
Ernst Lubitsch Award | 2009 | Honorary Award | Honored | [52][53] |
Kennedy Center Honor | Medal | Honored | [54] | |
Hollywood Walk of Fame | 2010 | Motion Picture Star | Honored | [55][56] |
American Film Institute | 2013 | AFI Life Achievement Award | Honored | [57][58] |
British Film Institute Fellowship | 2015 | Inductee | Honored | [59][60] |
National Medal of Arts | 2016 | Medal | Honored | [61][62] |
British Academy Film Awards | 2017 | BAFTA Fellowship | Honored | [63] |
Academy Awards | 2023 | Honorary Academy Award | Honored | [64] |
Peabody Award | 2024 | Career Peabody Award | Honored | [65] |
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External links
- Mel Brooks at IMDb
- Mel Brooks at the Internet Broadway Database
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- Awards and nominations
- On screen and stage
- The Producers (1967)
- The Twelve Chairs (1970)
- Blazing Saddles (1974)
- Young Frankenstein (1974)
- Silent Movie (1976)
- High Anxiety (1977)
- History of the World, Part I (1981)
- Spaceballs (1987)
- Life Stinks (1991)
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
- Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
- The Producers (2005)
- Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2022)
- The Elephant Man (1980; uncredited)
- To Be or Not to Be (1983)
- The Fly (1986; uncredited)
- 84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
- Get Smart (1965–1970)
- When Things Were Rotten (1975)
- The Nutt House (1989)
- Spaceballs: The Animated Series (2008–2009)
- History of the World, Part II (2023)
- Shinbone Alley (1957)
- All-American (1962)
- The Producers (2001)
- Young Frankenstein (2007)
- "To Be or Not to Be (The Hitler Rap)" (1983)