List of Frank Sinatra's awards and accolades

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This page contains a list of awards and accolades won by and awarded to Frank Sinatra.

Contents 1 Awards, citations and honours 1.1 Academy Awards 1.2 Academy Awards 1.3 BAFTA Awards 1.4 Downbeat Polls 1.5 Emmy Awards 1.6 Golden Globe Awards 1.7 Screen Actors Guild 1.8 Grammy Awards 1.9 Peabody Awards 1.10 Playboy Awards

[edit] Awards, citations and honours

• Inductee into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame (1980)
• Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Medal of Honor Award (1983)
• Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by President Ronald Reagan (1985)
• Honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology (1985)
• Lifetime Achievement Award from the NAACP (1987)
• Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award (1990)
• Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Cinema Awards (1992)
• The Desert Palm, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Palm Springs International Film Festival (1992)
• Congressional Gold Medal (1997)
• Named as the "Greatest Voice of the Twentieth Century" by BBC Radio 2 (2001) ^[1]
• Each year on Sinatra's birthday, (December 12), the Empire State Building lights up with blue lights in reference to Sinatra's nickname, "Ol' Blue Eyes".
• Honorary membership of Alpha Phi Delta
• Was ranked among Quigley's Top Ten Money-Makers Poll five times -- 1956(10), 1957(5), 1958(10), 1959(7) and 1960(8)

[edit] Academy Awards

Preceded by Anthony Quinn for Viva Zapata!	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 1953 for From Here to Eternity	Succeeded by Edmond O'Brien for The Barefoot Contessa
Preceded by George Jessel	Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award 1970	Succeeded by Rosalind Russell
Preceded by Bob Hope 34th Academy Awards	"Oscars" host 35th Academy Awards	Succeeded by Jack Lemmon 36th Academy Awards
Preceded by John Huston, David Niven, Burt Reynolds, and Diana Ross 46th Academy Awards	"Oscars" host 47th Academy Awards (with Sammy Davis, Jr., Bob Hope, and Shirley MacLaine)	Succeeded by Goldie Hawn, Gene Kelly, Walter Matthau, George Segal, and Robert Shaw 48th Academy Awards

[edit] Academy Awards

Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Song

• I Fall in Love too Easily from the motion picture Anchors Aweigh

• Composed by Sammy Cahn with lyrics by Jule Styne (sung by Frank Sinatra) (1945)

Special Oscar

• Frank Sinatra and the Makers of The House I Live In (1946)

Acdemy Award for Best Supporting Actor

• Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity (1954)

Academy Award for Best Original Song

• Three Coins in the Fountain from the motion picture Three Coins in the Fountain

• Composed by Sammy Cahn with lyrics by Jimmy Van Heusen (sung by Frank Sinatra) (1954)

Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Frank Sinatra in The Man With the Golden Arm (1955)

Academy Award for Best Original Song

• All the Way from the motion picture The Joker is Wild

• Composed by Sammy Cahn with lyrics by Jimmy Van Heusen (sung by Frank Sinatra) (1957)

Academy Award for Best Original Song

• High Hopes from the motion picture A Hole in the Head

• Composed by Sammy Cahn with lyrics by Jimmy Van Heusen (sung by Frank Sinatra) (1959)

Honorary Oscar The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1971)

[edit] BAFTA Awards

• Nominated - Not as a Stranger (1955)
• Nominated - The Man With the Golden Arm (1955)

[edit] Downbeat Polls

• Readers' poll Male Singer of the Year sixteen times between 1941 and 1966
• Readers' poll Personality of the Year six times between 1954 and 1959
• Critics' poll Male Singer of the Year twice, in 1955 and 1957.

[edit] Emmy Awards

• Love and Marriage (1955) Sinatra sang the Emmy Award-Winning Song in the 1955 TV drama Our Town.

• A Man and His Music (1965)

[edit] Golden Globe Awards

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture

• Frank Sinatra for From Here to Eternity (1954)

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

• Frank Sinatra for Pal Joey (1958)

Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

• Frank Sinatra for Come Blow Your Horn (1963)

'Lifetime Achievement Award' Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1971)

[edit] Screen Actors Guild

• 'Lifetime Achievement Award' [1973]

[edit] Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards began in 1958, after two peaks of Sinatra's recording career had already happened, but Sinatra still won eleven Grammy Awards in his career and was the Grammy Hall of Fame Awards along with the Academy's highest honours, their Lifetime, and Legend Awards.

Grammy Award for Best Album Cover:

• Frank Sinatra for Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1960)

Grammy Award for Album of the Year:

• Frank Sinatra for Come Dance with Me! (1960)

Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance:

• Frank Sinatra for Come Dance With Me (from Come Dance With Me! (1960)

Grammy Award for Best Motion Picture Soundtrack:

• Can Can (1961)

Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance:

• Frank Sinatra for It Was a Very Good Year (1965)

Grammy Award for Album of the Year:

• Frank Sinatra for September of My Years (1965)

Grammy Award for Album of the Year:

• Frank Sinatra for A Man and His Music (1966)

Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance:

• Frank Sinatra for Strangers in the Night (1966)

Grammy Award for Record of the Year:

• Frank Sinatra for Strangers in the Night (1966)

Grammy Award for Best Historical Album

• Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey for The Dorsey/Sinatra Sessions Vol. 1, 2 & 3 (1982)

Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance:

• Frank Sinatra for Duets II (1995)

The Bing Crosby Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award [1965]

Grammy Trustee Award [1979]

Grammy Legend Award [1994]

[edit] Peabody Awards

• A Man and His Music (1965)

[edit] Playboy Awards

• Jazz All-Star Poll Male Vocalist of the Year seven times between 1957 and 1963.^[2]