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Footnotes |
This is a list of notable awards won by The Simpsons and The Simpsons Movie. The Simpsons, an animated American sitcom, is the longest running prime time animated series in the United States. It has won many different awards, including 27 Emmy awards, 27 Annie Awards, seven Environmental Media Awards, seven Writers Guild of America Awards, six Genesis Awards, five People's Choice Awards and three British Comedy Awards. Episodes of the show have won 10 Emmys in the Outstanding Animated Program (for programming one hour or less) category. However, The Simpsons has never been nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series, although the show was submitted in the category in 1993 and 1994. James L. Brooks, an executive producer on the show, won ten Emmys for The Simpsons as well as ten for other shows and holds the record for most Primetime Emmys won by a single person, with 20.[2] The Simpsons was the first animated series to be given a Peabody Award, and in 2000 the Simpson family was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Simpsons Movie, released in 2007, was nominated for several major awards, including a Golden Globe Award.
The Simpsons also holds two world records from the Guinness Book of World Records: Longest-Running Primetime Animated Television Series and Most Guest Stars Featured in a Television Series.[1]
First awarded in 1972, the Annie Awards are given exclusively to animated programs. The Simpsons has won 27 Annies, including 12 straight in the Best Animated Television Production category.
Year | Category | Nominee | Result |
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1992 | Best Animated Television Program[3] | Won | |
1993 | Best Animated Television Program[4] | Won | |
1994 | Best Animated Television Program[5] | Won | |
1994 | Best Individual Achievement for Creative Supervision in the Field of Animation[5] | David Silverman | Nominated |
1995 | Best Animated Television Program[6] | Won | |
1995 | Voice Acting in the Field of Animation[6] | Nancy Cartwright as Bart Simpson |
Won |
1996 | Best Animated Television Program[7] | Won | |
1997 | Best Animated Television Program[8] | Won | |
1997 | Best Directing in a TV Production[8] | Mike B. Anderson for "Homer's Phobia" |
Won |
1997 | Best Music in a TV Production[8] | Alf Clausen | Won |
1997 | Best Producing in a TV Production[8] | Al Jean & Mike Reiss for "The Springfield Files" |
Won |
1997 | Best Voice Acting by a Female Performer in a TV Production[8] | Maggie Roswell for "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" |
Nominated |
1998 | Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Primetime Program[9] | Won | |
1998 | Outstanding Music in an Animated Television Production[9] | Alf Clausen & Ken Keeler for "You're Checkin' In" "The City of New York Vs. Homer Simpson" |
Won |
1998 | Outstanding Directing in an Animated Television Production [9] | Jim Reardon for "Trash of the Titans" |
Won |
1999 | Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Television Program[10] | Won | |
1999 | Outstanding Writing in an Animated Television Production[10] | Tim Long, Larry Doyle, and Matt Selman for "Simpsons Bible Stories" |
Won |
2000 | Outstanding Achievement in a Primetime Animated Television Program[11] | Won | |
2000 | Outstanding Music in an Animated Television Production[11] | Alf Clausen for "Behind the Laughter" |
Won |
2001 | Outstanding Achievement in a Primetime Animated Television Program[12] | Won | |
2001 | Outstanding Writing in an Animated Television Production[12] | Al Jean for "HOMR" |
Nominated |
2002 | Best Animated Television Production[13] | Won | |
2003 | Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Television Production[14] | Won | |
2003 | Best Directing in an Animated Television Production[14] | Steven Dean Moore for "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" |
Won |
2003 | Best Music in an Animated Television Production[14] | Alf Clausen, Ken Keeler and Ian Maxtone-Graham for "Dude, Where's My Ranch?" |
Won |
2003 | Best Writing in an Animated Television Production[14] | Matt Warburton for "Three Gays of the Condo" |
Won |
2006 | Best Writing in an Animated Television Production[15] | Ian Maxtone-Graham for "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story" |
Won |
2007 | Best Music in an Animated Television Production[16] | Alf Clausen & Michael Price for "Yokel Chords" |
Won |
2007 | Best Writing in an Animated Television Production[16] | Ian Maxtone-Graham & Billy Kimball for "24 Minutes" |
Won |
2008 | Best Animated Television Production[17] | Nominated | |
2008 | Best Directing in an Animated Television Production[17] | Bob Anderson for "Treehouse of Horror XIX" |
Nominated |
2008 | Best Writing in an Animated Television Production[17] | Joel H. Cohen for "The Debarted" |
Nominated |
2009 | Best Animated Television Production[18] | Nominated | |
2009 | Best Writing in an Animated Television Production[18] | Daniel Chun for "Treehouse of Horror XX" |
Won |
2009 | Best Writing in an Animated Television Production[18] | Valentina L. Garza for "Four Great Women and a Manicure" |
Nominated |
2009 | Best Writing in an Animated Television Production[18] | Ian Maxtone-Graham & Billy Kimball for "Gone Maggie Gone" |
Nominated |
2010 | Best Animated Television Production[19] | Nominated | |
2010 | Directing in a Television Production[19] | Bob Anderson | Nominated |
2010 | Music in a Television Production[19] | Tim Long, Alf Clausen, Bret McKenzie, Jemaine Clement for "Elementary School Musical" |
Nominated |
2010 | Writing in a Television Production[19] | John Frink for "Stealing First Base" |
Nominated |
2011 | Best General Audience Animated TV Production[20] | Pending | |
2011 | Directing in a Television Production[20] | Matthew Nastuk | Pending |
2011 | Writing in a Television Production[20] | Carolyn Omine for "Treehouse of Horror XXII" |
Pending |
The Simpsons has won three British Comedy Awards. Matt Groening also won a special award for Outstanding Contribution to Comedy in 2004.[21]
Year | Category | Result |
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2000 | Best International Comedy Show | Won |
2004 | Best International Comedy Show | Won |
2005 | Best International Comedy Show | Won |
2007 | Best International Comedy[22] | Nominated |
The Simpsons has won 27 Primetime Emmy Awards in four categories, but has been nominated for 64 awards in eight different categories. Two of these nominations were for "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", which was nominated in 1990 as a separate cartoon because officially it is considered a TV special and not a part of the series, however it is included in these statistics. The show's best year was 1992, when it won six Emmys, all for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance. Until 2009, the Outstanding Voice-Over Performance Emmy was awarded by a committee, so there were no nominations.[23]
The Simpsons has been nominated for Outstanding Animated Program every year except 1993 and 1994. 1993 marked the first year that the producers of The Simpsons did not submit episodes for the Outstanding Animated Program Primetime Emmy Award.[24] Prior to 1993, the series had only been allowed to compete in the animation category, but in early 1993 the rules were changed so that animated television shows would be able to submit nominations in the Outstanding Comedy Series category.[25] The producers submitted "A Streetcar Named Marge" and "Mr. Plow" but the Emmy voters were hesitant to pit cartoons against live action programs, and The Simpsons did not receive a nomination.[24] Several critics saw the show's failure to gain a nomination as one of the biggest snubs for that year.[26][27][28] The Simpsons' crew again submitted episodes for "Outstanding Comedy Series" the next season, but these again were not nominated.[24][29] Since then, the show has submitted episodes in the animation category.
Year | Nominated Episode | Result |
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1990 | "Life on the Fast Lane" | Won |
1990 | "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" | Nominated |
1991 | "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" | Won |
1992 | "Radio Bart" | Nominated |
1995 | "Lisa's Wedding" | Won |
1996 | "Treehouse of Horror VI" | Nominated |
1997 | "Homer's Phobia" | Won |
1998 | "Trash of the Titans" | Won |
1999 | "Viva Ned Flanders" | Nominated |
2000 | "Behind the Laughter" | Won |
2001 | "HOMR" | Won |
2002 | "She of Little Faith" | Nominated |
2003 | "Three Gays of the Condo" | Won |
2004 | "The Way We Weren't" | Nominated |
2005 | "Future-Drama" | Nominated |
2006 | "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story" | Won |
2007 | "The Haw-Hawed Couple" | Nominated |
2008 | "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind"[30] | Won |
2009 | "Gone Maggie Gone"[31] | Nominated |
2010 | "Once Upon a Time in Springfield"[32] | Nominated |
2011 | "Angry Dad - The Movie"[33] | Nominated |
Year | Song | Episode | Music by | Lyrics by | Result |
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1994 | "Who Needs The Kwik-E-Mart?" | "Homer and Apu" | Alf Clausen | Greg Daniels | Nominated |
1995 | "We Do (The Stonecutters Song)" | "Homer the Great" | Alf Clausen | John Swartzwelder | Nominated |
1996 | "Señor Burns" | "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" | Alf Clausen | Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein | Nominated |
1997 | "We Put The Spring In Springfield" | "Bart After Dark" | Alf Clausen | Ken Keeler | Won |
1998 | "You're Checkin' In" | "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" | Alf Clausen | Ken Keeler | Won |
2002 | "Ode to Branson" | "The Old Man and the Key" | Alf Clausen | Jon Vitti | Nominated |
2003 | "Everybody Hates Ned Flanders" | "Dude, Where's My Ranch?" | Alf Clausen | Ian Maxtone-Graham and Ken Keeler | Nominated |
2004 | "Vote for a Winner" | "The President Wore Pearls" | Alf Clausen | Dana Gould | Nominated |
2005 | "Always my Dad" | "A Star Is Torn" | Alf Clausen | Carolyn Omine | Nominated |
Year | Episode | Composer | Result |
---|---|---|---|
1992 | "Treehouse of Horror II" | Alf Clausen | Nominated |
1993 | "Treehouse of Horror III" | Alf Clausen | Nominated |
1994 | "Cape Feare" | Alf Clausen | Nominated |
1995 | "Treehouse of Horror V" | Alf Clausen | Nominated |
1998 | "Treehouse of Horror VIII" | Alf Clausen | Nominated |
1999 | "Treehouse of Horror IX" | Alf Clausen | Nominated |
2001 | "Simpson Safari" | Alf Clausen | Nominated |
2004 | "Treehouse of Horror XIV" | Alf Clausen | Nominated |
2005 | "Treehouse of Horror XV" | Alf Clausen | Nominated |
2008 | "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" | Alf Clausen | Nominated |
2009 | "Gone Maggie Gone" | Alf Clausen | Nominated |
2011 | "Treehouse of Horror XXI" | Alf Clausen[33] | Nominated |
* denotes nominated works with awards pending presentation and announcement. |
Year | Episode | Music Director | Result |
---|---|---|---|
1997 | "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" | Alf Clausen | Nominated |
1998 | "All Singing, All Dancing" | Alf Clausen | Nominated |
Year | Song | Composer | Result |
---|---|---|---|
1990 | Main Title Theme | Danny Elfman | Nominated |
Year | Episode | Result |
---|---|---|
1990 | "Call of the Simpsons" | Nominated |
1991 | "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" | Nominated |
1992 | "Treehouse of Horror II" | Nominated |
1993 | "Treehouse of Horror III" | Nominated |
1995 | "Bart vs. Australia" | Nominated |
1997 | "Brother from Another Series" | Nominated |
Year | Episode | Result |
---|---|---|
1990 | "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" | Nominated |
Year | Episode | Animator | Result |
---|---|---|---|
2010 | "Postcards from the Wedge" | Charles Ragins | Won |
The Simpsons has won seven Environmental Media Awards.[1] All of the wins and most of their nominations were in the Best Television Episodic Comedy category, but the series received a nomination for the Turner Award in 2005, which is given to "the scripted, primetime television episode that best deals with the issue of population growth and responsibility".[34]
Year | Category | Episode/Character | Result |
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1991 | Best Television Episodic Comedy | "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish"[35] | Won |
1992 | Best Television Episodic Comedy | "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington"[36] | Nominated |
1994 | Best Television Episodic Comedy | "Bart Gets an Elephant"[37] | Won |
1996 | Best Television Episodic Comedy | "Lisa the Vegetarian"[38] | Won |
1997 | Best Television Episodic Comedy | "The Old Man and the Lisa"[39] | Won |
2001 | Board of Directors Ongoing Commitment Award | Lisa Simpson[40] | Won |
2002 | Best Television Episodic Comedy | "Brawl in the Family"[41] | Nominated |
2003 | Best Television Episodic Comedy | "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky"[42] | Nominated |
2004 | Best Television Episodic Comedy | "The Fat and the Furriest"[43] | Won |
2005 | Best Television Episodic Comedy | "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister"[44] | Nominated |
2005 | Turner Award | "Goo Goo Gai Pan"[44] | Nominated |
2006 | Best Television Episodic Comedy | "Bonfire of the Manatees"[45] | Won |
2007 | Best Television Episodic Comedy | "The Wife Aquatic"[46] | Nominated |
2009 | Best Television Episodic Comedy | "The Burns and the Bees"[47] | Nominated |
The Genesis Awards are given out annually by the Humane Society of the United States to "to the news and entertainment media for shining that spotlight into the darkest corners of animal abuse and exploitation."[48]
Year | Category | Episode | Result |
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1993 | Best Television Comedy Series[49] | Won | |
1994 | Best Television Prime Time Animated Series[50] | "Whacking Day"[51] | Won |
1995 | Best Television Comedy Series[52] | "Bart Gets an Elephant"[53] | Won |
1996 | Best Television Comedy Series, Ongoing Commitment | "Lisa the Vegetarian"[52] | Won |
2007 | Sid Caesar Comedy Award | "Million Dollar Abie"[54] | Won |
2009 | Sid Caesar Comedy Award | "Apocalypse Cow"[55] | Won |
The Golden Reel Awards are presented annually by the Motion Picture Sound Editors. The Simpsons has been nominated in the Best Sound Editing in Television Animation - Music category five times. In 1998, the show was nominated for Best Sound Editing - Television Animated Specials, and won.[56]
Year | Nominees | Episode | Result |
---|---|---|---|
1998 | Robert Mackston, Travis Powers Norm MacLeod & Terry Greene |
"Treehouse of Horror VIII" | Won |
1999 | Nominated | ||
2000 | Bob Beecher | "Treehouse of Horror X" | Nominated |
2000 | Chris Ledesma | "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" | Nominated |
2001 | Bob Beecher | "Last Tap Dance in Springfield" | Nominated |
2003 | Chris Ledesma | "Large Marge" | Nominated |
Year | Category | Result |
---|---|---|
1991 | Favorite New TV Comedy Series[57] | Won |
1992 | Favorite Series Among Young People[58] | Nominated |
2006 | Favorite TV Comedy Series[59] | Nominated |
2007 | Favorite Animated Comedy[60] | Won |
2008 | Favorite Animated Comedy[61] | Won |
2009 | Favorite Animated Comedy[62] | Won |
2011 | Favorite TV Family | Won |
The Simpsons has won seven Writers Guild of America Awards. The Animation category was introduced in 2003, and although the Futurama episode "Godfellas" won it in 2003, The Simpsons began to dominate the category, winning the award from 2004 to 2010 and receiving a total of 33 nominations in the category. There were only 13 other nominees in the category during that period.[63] In 2008, three of the series' writers received a nomination for Video game writing.[64] In 2011, the show's received two nominations in the category, and lost the award to Futurama's "The Prisoner of Benda". In 2009, the writers received their first nomination in the comedy series category.[65]
In 2006, long time writers Al Jean and Mike Reiss were given the Animation Writers Caucus Animation Award which is given to writers that "advanced the literature of animation in film and/or television through the years and who has made outstanding contributions to the profession of the animation writer."[66]
Year | Writer | Result |
---|---|---|
2009 | J. Stewart Burns, Daniel Chun, Joel H. Cohen, Kevin Curran, John Frink Tom Gammill, Stephanie Gillis, Dan Greaney, Reid Harrison, Al Jean Billy Kimball, Tim Long, Ian Maxtone-Graham, Bill Odenkirk, Carolyn Omine Don Payne, Michael Price, Max Pross, Mike Reiss, Mike Scully Matt Selman, Matt Warburton, Jeff Westbrook, Marc Wilmore and William Wright[65] |
Nominated |
Year | Nominees | Game | Result |
---|---|---|---|
2008 | Matt Selman, Tim Long, Matt Warburton and Jeff Poliquin[64] | The Simpsons Game | Nominated |
In 1996, The Simpsons became the first animated series to win a Peabody Award, and won it "for providing exceptional animation and stinging social satire, both commodities which are in extremely short supply in television today."[77] In 2000, The Simpsons were given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This applies to The Simpsons in person, not the series. The star is located at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.[78]
The Simpsons has never won a Golden Globe Award, but was nominated in 2002 in the Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy category, which it would lose to Curb Your Enthusiasm.[79] In 1998, the series was nominated for a British Academy Television Awards in the Best International Programme Or Series category, but would lose to The Larry Sanders Show.[80] In 1996, the "Homer³" segment of "Treehouse of Horror VI" was awarded the Ottawa International Animation Festival grand prize.[81]
At the Prism Awards, only one episode has won an award, but several have received commendations in the Comedy Series Episode category. These episodes are: "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" in 2001; "Strong Arms of the Ma" and "Three Gays of the Condo" in 2004; and "Three Gays of the Condo" in 2005.[82]
Year | Award | Category | Nominee | Result |
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2004 | Australian Kids' Choice Awards | Fave Video Game[83] | The Simpsons Hit & Run | Won |
2004 | Australian Kids' Choice Awards | Fave TV show[83] | Won | |
2005 | Australian Kids' Choice Awards | Fave TV show[84] | Won | |
2006 | Australian Kids' Choice Awards | Fave Toon[85] | Won | |
2007 | Australian Kids' Choice Awards | Fave Toon[86] | Won | |
2008 | Australian Kids' Choice Awards | Fave Toon | Nominated | |
2009 | Australian Kids' Choice Awards | Fave Toon | Nominated | |
2001 | American Comedy Award | Funniest Animated Series[87] | Won | |
1998 | British Academy Television Award | Best International Programme Or Series[80] | Nominated | |
2000 | CINE Golden Eagle Award[88] | "Treehouse of Horror X" | Won | |
1997 | GLAAD Media Award | Outstanding TV - Individual Episode[89] | "Homer's Phobia" | Won |
2002 | Golden Globe Award | Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy[79] | Nominated | |
2009 | Image Awards | Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series[90] | Marc Wilmore "Mypods and Boomsticks" |
Nominated |
2010 | Image Awards | Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series | Marc Wilmore "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly" |
Nominated |
1991 | Kids' Choice Awards | Favorite TV Show[76] | Won | |
2002 | Kids' Choice Awards | Favorite Cartoon[91] | Won | |
2008 | Kids' Choice Awards | Favorite Cartoon[92] | Nominated | |
2009 | Kids' Choice Awards | Favorite Cartoon[93] | Nominated | |
2010 | Kids' Choice Awards | Favorite Cartoon | Nominated | |
2008 | Prism Awards | Comedy Series Episode[82] | "Crook and Ladder" | Won |
2006 | Satellite Award | Best DVD Release of a TV Show[94] | "The Simpsons: The Complete Eighth Season" DVD boxset | Won |
2008 | Satellite Award | Best DVD Release of a TV Show[95] | "The Simpsons: The Complete Eleventh Season" DVD boxset | Nominated |
1993 | Saturn Award | Best Television Series[96] | Won | |
1990 | TCA Award | Outstanding Achievement in Comedy[97] | Won | |
2002 | TCA Award | Heritage Award[97] | Won | |
2007 | Teen Choice Awards | Choice TV: Animated Show[98] | Won | |
2008 | Teen Choice Awards | Choice TV: Animated Show[99] | Nominated | |
2009 | Teen Choice Awards | Choice TV: Animated Show[100] | Nominated | |
2011 | Teen Choice Awards | Choice TV: Animated Show[101] | Won | |
2007 | UK Kids' Choice Awards | Best Cartoon[102] | Won | |
2002 | Young Artist Award | Best Family TV Comedy Series[103] | Nominated | |
2004 | Young Artist Award | Most Popular Mom & Dad in a TV Series[104] | Julie Kavner & Dan Castellaneta | Won |
2004 | Young Artist Award | Best Family TV Comedy Series[104] | Nominated | |
* denotes nominated works with awards pending presentation and announcement. |
The Simpsons Movie was released on July 27, 2007 and has been a financial success, grossing over $500,000,000 worldwide.[105]
Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result |
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2007 | Annie Awards | Best Animated Feature[16] | Nominated | |
2007 | Annie Awards | Best Directing in an Animated Feature[16] | David Silverman | Nominated |
2007 | Annie Awards | Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature[16] | Julie Kavner for Marge Simpson |
Nominated |
2007 | Annie Awards | Best Writing in an Animated Feature[16] | James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Ian Maxtone-Graham, George Meyer David Mirkin, Mike Reiss, Mike Scully, Matt Selman, John Swartzwelder & Jon Vitti |
Nominated |
2008 | BAFTA Awards | Best Animated Film[106][107] | Matt Groening, James L. Brooks | Nominated |
2007 | British Comedy Awards | Best Comedy Film[21] | Won | |
2007 | Critics Choice Awards | Best Animated Feature[108] | Nominated | |
2007 | CFCA Awards | Best Animated Feature[109] | Nominated | |
2008 | Environmental Media Awards | Best Feature Film[110] | Nominated | |
2007 | Golden Globe Awards | Best Animated Feature[111] | Nominated | |
2008 | Golden Reel Awards | Best Sound Editing in Film: Animated[112] | Nominated | |
2007 | Golden Trailer Awards | Best Animated/Family Film Trailer[113] | Won | |
2007 | ITV National Movie Awards | Best Animation[114] | Won | |
2008 | Kids' Choice Awards | Favorite Animated Movie[92] | Nominated | |
2007 | MTV Movie Awards | Best Summer Movie You Haven't Seen Yet[115] | Nominated | |
2007 | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Animated Feature[116] | Nominated | |
2008 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite Movie Comedy[61] | Nominated | |
2007 | Producers Guild Awards | Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures[117][118] | James L. Brooks, Matt Groening Al Jean, Richard Sakai & Mike Scully[119] |
Nominated |
2007 | Satellite Awards | Best Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media[120] | Nominated | |
2008 | Saturn Awards | Best Animated Film[121] | Nominated | |
2007 | Teen Choice Awards | Choice Summer Movie - Comedy/Musical[122] | Nominated | |
2007 | UK Kids' Choice Awards | Best Movie[102] | Won |
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