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List of awards and nominations received by Oprah Winfrey

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Oprah Winfrey awards and nominations
Winfrey in 2014
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Wins39
Nominations68
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  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.

This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Oprah Winfrey.

Oprah Winfrey is a talk show host, media mogul, producer, actor and commentator. She has received various accolades including 20 Daytime Emmy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Awards, 12 NAACP Image Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Tony Award.

Winfrey started her career as a talk show host where she gained immense stardom and popularity hosting the daytime talk series The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 to 2011. She received nine Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series and seven Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host. Additionally she won seven NAACP Image Awards and four People's Choice Awards. She also hosted the self-help talk series Super Soul Sunday from 2011 to 2021 where she won three Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Special Class Series.

As an actress, she portrayed Sofia in the Steven Spielberg directed epic period film The Color Purple (1985) for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture. She produced the Ava DuVernay directed Civil Rights historical drama Selma (2014) for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. On Broadway, she produced the musical The Color Purple in 2005 and it's revival in 2016 earning the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.

Over her career she has received several honorary awards including a Special Peabody Award in 1995, the Daytime Television Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Bob Hope Humanitarian Award in 2002, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2018. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored her with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2011. President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.

Major associations

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Academy Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1985 Best Supporting Actress The Color Purple Nominated [1]
2011 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Won [2]
2014 Best Picture Selma Nominated [3]

Emmy Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
Daytime Emmy Awards
1987 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show Won [4]
Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host The Oprah Winfrey Show Won
1988 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show Won [5]
1989 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show Won [6]
1990 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show Nominated [7]
1991 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show Won [8]
Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host The Oprah Winfrey Show Won
1992 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show Won [9]
Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host The Oprah Winfrey Show Won
1993 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show Nominated [10]
Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host The Oprah Winfrey Show Won
Outstanding Children's Special ABC Afterschool Specials Won
1994 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show Won [11]
Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host The Oprah Winfrey Show Won
1995 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show Won [12]
Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host The Oprah Winfrey Show Won
1996 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show Won [13]
1997 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show The Oprah Winfrey Show Won [14]
1998 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host The Oprah Winfrey Show Nominated [15]
Lifetime Achievement Award Honored
1999 Outstanding Daytime Talk Show Host The Oprah Winfrey Show Nominated [15]
2011 Chairman's Crystal Pillar Award Honored [16]
2012 Outstanding Special Class Series Super Soul Sunday Won [17]
2013 Outstanding Special Class Series Super Soul Sunday Nominated [18]
2014 Outstanding Special Class Series Super Soul Sunday Won [19]
2016 Outstanding Special Class Series Super Soul Sunday Nominated [20]
2017 Outstanding Special Class Series Super Soul Sunday Won [21]
2018 Outstanding Special Class Series Super Soul Sunday Nominated [22]
2020 Outstanding Special Class Series Super Soul Sunday Nominated [23]
2024 Arts And Popular Culture Program Oprah and "The Color Purple" Journey Won [24]
Primetime Emmy Award
1989 Outstanding Miniseries The Women of Brewster Place Nominated [25]
1994 Outstanding Informational Special Michael Jackson Talks... To Oprah Nominated [26]
2000 Outstanding Made for Television Movie Tuesdays with Morrie Won [27]
2002 Bob Hope Humanitarian Award Honored [28]
2013 Outstanding Information Special or Series Oprah's Master Class Nominated [29]
2014 Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special Running from Crazy Nominated [30]
2017 Outstanding Television Movie The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Nominated [31]
2019 Outstanding Limited Series When They See Us Nominated [32]
2021 Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special Oprah with Meghan and Harry Nominated [33]
2023 Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series The 1619 Project Won [34]
Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special The Light We Carry Nominated

Golden Globe Award

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1986 Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture The Color Purple Nominated [35]
2018 Cecil B. DeMille Award Won [35]

Tony Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2006 Best Musical The Color Purple Nominated [36]
2016 Best Musical Revival Won [37]

Miscellaneous awards

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Organizations Year Category Work Result Ref.
Acapulco Black Film Festival 1999 Black Film Award for Best Actress Beloved Won
NAACP Image Award 1989 Outstanding News, Talk or Information - Series or Special Oprah Winfrey: On Location in Forsyth County Won
1991 Entertainer of the Year Won
1992 Outstanding News, Talk or Information - Series or Special The Oprah Winfrey Show Won
1992 Outstanding News, Talk or Information - Series The Oprah Winfrey Show Won
1993 Outstanding News, Talk or Information - Series or Special The Oprah Winfrey Show Won
1994 Outstanding News, Talk or Information - Series or Special The Oprah Winfrey Show Won
1995 Outstanding News, Talk or Information - Series or Special The Oprah Winfrey Show Won
1996 Outstanding News, Talk or Information - Series The Oprah Winfrey Show Won
1998 Outstanding News, Talk or Information - Series The Oprah Winfrey Show Won
1998 Outstanding News, Talk or Information - Special Dinner With Oprah: A Lifetime Exclusive - Toni Morrison Won
1999 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture Beloved Nominated
2005 Hall of Fame Honored
2012 Outstanding Talk Series Oprah's Lifeclass Won
2013 Outstanding Talk Series Oprah's Lifeclass Nominated
2014 Outstanding News/ Information (Series or Special) Oprah: Where Are They Now? Nominated
Outstanding Talk Series Oprah's Lifeclass Nominated
Outstanding Talk Series Oprah's Next Chapter Nominated
2015 Outstanding News/ Information (Series or Special) Oprah's Lifeclass Nominated
Outstanding Talk Series Oprah Prime Nominated
Outstanding Variety (Series or Special) Oprah's Master Class Nominated
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Selma Nominated
2016 Outstanding News/ Information (Series or Special) Oprah Prime: Celebrating Dr. King and the Selma Marches 50 Years Later Nominated
2016 Outstanding News/ Information (Series or Special) Oprah: Where Are They Now? Nominated
2017 Outstanding Talk Series Super Soul Sunday Nominated
People's Choice Awards 1988 Favorite Talk Show Host The Oprah Winfrey Show Won
1997 Favorite Female Television Performer Won
1998 Favorite Female Television Performer Won
2004 Favorite Talk Show Host Won
2005 Favorite Daytime Talk Show Host Nominated
2006 Favorite Daytime Talk Show Host Nominated
2007 Favorite Talk Show Host Nominated
2008 Favorite Talk Show Host Nominated
Producers Guild of America 1999 Producer of the Year Tuesdays with Morrie Nominated

Honorary awards

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Organizations Year Award Result Ref.
Peabody Awards 1995 Personal Award Honored [38]
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award Honored
Jefferson Awards for Public Service 1998 S. Roger Horchow Award[a] Honored [39]
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 2002 Bob Hope Humanitarian Award Honored
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 2011 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Honored
Daytime Emmy Awards 2011 Chairman's Crystal Pillar Award Honored [40]
President of the United States 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom Honored [41]
Hollywood Foreign Press Association 2018 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award Honored

See also

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References

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  2. ^ "The 84th Academy Awards". Television Academy. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  3. ^ "The 87th Academy Awards". Television Academy. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  4. ^ "1987 Daytime Emmy Awards". IMDb. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  5. ^ "1988 Daytime Emmy Awards". IMDb. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  6. ^ "1989 Daytime Emmy Awards". IMDb. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
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  8. ^ "1991 Daytime Emmy Awards". IMDb. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
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  11. ^ "1994 Daytime Emmy Awards". IMDb. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  12. ^ "1995 Daytime Emmy Awards". IMDb. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  13. ^ "1996 Daytime Emmy Awards". IMDb. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  14. ^ "1997 Daytime Emmy Awards". IMDb. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  15. ^ a b CNN Editorial Research (August 5, 2013). "Oprah Winfrey Fast Facts". CNN. Retrieved June 7, 2023.
  16. ^ Oprah Winfrey – Crystal Pillar Chairman's Award. The Emmys®. June 19, 2011. Event occurs at 00:50:00. Retrieved June 7, 2023.
  17. ^ "2012 Daytime Emmy Awards". IMDb. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  18. ^ "2013 Daytime Emmy Awards". IMDb. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  19. ^ "2014 Daytime Emmy Awards". IMDb. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  20. ^ "2016 Daytime Emmy Awards". IMDb. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  21. ^ "2017 Daytime Emmy Awards". IMDb. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  22. ^ "2018 Daytime Emmy Awards". IMDb. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  23. ^ "2020 Daytime Emmy Awards". IMDb. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
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  32. ^ "2019 Emmy Nominations and Wins". Television Academy. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  33. ^ "2021 Emmy Nominations and Wins". Television Academy. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  34. ^ "2023 Emmy Nominations and Wins". Television Academy. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  35. ^ a b "Oprah Winfrey - Golden Globes". Golden Globe Awards. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  36. ^ "The 2006 Tony Awards". The Tony Awards. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  37. ^ "The 2016 Tony Awards". The Tony Awards. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  38. ^ List of Peabody Award winners (1990-1999)
  39. ^ "Multiplying Good - National Jefferson Award Nomination Form". Archived from the original on November 24, 2010. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
  40. ^ "2011 Daytime Emmy Awards". Las Vegas Sun. June 19, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2023.
  41. ^ Jackson, David (November 20, 2013). "Obama awards Medal of Freedom to Clinton, Oprah, others". USA Today. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
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