This article contains a list of awards and accolades won by and awarded to Quincy Jones.
Over his seven-decade-long career, he received numerous accolades, including 28 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. He received seven Academy Award nominations with no competitive wins. He won the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and an Academy Honorary Award.
Jones also received numerous honorary awards and honorary doctorates. He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, the National Medal of Arts in 2011 and received the French national honor of Commandeur Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the Minister of Culture in France.
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1967 Best Original Score In Cold Blood Best Song "The Eyes of Love" from Banning 1968 Best Original Song for the Picture "For Love of Ivy" from For Love Of Ivy 1978 Best Adaptation Score The Wiz 1985 Best Original Score The Color Purple Best Original Song "Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)" from The Color Purple Best Picture The Color Purple 1995 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award 2025 Academy Honorary Award
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards 1977 Outstanding Music Composition for a Series Roots: Part 1 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) 1977
Grammy Awards Quincy Jones has 80 Grammy nominations and won 28 Grammy Awards, the third-most Grammys for any individual.LA Times awards database, link. Retrieved June 29, 2008. Year Category Nominated work Result 1961 Best Jazz Performance Large Group The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones Best Arrangement "Let the Good Times Roll" (Ray Charles vocal) 1962 Best Performance by an Orchestra - for Dancing I Dig Dancers 1963 Best Original Jazz Composition "Quintessence" Best Performance by an Orchestra - for Dancing Big Band Bossa Nova Best Pop Instrumental Performance "Big Band Bossa Nova" 1964 Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Large Group Quincy Jones Plays Hip Hits Best Pop Instrumental Performance Quincy Jones Plays Hip Hits Best Instrumental Arrangement "I Can't Stop Loving You" 1965 Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini Best Instrumental Arrangement "Golden Boy (String Version)" Best Instrumental Performance - Non-Jazz "Golden Boy (String Version)" Best Original Jazz Composition "The Witching Hour" 1968 Best Score from a Motion Picture or Television Show In the Heat of the Night 1970 Best Instrumental Arrangement "Walking in Space" Best Large Jazz Ensemble Walking in Space Best Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television The Lost Man Best Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television MacKenna's Gold Best Instrumental Theme "MacKenna's Gold Overture" 1971 Best Instrumental Arrangement "Gula Matari" Best Instrumental Composition "Gula Matari" Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Gula Matari Best Contemporary Song "Soul Flower" 1972 Best Pop Instrumental Performance Smackwater Jack 1973 Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Dollar$ Best Pop Instrumental Performance with Vocal Coloring "Money Runner" Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella "Money Runner" 1974Best Instrumental Arrangement "Summer in the City" Best Pop Instrumental Performance You've Got It Bad Girl 1975 Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus Body Heat Best Pop Instrumental Performance "Along Came Betty" 1976 Best Instrumental Composition "Midnight Soul Patrol" 1978 Best Inspirational Performance "O Lord, Come By Here" Best Instrumental Arrangement "Roots Mural Theme" Best Instrumental Composition "Roots Mural Theme" 1979 Producer of the Year Best Arrangement for Voices "Stuff Like That" Best Instrumental Composition "End of the Yellow Brick Road" Best Instrumental Arrangement "The Wiz Main Title (Overture, Part I)" 1980 Producer of the Year Best Disco Recording "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough" 1981 Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) Best Instrumental Arrangement "Dinorah, Dinorah" 1982 Album of the Year The Dude Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal The Dude Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) "Ai No Corrida" Best Arrangement on an Instrumental Recording "Velas" Best Pop Instrumental Performance "Velas" Producer of the Year Best Cast Show Album Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music 1983 Producer of the Year 1984 Album of the Year Thriller Record of the Year "Beat It" Best Rhythm & Blues Song "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" Best R&B Instrumental Performance "Billie Jean" Best Recording for Children E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) Producer of the Year 1985 Best Arrangements on an Instrumental "Grace (Gymnastics Theme)" Best Rhythm & Blues Song "Yah Mo B There" 1986 Album of the Year We Are the World Record of the Year "We Are the World" Best Pop Duo or Group Performance "We Are the World" Best Music Video "We Are the World - The Video Event" 1988 Album of the Year Bad Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) 1989 Record of the Year "Man in the Mirror" 1991 Album of the Year Back on the Block Best Arrangement on an Instrumental "Birdland" Best Jazz Fusion Performance "Birdland" Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) "The Places You Find Love" Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group "Back on the Block" Best Pop Instrumental Performance "Setembro (Brazilian Wedding Song)" Producer of the Year 1994 Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux Best Music Video, Long Form Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux 1997 Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" 2002 Best Spoken Word Album Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones Best Arrangement, Instrumental Or A Cappella "Soul Bossa Nova" 2019Best Music FilmQuincy Special Grammy Awards 1989 Trustees Award 1991 Legend Award 1996 MusiCares Person of the Year
JASRAC Awards Year Category for Result 2025International Prize (highest revenue in royalties in Japan)Soul Bossa Nova
Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2006Best Musical (as a producer)The Color Purple 2016Best Revival of a Musical (as a producer)
Special honors Honorary awards In 1989, Quincy Jones was presented with the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.Songwriters Hall of Fame, 1989 Award & Induction Ceremony In 1994, he was awarded the Polar Music Prize. On March 26, 2001, Jones was appointed Commandeur (Commander) of the Légion d'Honneur for his significant achievements in his career. On June 24, 2008, at the BET Awards, Jones was presented with the Humanitarian Award. On October 1, 2008, Jones was presented with the Unity Through Music Award at Thank Q. On December 15, 2008, Jones was inducted in the California Hall of Fame at The California Museum in Sacramento, California. On September 24, 2009, Jones was honored with a for Leadership in Philanthropy. In 2013, Jones was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In October 2014, Jones was made Commandeur Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the Minister of Culture in France. In 2015, Jones was the recipient of the Desi Arnaz Pioneer Award by the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame. In May 2021, Jones was one of 10 new members elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In 2021, Jones was inducted into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, as a "foundational inductee". In 2025, Jones was posthumously inducted into the National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame.
Honorary degrees + State and academic honours for Streep Year Country or organization Award 1983 Berklee College of Music Honorary doctorate 1990 Seattle University Honorary degree 2005 United Negro College Fund Evening of Stars honor 2005 Dance Music Hall of Fame Honorary ceremony 2005 University of Pennsylvania Honorary Doctorate of Music 2007 Morehouse College Honorary Doctorate of humanities 2007 Harvard School of Public Health Mentor of the Year 2007 Harvard University "Q Prize" Gala 2007 UCLA Spring Sing George and Ira Gershwin Award 2008 Princeton University Honorary doctorate degree 2008 Washington University in St. Louis Honorary Doctorate of Arts degree 2008 University of Washington Honorary degree 2008 Garfield High School's Quincy Jones Performing Arts Center dedication 2009 Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Lifetime achievement Fellow 2010 Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Honorary Doctorate of Music
Citations In July 1969, Jones's arrangement of "Fly Me to the Moon" recorded by Frank Sinatra and the Count Basie Orchestra was the first music played on NASA's first lunar landing mission by astronaut Buzz Aldrin. In 2000, Harvard University endowed the Quincy Jones Professorship of Afro-American Music with a grant of $3 million from Time Warner. The endowed chair for African-American music, housed in Harvard's African and African-American Studies Department, is believed to be the first in the nation, and is presently held by the ethnomusicologist Ingrid Monson. Distinguished scholar and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr. was a close, personal friend of Jones. In December 2009, Jones was honored by Swiss-watch manufacturer Audemars Piguet with a limited edition watch with a case back engraved with Quincy Jones' signature, and reading "Millenary Quincy Jones – Limited Edition" as a reminder of its exclusivity. Only 500 pieces of the watch were produced.Perpetuelle.com: Quincy Jones Gets His Own Audemars Piguet Millenary Perpetuelle.com
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