List of awards received by Ella Fitzgerald
This page contains a list of awards and accolades won by and awarded to Ella Fitzgerald.
Awards and accolades
Awards, citations and honours
- Honorary membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha (1960)
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers highest honor (1965)
- Bing Crosby Lifetime Achievement Award (1967)
- Honorary chairmanship of the Martin Luther King Foundation (1967)
- Award of Distinction from the National Association of Sickle cell Diseases (1976)
- Women at Work organization's Bicentennial Woman (1976)
- Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Medal of Honor Award (1979)
- Inductee into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame (1979)
- Inductee into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame (1979)
- Will Rogers award from the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association (1980)
- Lord & Taylor Rose award for outstanding contribution to music (1980)
- Doctor of Human Letters from Talladega College of Alabama (1980)
- Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year from Harvard (1982)
- George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America (1983)
- National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters award (1985)
- National Medal of Art awarded by President Ronald Reagan (1987)
- UCLA Medal for Musical Achievements (1987)
- NAACP Image Award (1988)
- The first Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award, named "Ella" in her honor (1989)
- Order of Arts and Letters, France (1990)
- Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by President George H. W. Bush
- National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' Lifetime Achievement Award
- Pied Piper Award
- George and Ira Gershwin Award for Outstanding Achievement
- Honorary doctorates from Harvard University, Yale University, Dartmouth, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Howard University and Princeton
- VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock & Roll rank #13 (1999 – posthumous)
Grammy Awards
Fitzgerald won fourteen Grammy awards, including one for Lifetime Achievement in 1967.
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist:
- Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (1958)
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
- Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook (1958)
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
- Ella Fitzgerald for But Not for Me (from Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist:
- Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Swings Lightly (1959)
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
- Ella Fitzgerald for Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife (1960)
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
- Ella Fitzgerald for Mack the Knife (from Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife) (1959)
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
- Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson (1962)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal:
- Ella Fitzgerald for Fitzgerald and Pass... Again (1976)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal:
- Ella Fitzgerald for Fine and Mellow (1979)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:
- Ella Fitzgerald for A Perfect Match (1980)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:
- Ella Fitzgerald for Digital III at Montreux (1981)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:
- Ella Fitzgerald for The Best Is Yet to Come (1983)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:
- Ella Fitzgerald for All That Jazz (1990)
Grammy Award for Best Historical Album:
- Ella Fitzgerald for The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks (1995)
Grammy Hall of Fame
Recordings of Ella Fitzgerald were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance."
| Grammy Hall of Fame[1] | |||||
| Year recorded | Title | Genre | Label | Year inducted | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | How High the Moon | Jazz (Single) | Decca | 2002 | |
| 1958 | Porgy and Bess | Jazz (Album) | Verve | 2001 | with Louis Armstrong |
| 1956 | Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook | Jazz (Album) | Verve | 2000 | |
| 1957 | Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook | Jazz (Album) | Verve | 1999 | |
| 1960 | Ella in Berlin | Jazz (Album) | Verve | 1999 | |
| 1938 | A-Tisket, A-Tasket | Jazz (Single) | Decca | 1986 | with Chick Webb and His Orchestra |