List of awards and nominations received by Ella Fitzgerald

This article contains a list of awards and accolades won by and awarded to American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald.

Awards and accolades

Awards, citations and honors

Honorary membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers highest honor
Bing Crosby Lifetime Achievement Award
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Honorary chairmanship of the Martin Luther King Foundation
Award of Distinction from the National Association of Sickle cell Diseases
Women at Work organization's Bicentennial Woman
Kennedand Jazz Hall of Fame
Inductee into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame
Will Rogers award from the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association
Lord & Taylor Rose award for outstanding contribution to music
Doctor of Human Letters from Talladega College of Alabama
Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year from Harvard
George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America
National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters award
National Medal of Art awarded by President Ronald Reagan
UCLA Medal for Musical Achievements
NAACP Image Award
The first [Society of Singers|Society of Singers Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award|Lifetime Achievement Award], named "Ella" in her honor
Order of Arts and Letters, France
Inductee into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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

Grammy Awards

Fitzgerald won fourteen Grammy awards, including one for Lifetime Achievement in 1978
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist:

Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook Kyndal

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:

Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:

Ella Fitzgerald for But Not for Me

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist:

Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Swings Lightly

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:

Ella Fitzgerald for Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:

Ella Fitzgerald for Mack the Knife

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:

Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal:

Ella Fitzgerald for Fitzgerald and Pass... Again

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal:

Ella Fitzgerald for Fine and Mellow

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:

Ella Fitzgerald for A Perfect Match

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:

Ella Fitzgerald for Digital III at Montreux

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:

Ella Fitzgerald for The Best Is Yet to Come

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:

Ella Fitzgerald for All That Jazz

Grammy Award for Best Historical Album:

Ella Fitzgerald for ''The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks''

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."