ACME Whoopi! Awards
Academy Awards (Oscars) and Nominations
- Best Supporting Actress, Ghost, 1991
- Nominated for Best Actress, The Color Purple, 1986
Golden Globe Awards and Nominations
- Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical, Sister Act, 1993
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, Ghost, 1991
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama, The Color Purple, 1986
Antoinette Perry Award (Tony) and Nomination
- Nominated for Best Special Theatrical Event, Whoopi, the 20th Anniversary Show, 2005. Lost to
Billy Crystal 700 Sundays
- Best Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie, 2002
Producers: Michael Leavitt, Fox Theatricals, Hal Luftig,
Stewart F. Lane, James L. Nederlander, Independent Presenters Network, L.
Mages/M. Glick, Berinstein/Manocherian/Dramatic Forces, John York Noble, Whoopi Goldberg
British Academy Awards (BAFTA) and Nominations
- Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Ghost, 1991
Emmy Awards (primetime) and Nominations
- Nominated for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for her HBO special
Whoopi Back to Broadway -- The 20th Anniversary, 2005
- Governors Awards for the seven Comic Relief Benefit Specials, 1997
- Nominated for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for Hosting The 68th Annual Academy Awards, 1996
- Nominated for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for Hosting Comic Relief VII
(shared with Billy Crystal and Robin Williams), 1996
- Nominated for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for Hosting The 66th Annual Academy Awards, 1994
- Nominated for Outstanding Guest Actress on a Comedy Series, A Different World, as Professor Jordan in the episode "If I Should Die Before I Wake" (NBC-TV), 1991
- Nominated for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Dramatic Series, Moonlighting episode "Camille" (ABC-TV), 1986
Daytime Emmy Awards
- Nominated for Outstanding Talk Show Host, The View, 2007
Barbara Walters, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd, Co-Hosts
- Outstanding Special Class Special for Hosting Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie Mcdaniel, 2001
- Nominated for Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show, Hollywood Squares, 2001
John C. Moffitt, Pat Tourk Lee, Whoopi Goldberg, Executive Producers,
Stephen Radosh, Supervising Producer, Rebeckah Lee, Coordinating Producer, Naomi Grossman, Producer
- Nominated for Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show, Hollywood Squares, 2000
John C. Moffitt, Pat Tourk Lee, Whoopi Goldberg, Executive Producers,
Stephen Radosh, Supervising Producer, Susan Abramson, Co-Producer, Naomi Grossman, Producer
- Nominated for Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show, Hollywood Squares, 1999
John C. Moffitt, Pat Tourk Lee, Whoopi Goldberg, Executive Producers,
Stephen Radosh, Supervising Producer, Susan Abramson, Co-Producer, Naomi Grossman, Producer
- Nominated for Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show, Hollywood Squares, 1998
John C. Moffitt, Pat Tourk Lee, Whoopi Goldberg, Executive Producers,
Stephen Radosh, Supervising Producer, Susan Abramson, Co-Producer, Naomi Grossman, Producer
- Nominated for Outstanding Performer In A Children’s Series, Captain Planet and the Planeteers, 1990
- Nominated for Outstanding Children’s Special, Tales from The Whoop episode "Hot Rod Brown" (Nickelodeon - also co-produced), 1990
- Nominated for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special, CBS Schoolbreak Special "My Past Is My Own" (CBS-TV), 1988
Grammy Awards and Nominations
- Nominated for Best Comedy Performance Single or Album, Spoken or Musical, Fontaine: Why Am I Straight?, 1988 - 31st Annual GRAMMY Awards
- Best Comedy Performance Single or Album, Spoken or Musical, Whoopi Goldberg (Original Broadway Show Recording), 1985 - 28th Annual GRAMMY Awards
People's Choice Awards and Nominations
- Nominated for Favorite Funny Female Star, 2008
- Nominated for Favorite New Television Comedy Series, Whoopi 2004
- Special Tribute Award, 1998
- Favorite Actress in a Comedy Motion Picture, 1996
- Favorite Actress in a Comedy Motion Picture, 1995
- Favorite Actress in a Comedy Motion Picture, 1994
- Favorite Motion Picture Actress, 1993
- Favorite Actress in a Comedy Motion Picture, 1993
- Favorite Comedy Motion Picture, Sister Act, 1993
American Comedy Awards and Nominations
- Nominated for Funniest Female Performer in a TV Special (Leading or Supporting) Network, Cable or Syndication, 71st Annual Academy Awards, 2000
- Nominated for Funniest Female Performer in a TV Special (Leading or Supporting) Network, Cable or Syndication, Comic Relief VIII, 1999
- Nominated for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, 1999
- Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture (leading role), Sister Act, 1993
- Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, Ghost, 1991
NAACP Image Awards and Nominations
- Nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, Everybody Hates Chris, 2007
- Nominated for Outstanding Literary Work – Children, Whoopi’s Big Book of Manners, 2007
- Outstanding Actress in a TV Movie, Mini-Series, or Dramatic Special, Good Fences, 2004
- Nominated for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series, Whoopi, 2004
- Nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series, Whoopi, 2004
- Nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture, Kingdom Come, 2002
- Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, 1999
- Nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, The Nanny, 1999
- Nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Television Movie or Mini-Series, Cinderella, 1998
- Nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture, Ghosts of Mississippi, 1997
- Nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture, Boys on the Side, 1996
- Nominated for Outstanding Performance in an Animated/Live-Action/Dramatic Youth or Children's Series/Special, Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, 1996
- Nominated for Best Actress in a Television Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, 1994
- Outstanding Motion Picture, Sister Act, 1994
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture, Sister Act, 1994
- Nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture, Sarafina!, 1993
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture, The Long Walk Home, 1993
- Entertainer of the Year Special Award, 1992
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture, Ghost, 1992
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture, Clara's Heart, 1991
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture, Fatal Beauty, 1990
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture, The Color Purple, 1988
Other Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films - Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, Ghost, 1991
- Acapulco Black Film Festival - Best Actress Nominee, 1999
- Aftonbladet TV Prize, Sweden - Best Foreign TV Personality - Female (Bästa utländska kvinna), 1992
- All-Time Top 100 Voices in the Movies - #87 - filmcritic.com, 2005
- American Cinema Awards' Distinguished Achievement in Film
- American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) Lifetime Achievement Award
- amfAR Award of Courage for her efforts in the fight against AIDS, 2007
- Bay Area Theatre Award for her portrayal of comedienne Moms Mabley in a one-woman show, ca 1982.
- Drama Desk Award: Best Musical Thoroughly Modern Millie, 2002
- Drama Desk Award: Best Solo Performance, 1984
- Essence Magazine's "1997 Woman of the Year"
- FantaFestival - Best Actress Award, Theodore Rex, 1996
- GLAAD Media Awards, Vanguard Award, 1999
- Glamour Magazine's "1992 Women of the Year" for her professional and charitable accomplishments (one of ten winners)
- Godmother of Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises' newest vessel, the Manhattan
- Godmother of Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's Serenade of the Seas
- GRAND Magazine - one of nine finalists of the 2006 Sexiest Celebrity Grandparent Awards (Tony Danza won).
- Gracie Allen Award Strong Medicine, 2003 (Producer, shared with: Tammy Ader, Jeremy R. Littman, John Flynn, Rick Alexander and Carla Kettner)
- Harlem Globetrotters - "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter," 1989
- Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year, 1993
- Hollywood Walk of Fame - Star (motion pictures, at 6801 Hollywood Blvd), Nov 13, 2001
- Hollywood Women's Press Club's Golden Apple for Female Star of the Year
- Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels - commissioned by the governor of Kentucky
-
Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Oct 15, 2001
- Korbel Brut Rosé Champagne 1999 vintage comes in a bottle designed by Whoopi Goldberg
- L.I.F.E.'s (Love Is Feeding Everyone) "Hunger Hero Award"
- Mann's Chinese Theatre, prints of her hands, feet and braids were placed in cement, 1995
- Marshall's Women in Comedy Lifetime Achievement Award, 2002
- The Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress, Ghost, 1990
- Mr Blackwell's Worst Dressed List, 1995 - Most comedians do comedy routines -- Whoopi wears them!
- Mr Blackwell's Worst Dressed List, 1986 - Whoops! Running for a leader of the bag ladies from Ash-can Alley!
- Mr Blackwell's Worst Dressed List, 1985 - A cover girl for Sharecropper’s Monthly!
- MTV Movie Award nomination - Best Comedic Performance, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, 1994
- MTV Movie Award nomination - Best Comedic Performance, Sister Act, 1993
- MTV Movie Award nomination - Best Female Performance, Sister Act, 1993
- NATO/ShoWest Female Star of the Year, 1993
- National Association for Multi-ethnicity In Communications: 14th Annual NAMIC Vision Awards - Best Performance - Comedy: Whoopi Goldberg - The Word According to Whoopi/Bravo, 2008
- National Association of Social Workers "Si" Award, 1992
- National Arts Club Gold Medal in Film, 1998
- National Board of Review - NBR Award for Best Actress, The Color Purple, 1985
- Nickelodeon's Kid's Choice Award for Favorite Movie Actress - 5-time winner: 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1997
- Nor'East Miniature Roses, Inc. presented "Whoopi," a miniature rose named for her, Jan 1992
- Project Angel Food - Angel Award, Aug 18, 2001
- Razzie Award nomination for Worst Screen "Couple" as "Any Combination of Two People Playing Themselves (or Playing With Themselves)" in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn!, 1998
- Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress (Bogus, Eddie and Theodore Rex), 1997
- Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress (The Telephone), 1989
- San Francisco Walk of Fame - located at 7th St At Harrison St
- The Thalians named Whoopi "Ms. Wonderful" for her charitable contributions
- Theater World Award, 1984
- TV Guide Awards nomination for Personality of the Year, 2001
- UCLA's Jack Benny Award
- UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, September 19, 2003
- U.S. Comedy Arts Festival - AFI Star Award, 2002
- Warner Theatre's Walk of Fame, 1299 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington DC.
- Women in Film Tribute - Crystal Award, Jun 8, 2001
- Women in Film Tribute - Norma Zarky Humanitarian Award (shared with Billy Crystal and Robin Williams), 1991
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