List of awards and nominations received by Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg awards and nominations
Goldberg at the World for Peace event in 2011
Totals[a]
Wins70
Nominations119
Note
  1. ^ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They recognize 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 Whoopi Goldberg.

Whoopi Goldberg is an American actress who has received many awards and nominations for her film, television, and stage work. Having acted in over 150 films, Goldberg is one of the few people to achieve the EGOT, having won the four major American awards for professional entertainers: an Emmy (Television), a Grammy (Music), an Oscar (Film), and a Tony (Theater).[1]

Goldberg has received two Academy Award nominations, for The Color Purple and Ghost, winning for Ghost.[2][3] She is the first African American to have received Academy Award nominations for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. She has received three Golden Globe nominations, winning two (Best Actress in 1986 for The Color Purple, and Best Supporting Actress in 1991 for Ghost). For Ghost, she also won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1991.[4] In February 2002, Goldberg sent her Oscar statuette from Ghost to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be cleaned and replated. During this time, the statuette was taken from its shipping container and later retrieved by the shipping company, UPS.[5]

She won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording in 1985 for "Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway," becoming only the second solo female performer—not part of a duo or team—at the time to receive the award, and the first African-American woman. Goldberg is one of only three single women performers to receive that award.[6][7] She won a Tony Award in 2002 as a producer of the Broadway musical Thoroughly Modern Millie. She has received eight Daytime Emmy nominations, winning two. She has received nine Primetime Emmy nominations. In 2009, Goldberg won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host for her role on The View. She shared the award with her then co-hosts Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Barbara Walters.

  1. ^ "The EGOT Club: 15 Hollywood Heavyweights Who Have Won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  2. ^ "1986 Oscar Nominations". Oscars.org. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  3. ^ "THE 63RD ACADEMY AWARDS - 1991". Oscars.org. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  4. ^ "BAFTA Awards". Retrieved December 25, 2016.
  5. ^ Silverman, Stephen M. (February 6, 2002). "Whoopi Goldberg's Oscar: Lost & Found". People. Retrieved March 15, 2008.
  6. ^ "Whoopi Goldberg - Artist". Grammys.com. November 19, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  7. ^ "A Brief History of Female Best Comedy Album Nominees at the Grammys". Paste. January 26, 2013.