Frank Sinatra's Awards & Achievements
Few performers can claim as many honors as Sinatra

ACADEMY AWARDS

1945: Nominated, Best Original Song
- "I Fall in Love too Easily," from the motion picture Anchors Aweigh

- Music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn

- Sung by Frank Sinatra

1945: Special Academy Award

- To the makers of The House I Live In
- Shared with Frank Ross, Mervyn LeRoy, Albert Maltz, Earl Robinson and Lewis Allen

1954: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

- Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity

1954: Best Original Song

- "Three Coins in the Fountain," from the motion picture Three Coins in the Fountain

- Music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn

- Sung by Frank Sinatra

1955: Nominated, Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

- Frank Sinatra in The Man with the Golden Arm

1957: Best Original Song

- "All the Way," from the motion picture The Joker Is Wild

- Music by Jimmy Van Heusen, lyrics by Sammy Cahn

- Sung by Frank Sinatra

1959: Best Original Song

- "High Hopes," from the motion picture A Hole in the Head

- Music by Jimmy Van Heusen, lyrics by Sammy Cahn

1964: Nominated, Best Original Song

- "My Kind of Town" from the motion picture Robin and the 7 Hoods

- Music by Jimmy Van Heusen, lyrics by Sammy Cahn

1970: The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

 

EMMY AWARDS
1955: Best Song, "Love and Marriage"
1956: Nominated, Best Male Singer
1966: Outstanding Musical Program: Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music

1966: Nominated, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety or Music (Dwight Hemion): Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music
1969: Nominated, Outstanding Variety or Musical Program: Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing
1970: Nominated, Outstanding Variety or Musical Program: Sinatra
1973: Nominated, Best Directing in Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music (Marty Pasetta): Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra (aka Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back)
1974: Nominated, Outstanding Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music Special: Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra

 

GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS
1946: Special Golden Globe for The House I Live In
1954: Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture: From Here to Eternity
1958: Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy: Pal Joey
1963: Nominated, Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy: Come Blow Your Horn
1971: Cecil B. De Mille Lifetime Achievement Award

 

BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS (BAFTA)
1955: Nominated, Best Foreign Actor: The Man with the Golden Arm

1956: Nominated, Best Foreign Actor: Not as a Stranger

 

SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS
Lifetime Achievement Award, 1973

 

LAUREL AWARDS
1957: Top Male Musical Performance: Pal Joey
1958: Top Male Dramatic Performance: Some Came Running
1960: Top Male Musical Performance: Can-Can
1961: Nominee, Top Action Performance: The Devil at 4 O'Clock
1962: Nominee, Top Action Performance: The Manchurian Candidate
1965: Nominee, Top Action Performance: Von Ryan's Express
Nine-time nominee: Top Male Star: 1958-1964, 1966, 1967

 

NEW YORK FILM CRITICS AWARDS
Nominated, best actor: The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955

 

DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE POLLS
- Readers' poll Male Singer of the Year sixteen times between 1941 and 1966

- Readers' poll Personality of the Year six times between 1954 and 1959

- Critics' poll Male Singer of the Year twice, in 1955 and 1957

 

PLAYBOY MAGAZINE MUSIC AWARDS

- Jazz All-Star readers' poll Male Vocalist of the Year seven times between 1957 and 1963

 

PEABODY AWARDS

George Foster Award: Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, 1963

 

GOLDEN APPLE AWARDS

Least Cooperative Actor, 1946, 1951, 1974

Male Star of the Year, 1977

 

OTHER AWARDS, HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Medal of Honor Award, 1983

Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by President Ronald Reagan, 1985

Congressional Gold Medal, 1997

Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame, 1980

Inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame, 2007

Lifetime Achievement Award from the NAACP, 1987

Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Singers, 1990

Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Cinema Awards, 1992

Lifetime Achievement Aweard (The Desert Palm) from the Palm Springs International Film Festival, 1992

Three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame:

- For his contribution to motion pictures, 1600 Vine Street

- For his contribution to recording, 1637 Vine Street

- For his contribution to television, 6538 Hollywood Boulevard

Honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology, 1985
Honorary membership in Alpha Phi Delta

Ranked in the Quigley's Top Ten Money-Makers Poll five times: 1956 (#10), 1957 (5), 1958 (10), 1959 (7) and 1960 (8)

Amassed an annual income estimated at the end of his career in the tens of millions of dollars; this includes income from concerts, recordings, real estate ventures and holdings in several companies, including a missile-parts concern, a private airline, Reprise Records (which he founded), Artanis Productions (Sinatra spelled backwards) and Sinatra Enterprises.

Performed on more than 1,800 musical recordings

Performed in Rio DeJaneiro before an audience of more than 175,000 people, an audience certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest attendance at a concert by a soloist.

Every year on Sinatra's birthday, December 12, the Empire State Building is lit with blue lights in honor of his nickname, "Ol' Blue Eyes."

Named the "Greatest Voice of the Twentieth Century" by BBC Radio 2, 2001

 

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