Quincy Jones

Academy Honorary Award

Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame

Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical

For The Color Purple

Spingarn Medal

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Global Citizen Awards

National Medal of Arts

NEA Jazz Masters

California Hall of Fame

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

Marian Anderson Award

National Humanities Medal

honorary doctor of the University of Miami

MusiCares Person of the Year

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Grammy Legend Award

Grammy Trustees Award

Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award

Grammy Award for Record of the Year

For We Are the World

Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance

For We Are the World

Academy Award for Best Picture

For The Color Purple

Academy Award for Best Original Song

For Miss Celie’s Blues

Academy Award for Best Original Score

For The Color Purple

Grammy Award for Best R&B Song

For Yah Mo B There

Grammy Award for Record of the Year

For Beat It

Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

For The Wiz: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Academy Award for Best Original Song Score

For The Wiz

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score)

For Roots

Academy Award for Best Original Song

For For Love of Ivy

Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

For In the Heat of the Night

Academy Award for Best Original Song

For The Eyes of Love

Academy Award for Best Original Score

For In Cold Blood

Steiger Award

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Paul Acket Award

Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo

Library of Congress Living Legend

Kennedy Center Honors

Horatio Alger Award

honorary doctorate from Princeton University

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres

Commander of the Legion of Honour

BBC Jazz Awards