# List of awards and nominations received by Whoopi Goldberg

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).
Goldberg has received two Academy Award nominations, for The Color Purple and Ghost, winning for Ghost. 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. 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.
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. 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.

## Major associations
### Academy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 1985 | Best Actress | The Color Purple | Nominated | |
| 1990 | Best Supporting Actress | Ghost | Won | |

### BAFTA Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| British Academy Film Awards |||||
| 1990 | Best Supporting Actress | Ghost | Won | |

### Emmy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| Primetime Emmy Awards |||||
| 1986 | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series | Moonlighting | Nominated |
| 1991 | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | A Different World | Nominated |
| 1994 | Outstanding Performance in a Variety Program | 66th Academy Awards | Nominated |
| 1996 | Outstanding Performance in a Variety Program | 68th Academy Awards | Nominated |
| 1996 | Outstanding Performance in a Variety Program | Comic Relief VII | Nominated |
| 2005 | Outstanding Performance in a Variety Program | Whoopi: Back to Broadway | Nominated |
| 2009 | Outstanding Special Class Program | 62nd Tony Awards | Nominated |
| 2014 | Outstanding Documentary Special | Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin' to Tell You | Nominated |
| 2014 | Outstanding Narrator | Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin' to Tell You | Nominated |
| Daytime Emmy Awards |||||
| 1989 | Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special | CBS Schoolbreak Special | Nominated |
| 1991 | Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special | Captain Planet and the Planeteers | Nominated |
| 1991 | Outstanding Children's Special | Tales from the Whoop: Hot Rod Brown Class Clown | Nominated |
| 1999 | Outstanding Audience Game Show | Hollywood Squares | Nominated |
| 2000 | Outstanding Audience Game Show | Hollywood Squares | Nominated |
| 2001 | Outstanding Audience Game Show | Hollywood Squares | Nominated |
| 2002 | Outstanding Audience Game Show | Hollywood Squares | Nominated |
| 2002 | Outstanding Special Class Special | Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel | Won |
| 2008 | Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host | The View | Nominated |
| 2009 | Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host | The View | Won |
| 2010 | Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host | The View | Nominated |
| 2011 | Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host | The View | Nominated |
| 2014 | Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host | The View | Nominated |
| 2016 | Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host | The View | Nominated |
| 2017 | Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host | The View | Nominated |
| 2018 | Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host | The View | Nominated |
| 2019 | Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host | The View | Nominated |
| 2020 | Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host | The View | Nominated |

### Golden Globe Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1985 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | The Color Purple | Won |
| 1990 | Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | Ghost | Won |
| 1992 | Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | Sister Act | Nominated |

### Grammy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 1986 | Best Comedy Album | Whoopi Goldberg: Original Broadway Show Recording | Won | |
| 1989 | Best Comedy Album | Fontaine: Why Am I Straight? | Nominated | |

### Tony Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2002 | Best Musical | Thoroughly Modern Millie | Won |
| 2005 | Best Special Theatrical Event | Whoopi the 20th Anniversary Show | Nominated |
| 2011 | Best Musical | Sister Act | Nominated |

## Miscellaneous awards

| Organizations | Year | Category | Project | Result |
| Audie Awards | 2010 | Audiobook of the Year | Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales | Won |
| Audie Awards | 2010 | Multi-Voiced Performance | Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales | Won |
| Saturn Awards | 1991 | Best Supporting Actress | Ghost | Won |
| Saturn Awards | 1995 | Best Supporting Actress | Star Trek Generations | Nominated |

## Other theatre awards

| Organizations | Year | Category | Project | Result |
| Drama Desk Awards | 1985 | Outstanding Solo Performance | Whoopi Goldberg | Won |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | 1985 | Outstanding Debut Performance | Whoopi Goldberg | Won |
| Theatre World Award | 1985 | Theatre World Award | Whoopi Goldberg | Won |

## Honorary awards

| Organizations | Year | Notes | Result |
| Harvard University | 1993 | Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year | Honored |
| GLAAD Media Awards | 1999 | GLAAD Vanguard Award | Honored |
| Mark Twain Prize for American Humor | 2001 | Statue | Honored |
| Hollywood Walk of Fame | 2001 | Motion Picture Star | Honored |
| US Comedy Arts Festival | 2002 | AFI Star Award | Honored |
| Temple University | 2013 | Lew Klein Award | Honored |
| Variety Power of Women Awards | 2015 | Power of Women Award | Honored |
| Disney Legend Award | 2017 | Hall of Fame Inductee | Honored |
| Essence Black Women in Hollywood | 2021 | Honoree | Honored |
| Ellis Island Medal of Honor | 2024 | Medal | Honored |

## Honorary degrees

| Organizations | Year | Notes | Ref. |
| Wilson College | 1987 | Honorary Humanities degree | |
| Goodwin University | 2018 | Honorary degree (doctorate of letters) | |