# List of awards and nominations received by Ella Fitzgerald

This article contains a list of awards and accolades won by and awarded to American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald.

## Awards and accolades
### Awards, citations and honors

* Honorary membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha (1960)
* American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers highest honor (1965)
* Bing Crosby Lifetime Achievement Award (1967)
* Hollywood Walk of Fame
* Honorary chairmanship of the Martin Luther King Foundation (1967)
* Award of Distinction from the National Association of Sickle cell Diseases (1976)
* Women at Work organization's Bicentennial Woman (1976)
* Kennedand Jazz Hall of Fame (1979)
* Inductee into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame (1979)
* Will Rogers award from the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association (1980)
* Lord & Taylor Rose award for outstanding contribution to music (1980)
* Doctor of Human Letters from Talladega College of Alabama (1980)
* Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year from Harvard (1982)
* George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America (1983)
* National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters award (1985)
* National Medal of Art awarded by President Ronald Reagan (1987)
* UCLA Medal for Musical Achievements (1987)
* NAACP Image Award (1988)
* The first Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award, named "Ella" in her honor (1989)
* Order of Arts and Letters, France (1990)
* Inductee into the National Women's Hall of Fame (1995)
* Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by President George H. W. Bush
* National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' Lifetime Achievement Award
* Pied Piper Award
* George and Ira Gershwin Award for Outstanding Achievement
* Honorary doctorates from Harvard University, Yale University, Dartmouth, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Howard University and Princeton
* VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock & Roll rank #13 (1999 – posthumous)

### Grammy Awards

Fitzgerald won fourteen Grammy awards, including one for Lifetime Achievement in 1978
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist:
* Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook Kyndal
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
* Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook (1958)
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
* Ella Fitzgerald for But Not for Me (from Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist:
* Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Swings Lightly (1959)
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
* Ella Fitzgerald for Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife (1960)
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
* Ella Fitzgerald for Mack the Knife (from Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife) (1959)
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
* Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson (1962)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal:
* Ella Fitzgerald for Fitzgerald and Pass... Again (1976)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal:
* Ella Fitzgerald for Fine and Mellow (1979)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:
* Ella Fitzgerald for A Perfect Match (1980)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:
* Ella Fitzgerald for Digital III at Montreux (1981)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:
* Ella Fitzgerald for The Best Is Yet to Come (1983)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:
* Ella Fitzgerald for All That Jazz (1990)
Grammy Award for Best Historical Album:
* Ella Fitzgerald for The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks (1995)

### Grammy Hall of Fame

Recordings of Ella Fitzgerald were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance."
Grammy Hall of Fame :
| Year recorded | Title | Genre | Label | Year inducted | Notes |
| 1960 | "How High the Moon" | Jazz (Single) | Decca | 2002 | |
| 1958 | Porgy and Bess | Jazz (Album) | Verve | 2001 | with Louis Armstrong |
| 1956 | Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook | Jazz (Album) | Verve | 2000 | |
| 1957 | Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook | Jazz (Album) | Verve | 1999 | |
| 1960 | Ella in Berlin | Jazz (Album) | Verve | 1999 | |
| 1938 | "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" | Jazz (Single) | Decca | 1987 | with Chick Webb and His Orchestra |