Ziegler was named by "Time" magazine as one of the "30 most influential teens of 2015" she made the list again in 2016 and in 2017. She was also on the "Harpers Bazaar" 2015 list of "19 Rising Style Icons Aged 19 and Under". "Billboard" selected Sia and Ziegler's performance of "Elastic Heart" on "Saturday Night Live" 2015 as one of the 10 Best SNL musical performances since the 1990s, "thanks in part to 12-year-old dance phenom Maddie Ziegler, who ... displayed power, vulnerability, and more than a little weirdness". Ziegler won a 2016 People's Choice Award, a 2016 Teen Choice Award and a 2017 Teen Choice Award. She was nominated for a 2016 Shorty Award and four 2017 Shorty Awards, where she won in one category and received an audience honor in another. In 2018 and 2019, "The Hollywood Reporter" named Ziegler among Hollywood's top thirty stars under age eighteen. In 2018, for the third year in a row, Ziegler won the award for Choice Dancer at the Teen Choice Awards.