At the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards in 2000, "All Star" was nominated for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, ultimately losing to Santana's "Maria Maria". Retrospective reviews from the editorial staff of both "Billboard" and "Paste" ranked it as one of the best songs of 1999, as did "Rolling Stone" writer Rob Sheffield and "Spin" writer Taylor Berman. "Billboard" staff writer Gab Ginsburg noted the song's lasting cultural impact following its appearance in "Shrek" and the "hundreds" of popular meme videos; Berman felt the song had "a life of its own" and became a "cultural artifact". Geoffery Himes of "Paste" called the song "the best reason to listen to top-40 radio in 1999". In a glowing review, Leor Galil of the "Chicago Reader" lauded the song for having "transcended genre" to become "permanently stuck in America’s hippocampus". Conversely, the staff of "Noisey" listed it as one of the worst songs of the 1990s, with writer Annalise Domenighini calling the song "the only argument we need for why ska-pop should have never existed in the first place".