page_title: Fred Astaire
section_title: Awards, honors and tributes
hierarchical_section_title: Fred Astaire / Awards, honors and tributes
caption_attribution_description: A picture I took of Fred Astaire's feet/hand prints at Grauman's Chinese theater. Taken on September 3, 2007.
context_page_description: Fred Astaire was an American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer, and television presenter. He is widely considered the most influential dancer in the history of film.
  His stage and subsequent film and television careers spanned a total of 76 years. He starred in more than 10 Broadway and West End musicals, made 31 musical films, four television specials, and issued numerous recordings. Among most notable films where Astaire took the genre of tap dancing to a new level, should be mentioned Top Hat and Shall We Dance. As a dancer, his most outstanding traits were his uncanny sense of rhythm, his perfectionism, and his innovation. His most memorable dancing partnership was with Ginger Rogers, with whom he co-starred in a series of ten Hollywood musicals. The American Film Institute named Astaire the fifth-greatest male star of Classic Hollywood cinema in 100 Years... 100 Stars.
context_section_description: 1938: Invited to place his hand and foot prints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood
  1950: Ginger Rogers presented an honorary Academy Award to Astaire "for his unique artistry and his contributions to the technique of musical pictures"
  1950: Golden Globe for "Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy" for Three Little Words
  1958: Emmy Award for "Best Single Performance by an Actor"  for  An Evening with Fred Astaire
  1959: Dance Magazine award
  1960: Nominated for Emmy Award for "Program Achievement" for Another Evening with Fred Astaire
  1960: Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for "Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures"
  1960: Inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star at 6756 Hollywood Boulevard for his contributions to the film industry.
  1961: Emmy Award for "Program Achievement" for Astaire Time
  1961: Voted Champion of Champions – Best Television performer in annual television critics and columnists poll conducted by Television Today and Motion Picture Daily
  1965: The George Eastman Award from the George Eastman House for "outstanding contributions to motion pictures"
  1968: Inducted into the Hall of Fame of the International Best Dressed List
  1968: Nominated for an Emmy Award for Musical Variety Program for The Fred Astaire Show
  1972: Named Musical Comedy Star of the Century by Liberty, "The Nostalgia Magazine"
  1972: Inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame
  1973: Subject of a Gala by the Film Society of Lincoln Center
  1975: Academy Award nomination for The Towering Inferno
  1975: Golden Globe for "Best Supporting Actor", BAFTA and David di Donatello awards for The Towering Inferno
  1975: "You Gave Me the Answer", a song by Wings written by Paul McCartney in Astaire's style and dedicated to him in concert.
  1978: Emmy Award for "Best Actor – Drama or Comedy Special" for A Family Upside Down
  1978: Honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
  1978: First recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors
  1978: National Artist Award from the American National Theatre Association for "contributing immeasurably to the American Theatre"
  1981: The Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute
  1982: The Anglo-American Contemporary Dance Foundation announces creation of the Astaire Awards "to honor Fred Astaire and his sister Adele and to reward the achievement of an outstanding dancer or dancers"
  1987: The Capezio Dance Shoe Award (co-awarded with Rudolf Nureyev)
  1987: Inducted into the National Museum of Dance's Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York
  1989: Posthumous award of Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
  1989: Posthumous induction into the Television Hall of Fame
  1991: Posthumous induction into the Ballroom Dancer's Hall of Fame
  1992: The Dancing House in Prague is originally named "Fred and Ginger"
  1999: Posthumous award of Grammy Hall of Fame Award for 1952 The Astaire Story album
  1999: "Just Like Fred Astaire", a single by James (band)
  2000: Ava Astaire McKenzie unveils a plaque in honor of her father, erected by the citizens of Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland
  2000: "Fred Astaire", a song by Lucky Boys Confusion
  2003: Referenced in the animated feature The Triplets of Belleville, in which Astaire is eaten by his shoes after a fast-paced dance act
  2004: The "Adele and Fred Astaire Ballroom" added on the top floor of Gottlieb Storz Mansion in Astaire's hometown of Omaha
  2008: Life and work honored at Oriel College, Oxford
  2011, 2013: "Fred Astaire", a song, in a Portuguese and a later English version by Clarice Falcão
  2012: "Fred Astaire", a single and video by San Cisco
  2018: "Fred Astaire", a single by Jukebox The Ghost
  2019: "Movement", a single by Hozier, references Astaire in its lyrics
caption: Astaire's hand and foot prints at Grauman's Chinese Theater
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