List of awards received by Ella Fitzgerald

This page contains a list of awards and accolades won by and awarded to Ella Fitzgerald.

Awards and accolades

Awards, citations and honours

National Medal of Arts

Honorary membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha (1960)
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers highest honor (1965)
Bing Crosby Lifetime Achievement Award (1967)
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)

Presidential Medal of Freedom

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Medal of Honor Award (1979)
Inductee into the Big Band and 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)[1]
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 1967.

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist:

Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (1958)

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."

Year recorded	Title	Genre	Label	Year inducted	Notes
Grammy Hall of Fame[2]
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

Footnotes

https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/ella-fitzgerald/ National Women's Hall of Fame, Ella Fitzgerald]
Grammy Hall of Fame Database Archived July 7, 2015, at the Wayback Machine

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Ella Fitzgerald
Studio albums	Ella Sings Gershwin Songs in a Mellow Mood Lullabies of Birdland For Sentimental Reasons Miss Ella Fitzgerald & Mr Gordon Jenkins Invite You to Listen and Relax Sweet and Hot Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book Ella and Louis Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book Ella and Louis Again Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book Like Someone in Love Porgy and Bess Ella Swings Lightly Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book Get Happy! Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas Hello, Love Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from "Let No Man Write My Epitaph" Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! Rhythm Is My Business Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson Ella Swings Gently with Nelson Ella Sings Broadway Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book Ella and Basie! These Are the Blues Hello, Dolly! Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book Ella at Duke's Place Whisper Not Brighten the Corner Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas 30 by Ella Misty Blue Ella Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It) Ella Loves Cole Take Love Easy Fine and Mellow Ella and Oscar Fitzgerald and Pass... Again Lady Time Dream Dancing A Classy Pair Ella Abraça Jobim The Best Is Yet to Come Speak Love Nice Work If You Can Get It Easy Living All That Jazz
Live albums	At the Opera House Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert Ella Fitzgerald Live at Mister Kelly's Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife Ella in Hollywood Ella Returns to Berlin Twelve Nights in Hollywood Ella at Juan-Les-Pins Ella in Hamburg Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur Sunshine of Your Love Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall The Stockholm Concert, 1966 Ella in Budapest Ella à Nice Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72 Ella in London Montreux '75 Montreux '77 Digital III at Montreux A Perfect Match Sophisticated Lady
Other albums	Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues One O'Clock Jump Back on the Block The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books Pure Ella The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Vol. 1 Gold
Tribute albums	Dear Ella To Ella We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song
Filmography	Ride 'Em Cowboy Pete Kelly's Blues St. Louis Blues
Related	Discography Awards Ray Brown (second husband) Ray Brown Jr. (son) Louis Armstrong collaborations A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim Marilyn and Ella (2008 play)
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