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Quincy Jones in 2014
This article contains a list of awards and accolades won by and awarded to
Quincy Jones .
Over his seven decade long career he has received numerous accolades including 28
Grammy Awards , a
Primetime Emmy Award , and a
Tony Award . He has received 7
Academy Award nominations with no competitive wins. He won the Academy's
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award .
Jones has also received numerous honorary awards and honorary doctorates. He received the
Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, the
National Medal of Arts in 2011 and was made Commandeur
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the Minister of Culture in France.
Major associations
Quincy Jones has 80 Grammy nominations and won 28 Grammy Awards, the second-most Grammys for a living person, and third overall. The list below is incomplete.
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Special honors
Honorary awards
In 1989, Quincy Jones was presented with the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award from the
Songwriters Hall of Fame .
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In 1994, he was awarded the
Polar Music Prize .
On March 26, 2001, Quincy Jones was made Commandeur (Commander) of the
Légion d'Honneur for his significant achievements in his career.
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On June 24, 2008, at the BET Awards, Quincy Jones was presented with the Humanitarian Award.
On October 1, 2008, Jones was presented with the Unity Through Music Award at Thank Q .
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On December 15, 2008, Jones was inducted in the
California Hall of Fame at
The California Museum in
Sacramento, California .
On September 24, 2009, Jones was honored with a
Clinton Global Citizen award for Leadership in Philanthropy.
In 2013, Jones was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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In October 2014, Jones was made Commandeur
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the Minister of Culture in France.
In 2015, Jones was the recipient of the Desi Arnaz Pioneer Award by the
Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame .
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In May 2021, Jones was one of 10 new members elected to the
Royal Swedish Academy of Music .
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In 2021, Jones was inducted into the
Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame , as a "foundational inductee".
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Honorary degrees
Citations
In July 1969, Jones's arrangement of "
Fly Me to the Moon " recorded by
Frank Sinatra and the
Count Basie Orchestra was the first music played on
NASA 's first lunar landing mission by astronaut
Buzz Aldrin .
In 2000,
Harvard University endowed the Quincy Jones Professorship of Afro-American Music with a grant of $3 million from
Time Warner . The endowed chair for African-American music, housed in Harvard's African and
African-American Studies Department, is believed to be the first in the nation, and is presently held by the ethnomusicologist
Ingrid Monson . Distinguished scholar and
public intellectual
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a close, personal friend of Jones.
In December 2009, Jones was honored by Swiss-watch manufacturer Audemars Piguet with a limited edition watch with a case back engraved with Quincy Jones' signature, and reading "Millenary Quincy Jones – Limited Edition" as a reminder of its exclusivity. Only 500 pieces of the watch were produced.
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