Awards and Certificates
- RIAA gold and platinum certifications
- Images and Words (Gold) – February 2, 1995
- Metropolis 2000: Live Scenes From New York (Gold) – November 8, 2002
- Live at Budokan (DVD) (Platinum) – January 26, 2005
- Live in Tokyo/5 Years in a Livetime (Platinum) – March 22, 2006
- Score (DVD) (Platinum) – October 11, 2006
- Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory (Gold) – 2010
- Other platinum and gold certifications
- Awake (Platinum) (Japan)
- Keyboard magazine
Jordan Rudess was awarded the following Keyboard Magazine Reader's Poll award:
- Best New Talent (1994)
- Burrn! magazine
Jordan Rudess was awarded:
- Best keyboards player of the year (2007)
- Guitar World
The album Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory was ranked No. 95 on the magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Albums of All Time.
- Total Guitar Paul Gillard
John Petrucci won Guitarist of the year award (2007)
- Ultimate Guitar Archive
In 2009, Dream Theater were placed on the Top 10 in Ultimate Guitar's The Greatest Metal Bands of the Decade.
- Classic Rock magazine
Dream Theater won The Spirit of Prog Award at the Classic Rock Roll of Honour 2009 in London. They were also nominated for the Album of the Year Award for their album, Black Clouds & Silver Linings in 2009, but lost to AC/DC's Black Ice.
- Rolling Stone
In July 25, 2011, Dream Theater were placed on the list "The Best Prog Rock Bands of All Time", chosen by the Rolling Stone Magazine's readers poll.
- MusicRadar
The MusicRadar readers poll placed them amongst "The 30 greatest live acts in the world today" (as of 2010). They peaked No. 5 on the list, placed over artists like Metallica, Muse, U2 and Coldplay.
John Myung, from August through September 2010, was voted the greatest bassist of all time. In the same time frame, Mike Portnoy was voted the second best drummer ever, losing out to Joey Jordison. In December 2010, James LaBrie was voted the 15th best frontman of all time (with Axl Rose coming first and Freddie Mercury in second). Jordan Rudess was voted the best keyboardist of all time in a poll conducted from June to July this year, with John Petrucci coming second in a shred-guitarist poll conducted in May this year (losing out to Al Di Meola).
- Other recognitions
- At Dream Theater's Salt Lake City show, Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. signed a proclamation making July 30, 2007, "Dream Theater Day".
- Dream Theater played twice on Xbox 360s Game With Fame event. They played Halo 3 in December 2007 and Call of Duty: World at War in June 2009.
- On November 2010, Dream Theater was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame.
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