Awards, Honors and Tributes
- 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 Actor -Music/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"
- 1961: Emmy Award for "Program Achievement" in 1961 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: 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".
- 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
- 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 the Astaire Awards "to honor Fred Astaire and his sister Adele and to reward the achievement of an outstanding dancer or dancers". The awards have since been renamed The Fred and Adele Astaire Awards
- 1987: The Capezio Dance Shoe Award (co-awarded with Rudolph 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
- 1999: Posthumous award of Grammy Hall of Fame Award for 1952 The Astaire Story album
- 2000: Ava Astaire McKenzie unveils a plaque in honor of her father, erected by the citizens of Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland
- 2008: Conference to honor the life and work of Fred Astaire at Oriel College, University of Oxford, June 21–24.
Built in 1905, the Gottlieb Storz Mansion in Astaire's hometown of Omaha includes the "Adele and Fred Astaire Ballroom" on the top floor, which is the only memorial to their Omaha roots.
Astaire is referenced in the 2003 animated feature, The Triplets of Belleville, in which he is eaten by his shoes after a fast-paced dance act.
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