Awards and Honors
In 1968, The Producers won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay—Written Directly for the Screen, and Gene Wilder was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
In 1969, The Producers won a Writers Guild of America, East Best Original Screenplay award.
In 1996, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
American Film Institute recognition
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies - Nominated
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs - #11
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs:
- Springtime for Hitler - #80
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes:
- "Not many people know it, but the Führer was a terrific dancer." - Nominated
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) - Nominated
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