Awards and Recognition
Bennett has won sixteen Grammy Awards and has also received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, as follows (years shown are the year in which the ceremony was held and the award was given, not the year in which the recording was released):
- Best Solo Vocal Performance, Male, 1963, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"
- Record of the Year, 1963, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, 1993, Perfectly Frank
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, 1994, Steppin' Out
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, 1995, MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett
- Album of the Year, 1995, MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, 1997, Here's to the Ladies
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, 1998, Tony Bennett on Holiday
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, 2000, Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool
- Lifetime Achievement Award, 2001
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, 2003, Playing with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, 2004, A Wonderful World (with k.d. lang)
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, 2006, The Art of Romance
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, 2007, Duets: An American Classic
- Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, 2007, "For Once in My Life" (with Stevie Wonder)
- Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, 2012, "Body and Soul" (with Amy Winehouse)
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, 2012, Duets II
Bennett has won two Emmy Awards, as follows (years shown are the year in which the ceremony was held and the award was given, not the year in which the program aired):
- Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, 1996, Live by Request
- Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, 2007, Tony Bennett: An American Classic
Bennett has gained other notable recognition:
- New York City's Bronze Medallion, 1969
- Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Induction into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame, 1997
- Lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, 2002
- Kennedy Center Honoree, 2005
- Induction into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Humanitarian Award, 2006
- National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award, 2006
- Induction into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame, 2007
- Induction into the New Jersey Hall of Fame, 2011
- Honorary doctorates from the Berklee College of Music (1974), The Art Institute of Boston (1994), Roosevelt University's Chicago Musical College (1995), George Washington University (2001), Cleveland Institute of Music (2010), the Juilliard School (2010), and Fordham University (2012).
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