Academy Awards

Emmy Awards

Grammy Awards

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.^[7]

Tony Awards

Honorary awards

• In 1989, Quincy Jones was presented with the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.^[39]
• 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.^[40]
• 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.^[41]
• 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.^[42]
• 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.^[43]
• In May 2021, Jones was one of 10 new members elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.^[44]
• In 2021, Jones was inducted into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, as a "foundational inductee".^[45]

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.^[54]