List of awards and nominations received by Madonna

Madonna is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Bay City, Michigan, on August 16, 1958, and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1978, for a career in modern dance.[1] After performing as a member of the pop musical groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her self-titled debut album, Madonna in 1983, by Sire Records.[2] She received a Best New Artist nomination at the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) for the song "Borderline". Madonna was followed by a series of hit singles from her studio albums Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986) which gave her global recognition.[3] Madonna became a pop icon for pushing the boundaries of lyrical content in popular music and imagery in her music videos, which became a fixture on MTV.[4] In 1985, she received a number of VMA nominations for her music videos and two nominations in the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance category of the Grammy Awards. Billboard magazine listed her as the "Top Pop Artist" for 1985, as well as the "Top Pop Singles Artist" for the next two years.

From 1987 to 1990, Madonna won a number of awards at the VMAs for the music videos of her songs "Like a Prayer", "Express Yourself" and "Vogue". MTV also honored her as the "Artist of the Decade" in 1989. In 1990, the Hollywood Walk of Fame committee decided to award Madonna with a star on the Hollywood Boulevard sidewalk, but she showed no interest in accepting the recognition. The Blond Ambition World Tour won the award for Most Creative Stage Production at the 1990 Pollstar Concert Industry Awards; it was also nominated in the Major Tour of the Year category. Alongside her music awards, Madonna was honored for her charitable works in helping cure AIDS, by the AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) and American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmfAR). In 1992, Madonna won her first Grammy Award in the category of Best Long Form Music Video, for the video album of the Blond Ambition Tour. The video release of her 1990 compilation album, The Immaculate Collection, also won the Best Long Form Video award at the VMAs.

In 1996, Madonna played the starring role in the film, Evita, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy. Madonna's seventh studio album, Ray of Light (1998), became one of her most critically acclaimed releases,[5] and won her a number of Grammy Awards, while being nominated for the Album of the Year. It also won her the VMA for Video of the Year for the title track. From 2001 to 2008, Madonna embarked on four worldwide concert tours—Drowned World (2001), Re-Invention (2004), Confessions (2006) and Sticky & Sweet (2008)—which received a total of eight nominations at the Pollstar Concert Industry Awards, but won only one award for the Confessions Tour in 2006, in the category of Most Creative Stage Production. The Brit Awards have nominated Madonna in 12 categories, and in 2006 she won the International Female Solo Artist award, for her 10th studio album, Confessions on a Dance Floor. In 2007, Madonna won another Grammy Award in the Best Long Form Music Video category, for the live release of the Confessions Tour.

Madonna is ranked by the Recording Industry Association of America as the best-selling female rock artist of the 20th century and the second top-selling female artist in the United States, with 64.5 million certified albums.[6] She has sold more than 300 million records worldwide and is recognized as the best-selling female recording artist of all time by Guinness World Records. Madonna has won 20 VMAs from a total of 68 nominations, second highest number of accolades in the history of the award.[7] She is the first female artist to receive the lifetime achievement Video Vanguard Award. In 2008, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as one of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, and other people who have in some major way influenced the music industry.

AIDS Project Los Angeles
The AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) is a nonprofit organization, dedicated to improving the lives of people affected by HIV disease, reducing the incidence of HIV infection, and advocating for fair and effective usage of HIV-related public policy. Madonna was honored with the Commitment to Life Award for her contribution to the organization.[8]

Amadeus Austrian Music Awards
The Amadeus Austrian Music Awards is the annual awards ceremony for excellence in the Austrian music industry. Madonna has won one time from two nominations in 2006.[9]

American Foundation for AIDS Research
The American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmfAR) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the support of AIDS research, HIV prevention, treatment education, and the advocacy of sound AIDS-related public policy. Madonna was honored with the foundation's Award of Courage in 1991, for her charitable works to fight against AIDS.[10]

American Moviegoers Awards
The American Moviegoers Awards are held annually by Moviefone, an American-based movie listing and information service. Madonna won Best Actress award for her role in Evita (1996).[11]

American Music Awards
The American Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony created by Dick Clark in 1973. Madonna has been nominated eighteen times and has won three awards.[12][13]

AOL TV Viewer Awards
The AOL TV Viewer Awards is an award show held by America Online Inc. (AOL), with the winners selected by the audience for their favorite shows, performers and moments on television.[14] Madonna won "Best TV Concert" award in 2002 for her broadcast, ''Madonna Live! – Drowned World Tour 2001'', on HBO.[14]

Arion Music Awards
The Arion Music Awards (2002–07) was the official music industry award ceremony in Greece, organized by the IFPI Greece.[15] Madonna has won a total of four awards.[16][17]

ASCAP Awards
The ASCAP Awards are held by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
The annual ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards honors the songwriters and publishers of the most performed soundtrack songs. Madonna has won four awards.[18]

ASCAP Pop Awards
The annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards honors the songwriters and publishers of the most performed pop songs. Madonna has won six awards.[19]

ASCAP Rhythm and Soul Awards
The annual ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards honors songwriters and publishers of top R&B/Hip-hop, rap, reggae and dance music. Madonna has won four awards.[20]

Billboard.com Mid-Year Music Awards
The Billboard.com Mid-Year Music Awards are held by Billboard to recognize the most favorite artists, songs, albums and performances of the first half of year. Winners are selected through a poll in Billboard official website. Madonna has won four awards.[21]

Billboard Music Awards
The Billboard Music Awards are sponsored by Billboard magazine to honor artists based on Billboard Year-End Charts. The award ceremony was held from 1990 to 2007, until its reintroduction in 2011. Before and after that time span, winners have been announced by Billboard, both in the press and as part of their year-end issue.[12][22][23][24] According to Billboard, Madonna has won five awards.[25]

Billboard Music of the '80s Poll Awards
The Music of the '80s Poll was held by Billboard magazine in early 1990 to recognize the top music artists during the 1980s decade. Madonna was awarded as Pop Artist of the Decade and Dance Artist of the Decade, while her 1985 hit "Into the Groove" won Dance Single of the Decade.[26]

Billboard Music Video Awards
The Billboard Music Video Awards are sponsored by Billboard magazine to honor artists and their music videos. Madonna has won two awards.[27]

Billboard Touring Awards
The Billboard Touring Awards were established by Billboard magazine in 2004, to honor the concert industry's top artists and professionals for the year, based on the Billboard Boxscore chart, which tabulates the top-grossing tour as per reports from retailers.[28] Madonna has won four awards from a total of eight nominations.[29]

Billboard Women in Music
Established in 2007, Billboard Women in Music recognizes influential female artists and music executives who have made significant contributions to the business and who, through their work and continued success, inspire generations of women to take on increasing responsibilities within the field.[30]Madonna has been honored once.[31]

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
The Blockbuster Entertainment Awards was a film awards ceremony, founded by Blockbuster Inc. In 1998, Madonna was nominated for Favorite Actress by her role in Evita.[32]

Bravo Otto Awards
The Bravo Otto Awards are held by Bravo magazine, the largest teen magazinewithin the German-language sphere, to honor top performers in film, music, television and sport. Madonna has won seven awards.[33]

Brit Awards
The Brit Awards are the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards. Madonna has been nominated twelve times and won two awards, Best International Female in 2001 and International Female Solo Artist in 2006.[34]

British LGBT Awards
The British LGBT Awards celebrate the UK's most loved LGBT personalities, innovators and companies, dubbed the "Gay Oscars" by the press.[35] Madonna has received one nomination.

CableACE Award
The CableACE Award was an award that was given from 1978 to 1997 to honor excellence in American cable television programming. Madonna received one nomination in 1994 for the broadcast on HBO, The Girlie Show: Live Down Under.[37]

Danish Music Awards
The Danish Music Awards (Dansk Grammy, before 2001) is a music award ceremony presented by IFPI Denmark since 1989. Madonna has won four awards.[38][39]

Echo Awards
The Echo Awards is a major music ceremony in Germany, based on artists' sales of the previous year. Madonna has won three awards.[40]

Elle Style Awards
The Elle Style Awards is hosted annually by Elle magazine. Madonna has won one award, the Style Icon Award, in 2007.[41]

Emma-gaala
Emma-gaala (Emma Awards) is hosted annually by Musiikkituottajat, Finnishmusic industry federation, to recognize achievements in Finnish music industry. The Award for Foreign Artist of the Year was introduced in 2009 and Madonna was nominated that year.[42]

Fryderyk
The Fryderyk is an annual award ceremony in Poland, presented by the Związek Producentów Audio Video, the IFPI Poland, since 1994. Madonna has won one award, Best Foreign Album, for Ray of Light (1998).[43][44]

GLAAD Media Awards
The GLAAD Media Awards are presented annually by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in a ceremony held in New York City. In 1991, Madonna received the GLAAD Excellence in Media Award, presented to public figures in media and entertainment who, through their work, have increased the visibility and understanding of the LGBT community.[45] She received the Advocate for Change award in 2019.[46]

Golden Apple Awards
The Golden Apple Awards have been presented annually since 1941 by the Hollywood Women's Press Club to entertainers, in recognition of their behavior, rather than performance.[47] Madonna won the Sour Apple Award, given to actors for being rude or difficult, at the 52nd annual ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California in 1992.[47]

Golden Globe Awards
The Golden Globe Awards are awarded annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Madonna has been nominated seven times, both as an actress and as a songwriter. She has won two awards, Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her role in Evita (1996) and Best Original Song for "Masterpiece" from W.E. (2012).[48]

Golden Raspberry Awards
The Golden Raspberry Awards are awarded in recognition of the worst in film. Madonna has been nominated sixteen times, both as an actress and as a songwriter. She has won nine awards, including five Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Actress and two Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Supporting Actress, making her the actress with the most Razzies ever.[49]

Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Madonna has won seven awards from twenty-eight nominations.[12][50]

Guinness World Records
See also: Records and achievements of Madonna

The Guinness World Records is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. Madonna currently hold 16 Guinness world records.[51]

Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, California, with more than 2,000 five-pointed stars to honor artists for their achievement in the entertainment industry. Madonna was selected for the honor in 1990 but she showed no interest and the invitation has now expired. Walk of Fame spokeswoman Ana Martinez-Holler stated that in order to receive a star, Madonna would have to be "resubmitted for a nomination," adding, "since she is not interested, I highly doubt that she will give a nominator the permission to do so."[61]

Hong Kong Top Sales Music Awards
The Hong Kong Top Sales Music Awards is an annual award ceremony held by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry Hong Kong (IFPIHK) since 2001 to honor every year best-selling music artists.[62] Madonna has won three awards for Top Ten Best Selling Foreign Albums of the Year.[63]

Hungarian Music Awards
The Hungarian Music Awards (Golden Giraffe Awards, before 2004) is an annual award ceremony held by the Hungarian music industry association Mahaszsince 1992. Madonna has won two awards from six nominations.[64]

International Dance Music Awards
The International Dance Music Awards was established in 1985. It is a part of the Winter Music Conference, a weeklong electronic music event held annually. Madonna has won eleven awards.[65]

International Rock Awards
The International Rock Awards (1989–91) was a music award ceremony broadcast on ABC Television, to honor the top musicians in the genre of rock music; Madonna won two awards.[66][67]

Ivor Novello Awards
The Ivor Novello Awards is a music ceremony for songwriting and composing, presented annually by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. Madonna has won two awards from five nominations.[68]

Japan Gold Disc Awards
The Japan Gold Disc Awards is a music award ceremony, held annually by the Recording Industry Association of Japan. Madonna has won 17 awards, including the Artist of the Year award five times, more than any other artist.[69][70][71]

Juno Awards
The Juno Awards is a music ceremony in Canada, presented annually by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Madonna has received eight nominations and won two of them, International Album of the Year for True Blue (1986) and Best Selling International Single for "Vogue" (1990).[72]

Lunas del Auditorio
Lunas del Auditorio are sponsored by The National Auditorium in Mexico to honor the best live shows in the country. Madonna has won two awards from a total of three nominations.[73]

Meteor Music Awards
The Meteor Music Awards was an award bestowed upon to the best in music in Ireland. Madonna received one nomination in the Best Live Performance Visiting Act category in 2005.[74]

MTV Artist of the Decade
In 1989, Madonna was awarded the Artist of the Decade by a poll of MTVviewers in recognizing her achievement during the 1980s. Biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli documented that fellow pop star Michael Jackson had become jealous when Madonna received that honor.[75][76] He telephoned his attorney John Braca to complain that Madonna did not deserve such an honor. He said, "See, it makes me look bad. I'm the artist of the decade. Did she outsell Thriller?"[76] In response to his client's agitation, Branca suggested that they approach MTV with the idea of a fictional award they could give to Jackson. They decided to name it as Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Artist of the Decade Award. Jackson liked the introduction of the award, and commented, "That'll sure teach that heifer", referring to Madonna.[76]

MTV Australia Awards
The MTV Australia Awards are held annually by MTV Australia since 2005, to honor the best acts in the music video medium both from Australia and overseas.[77] Madonna has received six nominations.[78][79]

MTV Europe Music Awards
The MTV Europe Music Awards are held annually by MTV Networks Europesince 1994. Madonna has won four awards out of nineteen nominations.[80]

MTV Video Music Awards Latinoamérica
Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica or VMALA's was the Latin American version of the Video Music Awards. Madonna has been nominated for a total of 5 times.[81]

MTV Millennial Awards
The MTV Millennial Awards also known as MTVMiAw or MTV MA are awards created by MTV Latin America that reward the best of the Millennial Generationas well as rewarding music and films and the best of the digital world.[82][83]

MTV Movie Awards
The MTV Movie Awards is a film awards show presented annually on MTV. Madonna has received four nominations.[84]

MTV Video Music Awards
The MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) is an award show by the cable network MTV to honor the top music videos of the year. It was first held at the end of the summer of 1984, and originally was an alternative to the Grammy Award in the video category.[85] Madonna has won twenty awards from a total of sixty-eight nominations, second most win in the history of the award. She is also the first female artist to receive the lifetime achievement Video Vanguard Award.[12][85]

MTV Video Music Awards Japan
The MTV Video Music Awards Japan are the Japanese version of the MTV Video Music Awards. Madonna has been nominated for a total of 9 times.[86][87]

TRL Awards
The TRL Awards were established in 2003 to honor the best artists and guest appearances on the MTV's program Total Request Live (TRL). Madonna won the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 for her impact to other musicians over the course of her career.[88]

MuchMusic Video Awards
The Much Music Video Awards is an annual award show presented by the Canadian music video channel MuchMusic to honor the year's best music videos. Madonna has won one award from four nominations.[89]

Musician Magazine
Musician (1976–99) was a monthly magazine that covered news and information about American popular music. Madonna was given the Artist of the Decade award by the magazine in 1989.[90]

NetSounds Awards
The NetSounds Awards are presented by NME magazine to honor the online music industry. Madonna has won Best Music Web Event for the webcast of her concert at the Brixton Academy in London, for promoting her eighth studio album, Music (2000).[91]

Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards is an annual awards show that honors the year's biggest television, movie and music acts, as voted by viewers of American children's channel Nickelodeon. The award initially started as The Big Ballot in 1987, before being renamed as Kids' Choice Awards from 1988 onwards. Madonna has received two awards for Favorite Female Vocalist and one nomination for Favorite Song From a Movie.[92]

NME Awards
The NME Awards are an annual music awards show founded by the music magazine NME. Madonna has won two awards.[93][94]

NRJ Music Awards
The NRJ Music Awards is a major music ceremony in France, held annually by the radio station NRJ in partnership with the television network TF1. Since the show was created in 2000, Madonna has won four awards.[95]

Online Music Awards
The Online Music Awards were set up in 2000 by the Music Week group to acknowledge the efforts and creativity of musicians in the online world, and the creativity of music industry designers and programmers.[96] Madonna has won the Top Live Online Music Event award, for the webcast of her concert at the Brixton Academy in London.[96]

Orville H. Gibson Guitar Awards
The Orville H. Gibson Awards, named after the luthier who founded the Gibson Guitar Corporation, recognize guitar players for their artistic accomplishments and to "honor musicians who reflect the spirit of Orville H. Gibson and his belief in quality, prestige and innovation".[97] In 2002, Madonna was nominated for Les Paul Horizon Award, which honors the most promising up-and-coming guitarist.[98]

People's Choice Awards
The People's Choice Awards is an awards show recognizing the people and the work of popular culture. The show has been held annually since 1975 on CBSand is produced by Procter & Gamble.[99] Madonna has won two awards for Favorite Female Musical Performer in 1986 and 1987 and the special award Favorite Music Icon in 2016.[100][101][102][103]

Pollstar Concert Industry Awards
The Pollstar Concert Industry Awards is an annual award ceremony to honor artists and professionals in the concert industry. Madonna has been nominated fourteen times, winning Most Creative Stage Production twice.[104]

Porin Awards
The Porin Award is a Croatian music award founded by the Croatian Phonographic Association, Croatian Musicians Union, Croatian Radiotelevisionand Croatian Composers' Society. Madonna has won two awards.[105]

Premios Amigo
The Premios Amigo is a music award ceremony in Spain, presented annually by Productores de Música de España since 1997. Madonna has won one award from two nominations.[106][107]

Premios Oye!
The Premios Oye! (Premio Nacional a la Música Grabada) awards are presented annually since 2002 by the Academia Nacional de la Música en México for outstanding achievements in the Mexican recording industry.[108] Madonna has won two awards from five nominations.[108]

Recording Industry Association of America
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trust that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States. On November 10, 1999, Madonna was honored as the Top Selling Female Rock Artist of the 20th century for selling more albums than any other female artist in the rock category during the century.[109]

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a museum located on the shores of Lake Eriein downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated to the recording history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, and other people who have influenced the music industry.[110] Madonna was inducted into the Hall of Fame on March 10, 2008.[111]

Rockbjörnen
The Rockbjörnen is a music award ceremony in Sweden, established in 1979 by the Aftonbladet, one of the largest newspapers in Nordic countries.[112]Madonna has won a total of six awards.[113][114]

Saturn Awards
The Saturn Awards are awarded annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. Madonna was nominated in the Best Actresscategory for her role as Breathless Mahoney in the film Dick Tracy (1990).[18]

Smash Hits Poll Winners Party
The Smash Hits Poll Winners Party (1988–2005) was an awards ceremony held annually by British magazine Smash Hits, and broadcast on BBC One. Madonna has won six awards in the Best Female Solo Singer and Most Fanciable Female categories.[115]

Songwriters Hall of Fame
The Songwriters Hall of Fame is an arm of the National Academy of Popular Music. It was founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer and music publishers Abe Olman and Howie Richmond. According to their official website, the academy "honors those whose work represents a spectrum of the most beloved songs from the world's popular music songbook".[116] Madonna has been nominated for being inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame twice, for the 2014, 2016 and 2017 ceremonies.[117][118][119]

Space Shower Music Video Awards
The Space Shower Music Video Awards are an annual set of music awards sponsored by Space Shower TV in Japan. Madonna won the Best International Video for "Hung Up" in 2006.[120]

TEC Awards
The TEC Awards is an annual program to honor technically innovative products as well as companies and individuals who have excelled in sound for television, film, recordings and concerts.[121] Madonna has won one award from four nominations.[122][123]

Telegatto Awards
The Telegatto was an Italian television award sponsored by the weekly magazine TV Sorrisi e Canzoni and aired on Canale 5. Madonna won Best International Artist in 1992.[124]

Theatregoers' Choice Award
The Theatregoers' Choice Award is organized by leading theater website Whatsonstage.com and honors the performers and productions of British theater with emphasis on London's West End.[125] Madonna has won Theater Event of the Year for her role on the London West End theatre version of the play Up for Grabs.[125]

UK Music Hall of Fame
The UK Music Hall of Fame is an awards ceremony to honor musicians, of any nationality, for their lifetime contributions to music in the United Kingdom. In 2004, Madonna was inducted into the Hall of Fame as one of the founding members, along with The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Bob Marley and U2.[126]

VH1 Do Something! Awards
The VH1 Do Something! Awards honor people who have brought forward a social issue.[127] Madonna has won one award for her documentary film I Am Because We Are.[128]

VH1 Fashion Awards
The VH1 Fashion Awards honor every year the most fashionable musicians, designers and models. Madonna has won five awards.[12][129]

VIVA Comet Awards
VIVA Comet Awards were an annual awards ceremony, organised by VIVA Germany. Madonna has won one award.[130][131]

Wembley Arena Square of Fame
The Wembley Arena Square of Fame is located in front of the Wembley Arena, London, England. It features a strictly limited selection of bronze handprints of iconic and historic entertainment and sporting celebrities, in honor of their outstanding achievement. Madonna became the first act to receive that honor.[132]

World Music Awards
The World Music Awards is an international awards show founded in 1989 under the High Patronage of Albert II, Prince of Monaco and is based in Monte Carlo. Awards are presented to the World's best-selling Artists in the various categories and to the best-selling Artists from each major territory. Sales figures are provided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Madonna has received eight nominations in eight different categories.[133]