The Winner

1985
Nominated for Academy Award for The Color Purple

1986
Nominated for Golden Globe

1987
2 DAYTIME EMMYS

1988
DAYTIME EMMY
PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD
International Radio & Television Society Broadcaster of the Year

1989
DAYTIME EMMY
4 NAACP IMAGE AWARDS

1990
2 DAYTIME EMMYS
NAACP IMAGE AWARD
America’s Hope Award

1991
2 DAYTIME EMMYS
NAACP IMAGE AWARD

1992
2 DAYTIME EMMYS

1993
2 DAYTIME EMMYS

1994
2 DAYTIME EMMYS
Inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame; Chicagoans of the Year Award from Chicago magazine

1995
2 DAYTIME EMMYS

1996
DAYTIME EMMY
George Foster Peabody Individual Achievement Award

1997
DAYTIME EMMY
2 NAACP IMAGE AWARDS
PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD
People magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People in the World

1998
2 DAYTIME EMMYS
2 NAACP IMAGE AWARDS
PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD
Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

1999*
50th Anniversary Gold Medal from the National Book Foundation National Book Awards
*Removes herself from Daytime Emmy consideration in two categories

2000
Primetime Emmy Award for Oprah Winfrey Presents: Tuesdays with Morrie

2002
Inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame; honorary Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Princeton University; Bob Hope Humanitarian Award

2003
Honors Award from the Association of American Publishers

2004
PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD
Global Humanitarian Action Award from the United Nations Association of the United States of America

2005
International Emmy Founders Award from the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame

2006
Named Literary Lion by the New York Public Library

2007
Elie Wiesel Foundation Humanitarian Award