Editing Duke Ellington (section)

==Awards and honors==
* 1960, [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]], contribution to recording industry
* 1964, Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Milton College 
* 1966, [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]].<ref name="pulitzer"/>
* 1969, the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]], the highest civilian award in the US<ref name="pulitzer"/>
* 1971, an Honorary PhD from the [[Berklee College of Music]]<ref name="pulitzer"/>
* 1973, the [[Légion d'honneur|Legion of Honour]] by France, its highest civilian honor.<ref name="pulitzer"/>
* 1999, posthumous Special [[Pulitzer Prize]] for his lifetime contributions to music and culture

===Grammy Awards===
Ellington earned 14 Grammy awards from 1959 to 2000 (three of which were posthumous) and a total of 25 nominations
{| class=wikitable
|-
! colspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | '''Duke Ellington [[Grammy Award]] History'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/factsheets/awardsdb/env-awards-db-search,0,7169155.htmlstory?searchtype=all&query=Duke+Ellington&x=8&y=6 |title=Entertainment Awards Database |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=February 2, 2013}}</ref><ref name="GRAMMYs"/>
|-
! Year
! Category
! Title
! Genre
! Result
|- align=center
| 1999
| Historical Album
| The Duke Ellington Centennial Edition<br />RCA Victor Recordings (1927–1973)
| Jazz
| {{won}}
|- align=center
| 1979
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band
| Duke Ellington At Fargo, 1940 Live
| Jazz
| {{won}}
|- align=center
| 1976
| Best Jazz Performance By A Big Band
| ''[[The Ellington Suites]]''
| Jazz
| {{won}}
|- align=center
| 1972
| Best Jazz Performance By A Big Band
| ''[[Togo Brava Suite]]''
| Jazz
| {{won}}
|- align=center
| 1971
| Best Jazz Performance By A Big Band
| ''[[New Orleans Suite]]''
| Jazz
| {{won}}
|- align=center
| 1971
| Best Instrumental Composition
| New Orleans Suite
| Composing/Arranging
| {{nom}}
|- align=center
| 1970
| Best Instrumental Jazz Performance – Large Group or Soloist with Large Group
| Duke Ellington – 70th Birthday Concert
| Jazz
| {{nom}}
|- align=center
| 1968
| Trustees Award
| National Trustees Award – 1968
| Special Awards
| {{won}}
|- align=center
| 1968
| Best Instrumental Jazz Performance – Large Group<br />Or Soloist With Large Group
| ''[[...And His Mother Called Him Bill]]''
| Jazz
| {{won}}
|- align=center
| 1967
| Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Large Group<br />Or Soloist With Large Group
| ''[[The Far East Suite|Far East Suite]]''
| Jazz
| {{won}}
|- align=center
| 1966
| Bing Crosby Award – Name changed to GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award in 1982.
| Bing Crosby Award – Name changed to GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award in 1982.
| Special Awards
| {{won}}
|- align=center
| 1966
| Best Original Jazz Composition
| "In The Beginning God"
| Jazz
| {{won}}
|- align=center
| 1966
| Best Instrumental Jazz Performance – Group or Soloist with Group
| ''Concert Of Sacred Music'' (Album)
| Jazz
| {{nom}}
|- align=center
| 1965
| Best Instrumental Jazz Performance –<br />Large Group Or Soloist With Large Group
| ''[[Ellington '66]]''
| Jazz
| {{won}}
|- align=center
| 1965
| Best Original Jazz Composition
| Virgin Islands Suite
| Jazz
| {{nom}}
|- align=center
| 1964
| Best Original Jazz Composition
| Night Creature
| Jazz
| {{nom}}
|- align=center
| 1964
| Best Jazz Performance – Large Group (Instrumental)
| ''First Time!'' (Album)
| Jazz
| {{nom}}
|- align=center
| 1961
| Best Instrumental Theme or Instrumental Version of Song
| "Paris Blues"
| Composing/Arranging
| {{nom}}
|- align=center
| 1961
| Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Score from Motion Picture or Television
| ''[[Paris Blues]]'' (Motion Picture) (Album)
| Music for Visual Media
| {{nom}}
|- align=center
| 1960
| Best Jazz Performance Solo or Small Group
| Back To Back – Duke Ellington And Johnny Hodges Play The Blues
| Jazz
| {{nom}}
|- align=center
| 1960
| Best Jazz Composition of More Than Five Minutes Duration
| Idiom '59
| Jazz
| {{nom}}
|- align=center
| 1959
| Best Performance By A Dance Band
| ''[[Anatomy of a Murder]]''
| Pop
| {{won}}
|- align=center
| 1959
| Best Musical Composition First Recorded<br />And Released In 1959<br />(More Than 5 Minutes Duration)
| ''Anatomy of a Murder''
| Composing
| {{won}}
|- align=center
| 1959
| Best Sound Track Album – Background Score<br />From A Motion Picture Or Television
| ''Anatomy of a Murder''
| Composing
| {{won}}
|- align=center
| 1959
| Best Jazz Performance – Group
| ''Ellington Jazz Party'' (Album)
| Jazz
| {{nom}}
|}
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===Grammy Hall of Fame===
Recordings of Duke Ellington were inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame Award|Grammy Hall of Fame]], a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings at least 25 years old that have qualitative or historical significance.

{| class=wikitable
|-
! colspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | '''Duke Ellington: [[Grammy Hall of Fame Award]]'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame |title=Grammy Hall Of Fame |publisher=Grammy.org |access-date=February 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122042616/http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame |archive-date=January 22, 2011 }}</ref>
|-
! Year Recorded
! Title
! Genre
! Label
! Year Inducted
|- align=center
| 1932
| "[[It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)]]"
| Jazz (single)
| Brunswick
| 2008
|- align=center
| 1934
| "[[Cocktails for Two]]"
| Jazz (single)
| Victor
| 2007
|- align=center
| 1957
| ''[[Ellington at Newport]]''
| Jazz (album)
| Columbia
| 2004
|- align=center
| 1956
| "[[Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue]]"
| Jazz (single)
| Columbia
| 1999
|- align=center
| 1967
| ''[[The Far East Suite|Far East Suite]]''
| Jazz (album)
| RCA
| 1999
|- align=center
| 1944
| ''[[Black, Brown and Beige]]''
| Jazz (single)
| RCA Victor
| 1990
|- align=center
| 1928
| "[[Black and Tan Fantasy]]"
| Jazz (single)
| Victor
| 1981
|- align=center
| 1941
| "[[Take the "A" Train]]"
| Jazz (single)
| Victor
| 1976
|- align=center
| 1931
| "[[Mood Indigo]]"
| Jazz (single)
| Brunswick
|1975
|}

===Honors and inductions===
{| class=wikitable
|-
! Year
! Category
! Notes
|- align=center
|2022
|Foundational
|June 18, 2022<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Aderoju |first=Darlene |date=June 13, 2022 |title=Black Music Month & Juneteenth 2022: Industry Celebrations (Updating) |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/black-music-month-juneteenth-industry-celebrations-2022-1235079450/ |access-date=June 14, 2022 |magazine=Billboard}}</ref>
|- align=center
| 2009
| [[50 State Quarters|Commemorative U.S. quarter]]
| D.C. and U.S. Territories Quarters Program.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/DCAndTerritories/ |title=The United States Mint · About The Mint |publisher=Usmint.gov |access-date=February 2, 2013 |archive-date=February 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110225011425/http://www.usmint.gov/mint%5Fprograms/dcandterritories/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="wapo">{{Cite news
 |author=Sheridan, Mary Beth
 | title = Ellington Comes Out Ahead in Coin Tossup
 | newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]
 | date = June 20, 2008
 | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061904090.html
 | access-date =October 3, 2009
}}</ref>
|- align=center
| 2008
| [[Gennett Records]] Walk of Fame
|
|- align=center
| 2004
| [[Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame]]<br />at [[Jazz at Lincoln Center]]
|
|- align=center
| 1999
| [[1999 Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer Prize]]
| [[Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards|Special Citation]]<ref name=pulitzer>[http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/1999-Special-Awards-and-Citations "The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Special Awards and Citations"]. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved December 3, 2013. With reprint of short biography and list of works (selected).</ref>

|- align=center
| 1992
| [[Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame]]
|
|- align=center
| 1986
| 22¢ [[List of people on stamps of the United States|commemorative U.S. stamp]]
| Issued April 29, 1986<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.centerforjazzarts.org/usps_exhibition2.html#ellington |title=Featured Exhibition |publisher=Center for Jazz Arts |access-date=February 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518025241/http://www.centerforjazzarts.org/usps_exhibition2.html#ellington |archive-date=May 18, 2013 }}</ref>
|- align=center
| 1978
| Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame
|
|- align=center
| 1973
| French [[Legion of Honour]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d5301c13.htm |title=NMAH Archives Center |publisher=Americanhistory.si.edu |access-date=February 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130222214/http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d5301c13.htm |archive-date=January 30, 2012 }}</ref>
| July 6, 1973
|- align=center
| 1973
| Honorary Degree in Music from [[Columbia University]]
| May 16, 1973
|- align=center
| 1971
| Honorary Doctorate Degree from [[Berklee College of Music]]
|
|- align=center
| 1971
| Honorary Doctor of Music from [[Howard University]]<ref>{{cite web | title = Recipients of Honorary Degrees (By Year) | publisher = Howard University | url = http://www.howard.edu/secretary/convocations/recipients-year.htm }}</ref>
|
|- align=center
| 1971
| [[Inductees of the Songwriters Hall of Fame|Songwriters Hall of Fame]]
|
|- align=center
| 1969
| [[List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients|Presidential Medal of Freedom]]
|
|- align=center
| 1968
| [[Grammy Trustees Award]]
| Special Merit Award
|- align=center
| 1967
| Honorary Doctor of Music Degree from [[Yale University]]<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Galston | first = Arthur | title = The Duke & I: A professor explains how jazz legend Duke Ellington became a doctor in 1967 | journal = Yale Alumni Magazine | date = October 2002 | url = http://archive.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/02_10/outoftheblue.html }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Yale Honorary Degree Recipients |publisher=Yale University |url=http://ris-systech2.its.yale.edu/hondegrees/hondegrees.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150521015848/http://ris-systech2.its.yale.edu/hondegrees/hondegrees.asp |archive-date=May 21, 2015 }}</ref>
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| 1966
| [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]]
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| 1964
| Honorary degree, [[Milton College]], Wisconsin
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| 1959
| [[Spingarn Medal|NAACP Spingarn Medal]]
|
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| 1957
| [[Deutscher Filmpreis]]: Best Music
|Award won for the movie ''Jonah'' with fellow composer [[Winfried Zillig]]
|- align=center
| 1956
| ''[[DownBeat]]'' Jazz Hall of Fame inductee
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