Editing Bill Cosby (section)

==Awards and honors==
{{main|List of awards and nominations received by Bill Cosby|List of honorary degrees awarded to Bill Cosby}}
[[File:Bill-Cosby.JPG|thumb|Cosby's star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]], awarded in 1977<ref>{{cite news |last=Derschowitz |first=Jessica |title=Bill Cosby's Hollywood Walk of Fame star vandalized |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-cosby-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-vandalized/ |publisher=CBS News |date=December 5, 2014 |access-date=April 9, 2018}}</ref>]]Cosby received various awards and numerous honorary degrees for his work as a standup comedian and actor in both television and film including five [[Primetime Emmy Awards]], eight [[Grammy Awards]], two [[Daytime Emmy Awards]], and two [[Golden Globe Awards]]. He also received the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from [[George W. Bush]] in 2002, and the [[Bob Hope Humanitarian Award]] in 2003. He also received a Star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] in 1977.

Due to the [[Bill Cosby sexual assault cases|sexual assault allegations]] against Cosby, numerous awards and honors were rescinded, including the [[Kennedy Center Honor]] that he received in 1998 and was rescinded in 2018,<ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=Biography of Bill Cosby |url=http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3713&source_type=A |url-status=dead |publisher=[[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]] |access-date=February 23, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070216143109/http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3713&source_type=A |archive-date=February 16, 2007}}</ref><ref name="Washington Post">{{cite news |last=McGlone |first=Peggy |title=Kennedy Center rescinds Honors, Twain awards given to Bill Cosby |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/05/07/kennedy-center-rescinds-honors-twain-awards-given-to-bill-cosby/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=May 7, 2018}}</ref> as well as the [[Mark Twain Prize for American Humor]], which he received in 2009 and was rescinded in 2018.<ref name="NYT_2009-10-28">{{cite news |last=Itzkoff |first=Dave |author-link=Dave Itzkoff |title=Bill Cosby receives Mark Twain Prize |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/arts/television/28arts-BILLCOSBYREC_BRF.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 27, 2009 |access-date=September 22, 2013}}</ref><ref name="WashingtonPost-AR2009102603704">{{cite news |last=Farhi |first=Paul |title=Bill Cosby is awarded the Twain Prize for humor at the Kennedy Centre |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102603704.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=October 27, 2009 |access-date=September 22, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Washington Post" /> On May 3, 2018, Cosby was expelled as a member of the Actors Branch of the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]], along with [[Roman Polanski]] and [[Harvey Weinstein]], due to their breach of the academy's standards of conduct.<ref>{{cite web |title=Roman Polanski and Bill Cosby expelled from the film Academy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/may/03/roman-polanski-bill-cosby-expelled-film-academy |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=May 3, 2018 |access-date=March 19, 2023}}</ref>