Editing Herbie Hancock (section)

=== Other awards ===
* ''Keyboard'' Readers' Poll: Best Jazz Pianist (1987, 1988); Keyboardist (1983, 1987)
* ''Playboy'' Music Poll: Best Jazz Group (1985), Best Jazz Album ''Rockit'' (1985), Best Jazz Keyboards (1985, 1986), Best R&B Instrumentalist (1987), Best Jazz Instrumentalist (1988)
* [[MTV Awards]] (5), Best Concept Video, "[[Rockit (song)|Rockit]]", 1983–'84
* Gold Note Jazz Awards – New York Chapter of the National Black MBA Association, 1985
* French Award Officer of the Order of Arts & Letters, 1985
* BMI Film Music Award, ''Round Midnight'', 1986
* Honorary Doctorate of Music from [[Berklee College of Music]], 1986 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/herbie-hancock-gary-burton-to-help-berklee-celebrate-anniversary-january-28|title=Herbie Hancock, Gary Burton to Help Berklee Celebrate Anniversary January 28 – Playbill|website=Playbill|first=Ben|last=Mattison|date=January 2, 2006|access-date=December 7, 2017|archive-date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116192103/https://www.playbill.com/article/herbie-hancock-gary-burton-to-help-berklee-celebrate-anniversary-january-28|url-status=live}}</ref>
* U.S. Radio Award, Best Original Music Scoring – ''Thom McAnn Shoes'', 1986
* [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]], Best Score – ''{{'}}Round Midnight'', 1986
* BMI Film Music Award, ''Colors'', 1989
* [[Miles Davis]] Award, [[Montreal International Jazz Festival]], 1997
* [[Soul Train Music Award for Best Jazz Album]] – ''The New Standard'', 1997
* VH1's 100 Greatest Videos, "Rockit" is 10th Greatest Video, 2001
* [[NEA Jazz Masters]] Award, 2004
* ''Downbeat'' Readers' Poll Hall of Fame, 2005<ref>"Hancock named Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year", ''[[Harvard University Gazette]]'', February 27, 2008 {{Cite web |url=http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/02.28/99-culturalrhythms.html |title=Hancock named Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year — the Harvard University Gazette |access-date=February 28, 2008 |archive-date=April 16, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416130021/http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/02.28/99-culturalrhythms.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>
* Kennedy Center Honors, 2013
* [[Benjamin Franklin Medal (Royal Society of Arts)]], 2018