Editing Harry Belafonte (section)

==Accolades and legacy==
Belafonte is an [[List of EGOT winners|EGOT]] honoree, having received three [[Grammy Awards]], an [[Emmy Award]],<ref name="emmys.com"/> a [[Tony Award]],<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Harry Belafonte Tony Awards Wins and Nominations |url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/?q=harry%20belafonte |access-date=2024-02-08 |website=Tonyawards.com}}</ref> and, in 2014, the [[Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award]] at the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences']] [[Governors Awards#6th Annual Governors Awards|6th Annual Governors Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-10-28 |title=6th Annual Governors Awards {{!}} Oscars.org {{!}} Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |url=https://www.oscars.org/events/6th-annual-governors-awards |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=Oscars.org |language=en}}</ref>

Belafonte won an Emmy in 1960 for his performance on [[Revlon Revue]]. He was nominated four other times.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/harry-belafonte|title=Harry Belafonte|website=Television Academy}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|+Theater Awards
!Year
!Award
!Theatrical Production
!Category
|-
|[[8th Tony Awards|1954]]
|[[Tony Awards|Tony Award]]<ref name=":3" />
|''[[John Murray Anderson's Almanac]]''
|[[Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical|Distinguished Supporting or Featured Musical Actor]]
|-
|1954
|[[Theatre World Award]]s<ref>{{Cite web |title=Theatre World Awards – Theatre World Awards |url=https://www.theatreworldawards.org/past-recipients.html |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=Theatreworldawards.org |archive-date=April 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220428153856/http://theatreworldawards.org/past-recipients.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|[[John Murray Anderson's Almanac]]
|Award Winner
|-
|1954
|[[Donaldson Awards|Donaldson Award]]<ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4h4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=donaldson+awards%2C+theatre+awards%2C+1953-1954&pg=PA2 |title=Billboard |date=1954-06-19 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |language=en}}</ref>
|''[[John Murray Anderson's Almanac]]''
|Best Actor Debut in a Musical
|}
He also received various honours including the [[Kennedy Center Honors]] in 1989, the [[National Medal of Arts]] in 1994 and was inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] in the Early Influence category in 2022.<ref name="auto3"/>

Belafonte celebrated his 93rd birthday on March 1, 2020, at Harlem's [[Apollo Theater]] in a tribute event that concluded "with a thunderous audience singalong" with rapper [[Doug E. Fresh]] to 1956's "Banana Boat Song". Soon after, the New York Public Library's [[Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture]] announced it had acquired Belafonte's vast personal archive of "photographs, recordings, films, letters, artwork, clipping albums," and other content.<ref name="Schomburg archive">{{cite news |last1=Schuessler |first1=Jennifer |title=A Great Day-O for Black Culture |issue=Arts pp C1, C3 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 14, 2020}}</ref>