Editing Ethel Waters (section)

==Awards and honors==
* Her recording of "[[Stormy Weather (song)|Stormy Weather]]" (1933) was listed in the [[List of recordings preserved in the United States National Recording Registry|National Recording Registry]] by the [[National Recording Preservation Board]] of the [[Library of Congress]] in 2003.
* [[Gospel Music Hall of Fame]], 1983
* Christian Music Hall of Fame, 2007<ref>{{cite web|title=Christian Music Hall of Fame|url=http://hallmuseum.com/artist.htm|publisher=Christian Music Hall of Fame and Museum|date=January 20, 2008|access-date=February 6, 2008|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080205112320/http://hallmuseum.com/artist.htm|archive-date=February 5, 2008}}</ref>
* Waters was approved for a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] in 2004; however, the star was never funded or installed.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Star for Ethel Waters: Home |url=http://www.ethelwatersstar.com/ |website=www.ethelwatersstar.com |access-date=November 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925200611/http://ethelwatersstar.com/ |archive-date=September 25, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://beenhere.org/2017/10/31/ethel-waters/|title=Ethel Waters|date=October 31, 2017|publisher=National Black Justice Coalition|accessdate=August 16, 2021|archive-date=August 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816183703/https://beenhere.org/2017/10/31/ethel-waters/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* In 2015, a historical marker memorializing Waters was unveiled along [[Pennsylvania Route 291|Route 291]] in [[Chester, Pennsylvania]] to recognize her life and talents in the city of her birth.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Quinn|first1=Rose|title=Chester great Ethel Waters memorialized in marker on Route 291|url=http://www.delcotimes.com/article/DC/20150628/NEWS/150629662|website=Delcotimes.com|date=June 14, 2000|access-date=September 25, 2017|archive-date=September 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925230614/http://www.delcotimes.com/article/DC/20150628/NEWS/150629662|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Commemorative stamp, [[United States Postal Service|U.S. Post Office]], 1994<ref>{{cite web|author=Tucker, Richard|title=Ethel Waters: Commemorative Stamp|url=http://esperstamps.org/aa21.htm|publisher=Ebony Society of Philatelic Events and Reflections |date=July 3, 2003|access-date=February 6, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908063711/http://esperstamps.org/aa21.htm |archive-date=September 8, 2008 }}</ref>
* Nomination, Best Supporting Actress, Academy Awards, ''[[Pinky (film)|Pinky]]'' 1949<ref>{{cite news|title=Awards Database: Ethel Waters|url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/factsheets/awardsdb/env-awards-db-search,0,7169155.htmlstory?searchtype=all&query=Ethel+Waters&x=19&y=4|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=February 6, 2008|archive-date=April 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404060048/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/factsheets/awardsdb/env-awards-db-search,0,7169155.htmlstory?searchtype=all&query=Ethel+Waters&x=19&y=4|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Nomination, Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Series, [[Primetime Emmy Awards]], for ''[[Route 66 (TV series)|Route 66]]'' "Goodnight Sweet Blues", 1962
* Three recordings by Waters were inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame Award|Grammy Hall of Fame]], a special Grammy Award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old and have "qualitative or historical significance."

{| class=wikitable
|+ Ethel Waters: [[Grammy Hall of Fame Award]]s<ref name=fame>{{cite web|title=Grammy Hall of Fame |url=http://www.grammy.com/Recording_Academy/Awards/Hall_Of_Fame |publisher=The Recording Academy. |year=2007 |access-date=February 6, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224205742/http://www2.grammy.com/Recording_Academy/Awards/Hall_Of_Fame/ |archive-date=December 24, 2010 }}</ref>
|-
! Year
! Title
! Genre
! Label
! Year inducted
|- align=center
| 1929
| "[[Am I Blue?]]"
| Traditional Pop (Single)
| Columbia
| 2007
|- align=center
| 1933
| "[[Stormy Weather (song)|Stormy Weather]]"<br />(Keeps Rainin' All The Time)
| Jazz (Single)
| Brunswick
| 2003
|- align=center
| 1925
| "Dinah"
| Traditional Pop (Single)
| Columbia
| 1998
|}