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List of awards and nominations received by Oprah Winfrey

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List of awards and nominations received by Oprah Winfrey
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This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Oprah Winfrey.

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Oprah Winfrey is a talk show host, media mogul, producer, actor and commentator. She has received various accolades including 20 Daytime Emmy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Awards, 12 NAACP Image Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Tony Award.

Winfrey started her career as a talk show host where she gained immense stardom and popularity hosting the daytime talk series The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 to 2011. She received nine Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series and seven Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host. Additionally she won seven NAACP Image Awards and four People's Choice Awards. She also hosted the self-help talk series Super Soul Sunday from 2011 to 2021 where she won three Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Special Class Series.

As an actress, she portrayed Sofia in the Steven Spielberg directed epic period film The Color Purple (1985) for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture. She produced the Ava DuVernay directed Civil Rights historical drama Selma (2014) for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. On Broadway, she produced the musical The Color Purple in 2005 and it's revival in 2016 earning the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.

Over her career she has received several honorary awards including a Special Peabody Award in 1995, the Daytime Television Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Bob Hope Humanitarian Award in 2002, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2018. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored her with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2011. President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.

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