Awards Database By Year
A comprehensive database of winners and nominees from film, music, television and theater. 
Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award – Inducted
2012 Songwriter’s Hall Of Fame
Lifetime Achievement of Work
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album — Nominee
2007 Grammy Awards
Cool Yule – Bette Midler
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album — Nominee
2006 Grammy Awards
Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook – Bette Midler
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album — Nominee
2003 Grammy Awards
Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook – Bette Midler
Best Actress – Television Comedy or Musical Series — Nominee
2000 Golden Globe Awards
Bette Midler – Bette
Worst Actress — Nominee
2000 Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Awards
Bette Midler – Isn’t She Great
Worst Actress — Nominee
2000 Hastings Bad Cinema Society Stinker Awards
Bette Midler – Isn’t She Great
Favorite Female Performer – New Television Series — Winner
2000 People’s Choice Awards
Bette Midler – Bette
Actress of the Year – Comedy Series — Nominee
2000 TV Guide Awards
Bette Midler – Bette
Actress of the Year – Comedy Series — Nominee
2000 TV Guide Awards
Bette Midler – Betteoriginal long listJennifer Aniston – Friends
Actress of the Year – New Series — Nominee
2000 TV Guide Awards
Bette Midler – Bette
Actress of the Year – New Series — Winner
2000 TV Guide Awards
Bette Midler -Betteoriginal long listJessica Alba – Dark Angel
Outstanding Guest Actress – Comedy Series — Nominee
1998 Emmy Awards
Bette Midler – Never Can Say Goodbye – Murphy Brown
Funniest Female Performer – Television Special — Winner
1997 American Comedy Awards
Bette Midler – Bette Midler in Concert: Diva Las Vegas
Honorees — Winner
1997 Crystal Awards
Bette Midler
Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Music Program — Winner
1997 Emmy Awards
Bette Midler – Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
Outstanding Art Direction – Variety or Music Program — Nominee
1997 Emmy Awards
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
Outstanding Costume Design – Variety or Music Program — Nominee
1997 Emmy Awards
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas – Bob DeMora
Outstanding Hairstyling – Miniseries or Special — Nominee
1997 Emmy Awards
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
Outstanding Lighting Direction – Drama Series, Variety Series, Miniseries or Special — Winner
1997 Emmy Awards
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
Outstanding Multi-Camera Editing – Miniseries or Special — Nominee
1997 Emmy Awards
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
Outstanding Sound Mixing – Variety or Music Series or Special — Nominee
1997 Emmy Awards
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special — Nominee
1997 Emmy Awards
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
Worst Actress — Nominee
1997 Hastings Bad Cinema Society Stinker Awards
Bette Midler – That Old Feeling
Worst On-Screen Couple — Nominee
1997 Hastings Bad Cinema Society Stinker Awards
Bette Midler, Dennis Farina – That Old Feeling
Female Star of the Year — Nominee
1996 Golden Apple Awards
Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler
Best Actress – Comedy or Musical — Nominee
1996 Satellite Awards
Bette Midler – The First Wives Club
Funniest Supporting Actress – Motion Picture — Winner
1995 American Comedy Awards
Bette Midler – Get Shorty
Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or Special — Nominee
1994 Emmy Awards
Bette Midler – Gypsy
Best Actress — Nominee
1993 Saturn Awards
Bette Midler – Hocus Pocus
Funniest Female Performer – Television Special — Winner
1992 American Comedy Awards
Bette Midler – 2nd To Last Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Best Actress — Nominee
1991 Academy Awards
Bette Midler – For the Boys
Worst Actress — Nominee
1990 Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Awards
Bette Midler – Stella
Pop Female Vocalist — Nominee
1990 Grammy Awards
Bette Midler – From a Distance
Worst Actress — Winner
1990 Harvard Lampoon Movie Worsts
Bette Midler – Beaches
Pop Female Vocalist — Nominee
1989 Grammy Awards
Bette Midler – Wind Beneath My Wings
Funniest Leading Actress – Motion Picture — Winner
1988 American Comedy Awards
Bette Midler – Big Business
Favorite Comedy Movie Actress — Winner
1988 People’s Choice Awards
Bette Midler
Honoree — Winner
1987 American Cinematheque Award
Bette Midler
Funniest Leading Actress – Motion Picture — Winner
1987 American Comedy Awards
Bette Midler – Outrageous Fortune
Funniest Female Performer of the Year — Winner
1986 American Comedy Awards
Bette Midler
Funniest Leading Actress – Motion Picture — Winner
1986 American Comedy Awards
Bette Midler – Ruthless People
Lifetime Achievement Award — Winner
1986 American Comedy Awards
Bette Midler
Jack Oakie Comedy Award — Winner
1985 Crystal Awards
Bette Midler
Best Choreography — Nominee
1984 MTV Video Music Awards
Bette Midler – Beast of Burden
Best Female Video — Nominee
1984 MTV Video Music Awards
Bette Midler – Beast of Burden
Best Stage Performance in a Video — Nominee
1984 MTV Video Music Awards
Bette Midler – Beast of Burden
Best Actress — Nominee
1980 British Film Awards
Bette Midler – The Rose
Pop Female Vocalist — Winner
1980 Grammy Awards
Bette Midler – The Rose
Best Actress — Nominee
1979 Academy Awards
Bette Midler – The Rose
Best Actress — Nominee
1979 New York Film Critics Awards
Bette Midler – The Rose
Outstanding Special – Comedy-Variety or Music — Winner
1978 Emmy Awards
Bette Midler – Ol’ Red Hair is Back
Outstanding Tape Sound Mixing — Winner
1978 Emmy Awards
Bette Midler – Ol’ Red Hair is Back
Outstanding Writing – Comedy-Variety or Music Special — Nominee
1978 Emmy Awards
Bette Midler – Ol’ Red Hair is Back – Buz Kohan, Rod Warren, Pat McCormick, Tom Eyen, Jerry Blatt, Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch
Woman of the Year — Winner
1976 Hasty Pudding Awards
Bette Midler
Special Tony Award — Winner
1974 Tony Awards
Bette Midler – Bette At The Palace
New Artist — Winner
1973 Grammy Awards
Bette Midler
Pop Female Vocalist — Nominee
1973 Grammy Awards
Bette Midler – Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Album Of The Year — Nominee
1973 Grammy Awards
Bette Midler – The Divine Miss M
Entertainer Of The Year — Winner
1972 Ruby Award – After Dark Magazine
Bette Midler