Steve Martin - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

  • 1969 Emmy Award – The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (with other writers)
  • 1978 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album – Let's Get Small
  • 1979 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album – A Wild and Crazy Guy.
  • 1989 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from California State University Long Beach
  • 2001 Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance with Earl Scruggs (and others) – banjo performance of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown".
  • 2005 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
  • 2005 Disney Legend award
  • 2007 30th Annual Kennedy Center Honors
  • 2009 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album for his album The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo.
  • 2011 International Bluegrass Music Association's Entertainer of the Year.

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