Awards & Winners

Lucille Ball

Date of Birth 06-August-1911
Place of Birth Jamestown
(Chautauqua County, New York)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Lucille Désirée Ball, Diane Belmont, The Queen of Comedy, Lucy, The First Lady of Television, Technicolor Tessie, Lucille Ball Morton, Queen of the B movies, Lucille Desiree Ball, Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Désirée Ball
Profession Comedian, Model, Actor, Television Producer, Singer
Quotes
  • “The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
Lucille Désirée Ball was an American comedienne, model, film and television actress and studio executive. She was star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life with Lucy, and was one of the most popular and influential stars in the United States during her lifetime. Ball had one of Hollywood's longest careers. In the 1930s and 1940s she started as an RKO girl, playing bit parts as a chorus girl or similar roles and becoming a television star during the 1950s. She continued making films in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1962, Ball became the first woman to run a major television studio, Desilu, which produced many successful and popular television series such as "Mission Impossible" and "Star Trek". Ball was nominated for an Emmy Award thirteen times, and won four times. In 1977, Ball was among the first recipients of the Women in Film Crystal Award. She was the recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1979, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986, and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1989. In 1929, Ball landed work as a model and later began her performing career on Broadway using the stage name "Diane Belmont". She assumed many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures. Ball was dubbed the "Queen of the Bs". In 1951, Ball was instrumental in the creation of the television series I Love Lucy. The show co-starred her then-husband, Desi Arnaz, as Ricky Ricardo, Vivian Vance as Ethel Mertz, and William Frawley as Fred Mertz. The Mertzes were the Ricardos' landlords and friends. The show ended in 1957 after 180 episodes. The cast remained intact for a series of one-hour specials from 1957 to 1960 as part of The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. Its original network title was The Ford Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the first season, and The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Presents The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the following seasons. Later reruns were titled the more familiar Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, which was a perennial summer favorite on CBS through 1967. The specials emphasized guest stars such as Ann Sothern, Rudy Vallee, Tallulah Bankhead, Fred MacMurray and June Haver, Betty Grable and Harry James, Fernando Lamas, Maurice Chevalier, Danny Thomas and his Make Room for Daddy co-stars, Red Skelton, Paul Douglas, Ida Lupino and Howard Duff, Milton Berle, Robert Cummings, and, in the final episode, "Lucy Meets the Moustache", Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams. Ball went on to star in two more successful television series: The Lucy Show, which ran on CBS from 1962 to 1968, and Here's Lucy from 1968 to 1974. Her last attempt at a television series was a 1986 show called Life with Lucy – which failed after eight episodes aired, although 13 were produced.

Awards by Lucille Ball

Check all the awards nominated and won by Lucille Ball.

1989


Presidential Medal of Freedom
TCA Career Achievement Award

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
TCA Career Achievement Award

1979


Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award

Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award

1975


Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Mame

1972


Nominations 1972 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy Here's Lucy

1971


Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy Here's Lucy

1970


Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy Here's Lucy

1969


Nominations 1969 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Yours, Mine and Ours

1968


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series
Honored for : The Lucy Show

Nominations 1968 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series The Lucy Show
Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star - Female The Lucy Show

1967


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series
Honored for : The Lucy Show

Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series The Lucy Show

1966


Nominations 1966 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series The Lucy Show
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series The Lucy Show
Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series

1963


Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Series The Lucy Show

1961


Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy The Facts of Life

1958


Nominations 1958 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance - Variety Or Music Program I Love Lucy
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Continuing Performance (Female) in a Series by a Comedienne, Singer, Hostess, Dancer, M.C., Announcer, Narrator, Panelist, or any Person who Essentially Plays Herself I Love Lucy

1957


Nominations 1957 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Continuing Performance - Comedienne In A Series I Love Lucy

1956


Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actress - Continuing Performance
Honored for : I Love Lucy

Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Comedienne
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actress - Continuing Performance I Love Lucy

1955


Nominations 1955 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actress Starring In A Regular Series I Love Lucy

1954


Nominations 1954 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series I Love Lucy
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actress Starring In A Regular Series I Love Lucy

1953


Primetime Emmy Award for Best Comedienne

Nominations 1953 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Comedienne
Primetime Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Personality

1952


Nominations 1952 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Comedian Or Comedienne