Best Supporting Actress

(I Can Get It For You Wholesale)

Entertainer of the Year

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• Album of the Year (The Barbra Streisand Album)
• Best Vocal Performance - Female

• Outstanding Program Achievement in Entertainment (My Name is Barbra)
• Outstanding Individual Achievement by an Actor or Performer

Achievement in Television (My Name is Barbra)

Top Recording of 1966 — “People”

Star of the Year

In San Francisco, Streisand and Sidney Poitier received the Star of Year Awards. Julian S. Rifkin, president of NATO, said Miss Streisand was “uniquely qualified” for the award on the basis of her sensational motion picture debut in “Funny Girl.”

Streisand and Fred Astaire were named Stars of the Year on Dec. 15, 1968.

Best Actress (Funny Girl)

Streisand tied with Katharine Hepburn

• Best Actress
• Best Musical (Funny Girl)

Star of the Decade

• Favorite Movie Actress
• Favorite Female Singer

• Best Motion Picture — Musical/Comedy (A Star is Born)
• Best Motion Picture Actress — Musical/Comedy
• Best Original Song ("Evergreen")

• Top Female Pop Single Artist
• Top Easy Listening Artist
• Top Pop Single ("Evergreen")
• Top Soundtrack (A Star is Born)

• Favorite Motion Picture (A Star is Born)
• Favorite Motion Picture Actress

• Song of the Year ("Evergreen")
• Best Pop Vocal Performance - Female

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry in the U.S. and abroad through information, education, legislation, and advocacy.

• Time Magazine
• National Board of Review

Hollywood Foreign Press Association — Golden Globe Awards

• Best Motion Picture — Musical/Comedy (Yentl)
• Best Director — Motion Picture

Streisand and Stevie Wonder at the ASCAP awards

Presented to Streisand by Stephen Sondheim

Streisand with Anita Hill at the ACLU ceremony

“These visionaries and pioneers - whose ideas and talents have influenced the world - have all participated in the annual International Achievement Summit and addressed the student delegates.”

You can download Barbra's speech for free over at iTunes.

• Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special, Barbra Streisand: The Concert
• Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, Barbra Streisand: The Concert

For Barbra Streisand: The Concert

In November 1997, a nationwide cross section of 1,010 people were asked to name their favorite singer or musical group. In April 1998, the new Harris poll announced Streisand as #1. The top 10 artists were:

1. Barbra Streisand
2. Garth Brooks
3/4. Whitney Houston, Frank Sinatra (tie)
5. Alan Jackson
6/7. The Beatles, Alabama (tie)
8. George Strait
9. Reba McEntire
10. Boyz II Men

Barbra Streisand was named the century's best female singer in a Reuters/Zogby poll of 916 Americans. Conducted between April 5 and 7, 1999, the poll placed no particular weight on a single age group. Participants were at least 18 years old. The top ten responses in the female category are as follows.

Barbra Streisand - 14 %
Celine Dion - 8.6 %
Whitney Houston - 7.5 %
Reba McEntire - 4.5 %
Dolly Parton - 3.5 %
Shania Twain - 3.2 %
Ella Fitzgerald - 2.8 %
Aretha Franklin - 2.5 %
Mariah Carey - 2.5 %
Loretta Lynn - 2.4 %

Frank Sinatra topped the male category with 21.2 percent, followed by Elvis Presley with 8.7 percent, Garth Brooks, Luciano Pavarotti, Elton John, Bing Crosby, George Strait, Nat King Cole, Perry Como, and Luthor Vandross.

President Clinton presented Barbra Streisand with the prestigious National Medal of Arts in Washington, D.C. on December 20, 2000 at D.A.R. Constitution Hall. First Lady and Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton offered introductory remarks and introduced her husband, who followed with a brief speech and then presented the individual medals to 12 recipients of the National Medal of Arts, all of whom he selected.

The trustees of the American Film Institute selected Barbra Streisand to receive AFI's 29th Life Achievement Award.

• Outstanding Special Class Special: Reel Women [Daytime Emmy Awards]
• Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program: Timeless - Live In Concert

Streisand did not appear on stage to accept the award; she, instead, performed “You'll Never Walk Alone” to close the show and talked to the press afterwards.

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To qualify for the Hall of Fame, a recording must be at least 25 years old and of lasting qualitative or historical significance.

Barbra Streisand, the Craig Zadan and Neil Meron producing team, and the Latino organization Bienestar were honored by HRC at their annual L.A. dinner March 6, 2004 at the Century City Plaza Hotel. Streisand received the Humanitarian Award "for her years of leadership, vision, and activism in the fight for civil liberties, including religion, race, gender equality and freedom of speech, as well as all aspects of gay rights."

To qualify for the Hall of Fame, a recording must be at least 25 years old and of lasting qualitative or historical significance.

French President President Nicolas Sarkozy presented Streisand with the medal of the Legion of Honor.

“I am deeply honored to be joining the playwrights, heads of state, artists and leaders who have accepted this honor before me. I leave with a sense of inspiration and responsibility as an artist to always reflect the truth and as a citizen to try and create a world of justice, compassion, equality and peace — one with a little more music and a little more joy.”

To qualify for the Hall of Fame, a recording must be at least 25 years old and of lasting qualitative or historical significance.

Presented in Washington, D.C. on December 6, 2008.

At the State Department banquet, Barbra summed up the whole experience: “It's just great to be honored by one's own country.”

Streisand's statement about being inducted: "The museum tells an important Jewish story, but it also underscores the fact that our country affords Americans, regardless of their religion, creed or ethnicity, the freedom to live, achieve and contribute in their own way to the culture and spirit of America."

"The California Hall of Fame is a great way to honor amazing Californians whose dedication, determination and courage have helped shape this state," said Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. "What they have accomplished reminds us all that we live in the greatest state, one of opportunity and prosperity. They make me proud to call California home, and proud that they are this year's inductees."

"California is known for its beauty, diversity and creative community," said Barbra Streisand. " It's respected for its leadership in scientific research, environmental awareness and regulation. But to me, for most of my adult life, California is simply home. Thank you to the State of California for honoring me as an artist and a citizen."