Nicholas Brothers - Awards

Awards

• Harold has received the Dea Award from the Dance Educators of America
• Harold received the Bay Area Critics Circle Award (Best Principal Performance, Stompin' at the Savoy)
• Harold received the Harbor Performing Arts Center Lifetime Achievement Award
• honorary doctorate from Harvard University for both brothers
• Black Film makers Hall of Fame (1978)
• A retrospective of their work in films on the Academy Awards television special (1981)
• Ellie Award (1984), National Film Society for both brothers
• Apollo Theater's Hall of Fame (1986), First Class Inductees for both brothers
• Ebony Lifetime Achievement Award (1987) for both brothers
• Fayard received Broadway's 1989 Tony Award as Best Choreographer for "Black and Blue" along with his collaborators Cholly Atkins, Henry LeTang and Frankie Manning.
• Scripps American Dance Festival Award
• Kennedy Center Honors in 1991 for both brothers who were in attendance
• The National Black Media Coalition Lifetime Achievement Award (1992)
• Flo-Bert Award (1992)
• New York's Tap Dance Committee, Gypsy Award (1994)
• A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7083 Hollywood Blvd (1994)
• Professional Dancer's Society, Dance Magazine Award of (1995)
• Carnegie Hall sold out for a tribute to the brothers in 1998
• National Museum of Dance Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame Inductees (2001)
• The brothers' home movies were selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry in 2011.