Shari Lewis - Awards/Honors

Awards/Honors

Lewis was the recipient of numerous awards during her lifetime, including:

• 12 Emmy Awards
• Peabody Award (1960)
• Monte Carlo Prize for the World's Best Television Variety Show (1963)
• John F. Kennedy Center Award for Excellence and Creativity (1983)
• 7 Parents' Choice Awards
• Action for Children's Television Award
• 1995 American Academy of Children's Entertainment award for Entertainer of the Year
• Dor L'Dor award of the B'nai B'rith (1996)
• 3 Houston Film Festival awards
• Silver Circle Award of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (1996)
• Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence (1996)
• 2 Charleston Film Festival Gold Awards (1995)
• Houston World Festival silver and bronze awards (1995)
• New York Film and Video Festival Silver Award (1995)
• In 1998, she was posthumously awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television.

In addition to writing over 60 books for children, she and her second husband wrote an episode for the third and final season of the original Star Trek series entitled "The Lights of Zetar". This was produced in 1968. Lewis had hoped to play the part of "Lt. Mira Romaine," but the role was given to actress Jan Shutan.