List of accolades received by The Bodyguard (1992 film)


The Bodyguard is a 1992 American romantic thriller film directed by Mick Jackson. It starred Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Gary Kemp, Bill Cobbs and Ralph Waite. The film follows a former United States Secret Service agent turned bodyguard who is hired to protect a famous actress and singer from an unknown stalker.

Academy Awards

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Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1992 Best Original Song "I Have Nothing"
Music by David Foster
Lyrics by Linda Thompson 		Nominated [1]
"Run to You"
Music by Jud Friedman
Lyrics by Allan Rich 		Nominated

All Def Movie Awards

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Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
2016 Most Helpful White Person Kevin Costner Nominated [2]

American Black Achievement Awards

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Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1994 The Music Award Whitney Houston Won [3]
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American Music Awards

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Houston's eight wins tied her with Michael Jackson for the most AMAs ever won in a single year. At that time, she also tied Kenny Rogers on the all-time list with 19 total AMAs.[5] She won her fourth "Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist" award and tied with Olivia Newton-John for the most AMAs won in this category.

Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1994 American Music Award of Merit Whitney Houston Won [5]
Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist Nominated
Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist Won
Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist Won
Favorite Adult Contemporary Album The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album Won
Favorite Pop/Rock Album Won
Favorite Soul/R&B Album Won
Favorite Pop/Rock Song "I Will Always Love You" Won
Favorite Soul/R&B Song Won

ASCAP Pop Awards

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Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1994 The Most-Performed Song "I'm Every Woman"
Music and Lyrics by Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson 		Won [6]

Billboard Music Awards

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Houston is the co-holder of the record for the most Billboard Music Awards (11 awards) won in a single year since the award show has been held in 1990 - the awards with ★ marks were honored to her on the show and without ★ marks were not, but her extra #1-ranked-categories on Billboard year-end charts. She became the only artist to grab the top spots of Top Billboard 200 Album, Top R&B Album, Hot 100 Single and Hot R&B Single simultaneously in the history of the charts. She is the only artist to win Top R&B Album three times in the history of Billboard Year-End Charts to date, after Whitney Houston in 1986 and I'm Your Baby Tonight in 1991. In addition, Houston is the second artist behind Elton John and the only female artist to have two number-one Top Billboard 200 Album awards (formerly "Top Pop Album") on Billboard magazine year-end charts.

Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1993 ★Top Billboard 200 Album The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album Won [7]
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★Top Hot 100 Singles Artist Whitney Houston Won
★Top Hot 100 Single "I Will Always Love You" Won
★Top Hot R&B Singles Artist Whitney Houston Won
★Top R&B Album The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album Won
★Top Hot R&B Single "I Will Always Love You" Won
★Top Soundtrack The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album Won
★Special Award: Top Album Most Weeks at #1 (20 weeks) Won
★Special Award: Top Single Most Weeks at #1 (14 weeks) "I Will Always Love You" Won
★Top World Artist Whitney Houston Won
★Top World Single "I Will Always Love You" Won
Top Hot Adult Contemporary Artist Whitney Houston Nominated
Top Hot 100 Singles Artist – Female Won
Top Hot 100 Singles Sales #1 "I Will Always Love You" Won
Top Hot R&B Singles Sales #1 Won

BRAVO Magazine's Bravo Otto Awards

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The BRAVO Otto Awards were determined by the readers' poll on BRAVO, the largest teen magazine within the German-language sphere. The 1993's poll began from the issue #45 (November 4) in 1993 and the results were released in the issue No. 1 (January 6) in 1994.[9]

Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1993 Best Female Singer – Silver Otto Award Whitney Houston Won [9]

BMI Film & Television Awards

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Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1994 Film Music Award Alan Silvestri – The Bodyguard Won [10]
Most-performed Song from a Film "I Have Nothing"
Music by David Foster
Lyrics by Linda Thompson 		Won

Brit Awards

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Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1994 Soundtrack/Cast Recording The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album Won [11]

Golden Raspberry Awards

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Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1992 Worst Picture Lawrence Kasdan, Jim Wilson and Kevin Costner Nominated [12]
Worst Actor Kevin Costner Nominated
Worst Actress Whitney Houston Nominated
Worst Screenplay Lawrence Kasdan Nominated
Worst New Star Kevin Costner's crew cut Nominated
Whitney Houston Nominated
Worst Original Song "Queen of the Night"
Music and Lyrics by Whitney Houston, L.A. Reid, Babyface and Daryl Simmons 		Nominated

Grammy Awards

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Houston won her third "Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female" award, which is the second record behind Ella Fitzgerald and Barbra Streisand; each received the award five times.

Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1994 Album of the Year The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album – Whitney Houston[a] Won [13]
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Record of the Year "I Will Always Love You" – Whitney Houston[b] Won
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female "I Will Always Love You" – Whitney Houston Won
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female "I'm Every Woman" – Whitney Houston Nominated
Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television "I Have Nothing" – David Foster and Linda Thompson Nominated
"Run to You" – Jud Friedman and Allan Rich Nominated

Japan Academy Film Prize

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Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1992 Outstanding Foreign Language Film The Bodyguard Nominated [15]

Japan Gold Disc Awards

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Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1993 Album of the Year (International) The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album Won [16]
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Compilation Album of the Year (International) Won
Single of the Year (International) "I Will Always Love You" Won
1994 Special Award[c] The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album Won
"I Will Always Love You" Won

Juno Awards

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Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1994 Best Selling Album (Foreign or Domestic) The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album – Whitney Houston Won [18]

MTV Movie Awards

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Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1993 Best Movie The Bodyguard Nominated [19]
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Best Male Performance Kevin Costner Nominated
Most Desirable Male Nominated
Best Female Performance Whitney Houston Nominated
Best Breakthrough Performance Nominated
Best On-Screen Duo Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston Nominated
Best Song from a Movie "I Will Always Love You" – Whitney Houston Won

NAACP Image Awards

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Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1993 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture Whitney Houston Nominated [21]
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Entertainer of the Year Won
Outstanding Female Artist Won
Outstanding Album The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album Won
Outstanding Soundtrack Album (Film or Television) Won
Outstanding Music Video "I'm Every Woman" – Whitney Houston Won

The NARM Best Seller Awards

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Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1994 Best-selling Soundtrack The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album Won [24]

NABOB Communications Awards

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Houston was the recipient of an Entertainer of the Year award from the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (NABOB) in 1994.

Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1994 Entertainer of the Year Whitney Houston Won [25]

People's Choice Awards

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Houston won her fourth "Favorite Female Musical Performer" award. She didn't attend the show due to being nine months pregnant. Instead, she was given two awards at her home by her mother, Cissy Houston, and made an acceptance speech.

Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1993 Favorite Motion Picture Actor Kevin Costner Won [26]
Favorite Actor in a Dramatic Motion Picture Won
Favorite Actress in a Dramatic Motion Picture Whitney Houston Nominated
Favorite Female Musical Performer Won
Favorite New Music Video "I Will Always Love You" Won

Smash Hits Magazine's Smash Hits Poll Winners Party

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The Smash Hits Poll Winners Party was an awards ceremony which ran from 1988 to 2005. Each award winner was voted by readers of the Smash Hits magazine.

Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1993 Best Female Artist Whitney Houston Won

Soul Train Music Awards

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At the 8th Soul Train Music Awards, Houston received Sammy Davis Jr. Award for her outstanding achievements in the field of entertainment during 1993.

Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1993 Best R&B/Soul Single – Female Whitney Houston – "I Will Always Love You" Won [27]
1994 Whitney Houston – "I Have Nothing" Nominated [28]
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Best R&B/Soul Song of the Year Whitney Houston – "I Will Always Love You" Won
Sammy Davis Jr. Award for Entertainer of the Year Whitney Houston Won

World Music Awards

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Houston holds the record for the most World Music Awards (five) won in a single year (tied with Michael Jackson).

Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1994 World's Best Selling American Recording Artist of the Year Whitney Houston Won [30]
World's Best Selling Female Recording Artist of the Era Won
World's Best Selling Overall Recording Artist Won
World's Best Selling Pop Artist of the Year Won
World's Best Selling R&B Artist of the Year Won

Yoga Awards

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Year Category Nominee / work Result Ref.
1992 Worst Foreign Actor Kevin Costner Won

Notes

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  1. ^ Shared with Babyface, BeBe Winans, David Cole, David Foster, L.A. Reid, Narada Michael Walden, Robert Clivilles and Clive Davis.
  2. ^ Shared with David Foster.
  3. ^ This award is presented to the product which released before that year, sales over one million units or sales higher than product get award on same category. The Bodyguard Soundtrack earned the award for sales of over 2 million copies and "I Will Always Love You" for 600,000 copies sold in 1993 only in Japan.

References

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  2. ^ "The All Def Movie Awards were everything the Oscars won't be". Los Angeles Times. February 25, 2016.
  3. ^ "Complete List of ABAA Recipients and Honorees: 1993-1994". Ebony. May 1994. Retrieved June 30, 2010.
  4. ^ "Vanessa Williams Hosts 15th Anniversary of American Black Achievement Awards". Jet. April 25, 1994. Retrieved June 30, 2010.
  5. ^ a b "Whitney Houston, Eight American Music Awards Make Her Top Female Winner (p56-59)". Jet. February 28, 1994. Retrieved June 29, 2010.
  6. ^ Craig Rosen (May 21, 1994). "Songwriting Teams Are Among ASCAP's Top Of The Pops". Billboard. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
  7. ^ "Billboard magazine: The Year in Music 1993, Special Double Issue (YE1-YE60)". Billboard. December 25, 1993.
  8. ^ Chris Willman (December 10, 1993). "Pop Music Review: Houston Tops Off Record Night With Show's Highlight". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 29, 2010.
  9. ^ a b "BRAVO Otto 1993". BRAVO. Retrieved February 9, 2010.[permanent dead link‍]
  10. ^ Carrie Borzillo (May 28, 1994). "TV Composer Post Takes BMI Award". Billboard. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
  11. ^ "The BRITs 1994 Winners & Nominees". British Phonographic Industry. February 14, 1994. Archived from the original on June 30, 2012. Retrieved June 29, 2010.
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  15. ^ "日本アカデミー賞公式サイト". www.japan-academy-prize.jp. Archived from the original on 20 April 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  16. ^ "Japan Gold Disc Awards Winners List" (PDF) (in Japanese). The Recording Industry Association of Japan. Retrieved June 30, 2010.
  17. ^ Steve McClure (March 26, 1994). "Wands Takes Top Honors at Japan Gold Disc Awards". Billboard. Retrieved September 1, 2010.
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  21. ^ Denise Crittendon (February–March 1994). "Stars Shine At The NAACP Image Awards". The Crisis. Retrieved February 9, 2010.
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  23. ^ Marisa Leonardi (January 7, 1994). "Michael Jackson Shares Whitney Houston's Spotlight, Honors: Houston wins five NAACP Image Awards, but Jackson gets cheers in a show marked by controversy". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 29, 2010.
  24. ^ "Jackson, Pearl Jam Honored As Best Sellers". Billboard. April 9, 1994. Retrieved July 3, 2010.
  25. ^ "NABOB makes the night its own". The Washington Times. March 28, 1994. Retrieved June 29, 2010.
  26. ^ "People's Choice Awards, Past Winners 1993". Peopleschoice.com. Retrieved February 9, 2010.
  27. ^ "The 7th Soul Train Music Awards Winners". Don Cornelius Productions, Inc. March 9, 1993. Retrieved February 9, 2010.
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  30. ^ Mark Dezzani (May 21, 1994). World Music Awards Gaining Stature. Billboard. Retrieved February 9, 2010.
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