Awards and honors

• NARAS Grammy Award 1968: "Best Contemporary Female Solo Vocal Performance" for the single, "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?."
• NARAS Grammy Award 1970: "Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Female" for the album, "I'll Never Fall in Love Again."
• NARAS Grammy Award 1979: "Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female" for the single, "Déjà Vu."
• NARAS Grammy Award 1979: "Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female" for the single, "I'll Never Love This Way Again."
• NARAS Grammy Award 1986: "Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal" for the single, "That's What Friends Are For."
• NARAS Grammy Hall of Fame-Don't Make Me Over
• NARAS Grammy Hall of Fame-Walk on By.
• NARAS Grammy Hall of Fame-Alfie.
• NARAS Grammy Nominations for: Walk On By-1964; Alfie-1967; I Say A Little Prayer-1967; This Girl's In Love With You-1969; Then Came You-1974; That's What Friends Are For (Record of the Year)-1986; Friends (Album)-1986.
• Woman of the Year-1969 Harvard Hasty Pudding Society
• Cannes Film Festival Nominee-Slaves-1969
• Cash Box Magazine-#1 Female Vocalist-1964
• Cash Box Magazine-#1 R & B Female Vocalist; #2 Pop-1966
• Cash Box Magazine-#2 R & B;# 2 Pop-1967
• Cash Box Magazine-#2 R & B;# 2 Pop-1968
• Cash Box Magazine-#1 Female Vocalist (Albums and Singles)-1969
• Cash Box Magazine-#1 Female Vocalist (Albums and Singles)-1970
• Cash Box Magazine-#1 Female Vocalist (Albums and Singles)-1971
• NARM (National Association of Record Mercandisers) #1 Popular Vocalist-Female 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970,1971.
• Playboy Magazine Music Poll-Top Female Vocalist-1970
• The first People's Choice for Favorite Female Singer (1975)-Televised as a special on CBS as "The People's Choice." The CBS special became the basis for the "The People's Choice Awards" and was first broadcast on CBS in the fall of 1975 under that title.
• Mayors Award and Key to the City-San Jose, California-1968
• NAACP Image Awards Entertainer of the Year-1986
• American Music Awards-Special Recognition- "That's What Friends Are For"-1987
• Billboard Music Awards-# 1 Single of the Year-"That's What Friends Are For"-1987
• ACE Award Nominee for "Sisters in the Name of Love"-Dionne Warwick (HBO-1987)
• United States Ambassador of Health-Appointed by Ronald Reagan-1987
• ASCAP Lifetime Achievement Award-1998
• National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters Hall of Fame-Hitmaker Award-2001
• ASCAP Heroes Award-2002
• United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)-appointed 2002
• Women's World Award-Lifetime Achievement Award-2003
• Rhythm & Blues Foundation-Lifetime Achievement Award-2003
• American Society of Young Musicians-Luminary Award-1997
• National Music Foundation-Cultural Impact Award-1998
• NABFEME Shero Award (The National Association of Black Female Executives in Music & Entertainment)-2006
• The Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival-Lifetime Career Achievement Award-2006
• Miami Dade Life Time Achievement Award-2007 and Dionne Warwick Day-May 25
• Kleenex American Hero Award-1987
• Starlight Foundation's Humanitarian of the Year Award
• Bella Rackoff Women in Film Humanitarian Award
• Trumpet Awards-Living Legend Award-2007
• Lincoln Elementary School in East Orange, NJ, honored her by renaming it to the Dionne Warwick Institute of Economics and Entrepreneurship

Filmography

• Slaves (1969)
• The Day the Music Died (1977) (documentary)
• Rent-A-Cop (1988)
• Johnny Bravo (1999) (cameo: Karma Krisis)
• The Making and Meaning of We Are Family (2002) (documentary)

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