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Cyndi Lauper has been nominated for 14 Grammy Awards, 2 Emmy Awards, 2 American Music Awards, 7 American Video Awards,
18 MTV awards and won many awards over the years and not only for her music and video's but also for her TV roles and her charity work. Below is a list of nominations and the awards she has won.

Awards

Grammy Awards
Best New Artist - 1984
Best Album Package: Janet Perr with She's So Unusual - 1984

American Video Awards
Best Female Performance for Girls Just Want To Have Fun - 1983
Best Female Performance for Time After Time - 1984
Best Pop Video for Time After Time - 1984

Billboard Awards
Best New Artist - 1984
Best Female Performance for Time After Time - 1984

MTV Music Awards
Best New Artist Video for Girls Just Want To Have Fun - 1984
Best Female Video for Time After Time - 1984

NARM Awards
Best Selling Album by a New Artist for She's So Unusual - 1984
Best Selling Album by a Female Artist for She's So Unusual - 1984
Chairman’s Award for Sustained Creative Achievement - 2010

Pro Canada Awards
Most Performed Foreign Song for Time After Time - 1985

National Academy of Recording arts & Sciences
Vocalist on Record Of The Year for We Are The World - 1985

BMI Awards
Pop Award for Time After Time - 1984
Pop Award for She Bop - 1985
Pop Award for Change Of Heart - 1988
BMI Millionaire Award for 5 million spins on US radio for Time After Time - 2008
Pop Award for Time After Time - 2009

Performance Magazine Awards (Readers Poll)
Most Promising Female Vocalist - 1983
Pop Breakout of the Year - 1984

Ms Magazine
Woman of the Year - 1984

Women in Film Crystal Awards
New Directions Award - 1985

American Music Awards
Favorite Female Vocalist, Pop/Rock - 1985
Favorite Female Vocalist, Video - 1985

World Wrestling Federation Awards
Special Achievement Award - 1985

New York Music Awards™
Best Female Rock Vocalist - 1988
Best Female Blues Artist - 2010
Best Blues album - Memphis Blues - 2010

Photography Annual
For Excellence in Art Direction with Stacey Drummond for What's Going On - 1988

Art Directors' Club 67th Annual Exhibition
Merit Award for What's Going On - 1988

FM Tokyo Pops Best 10
Song of the Year - I Drove All Night - 1989

Emmy Awards
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for: "Mad About You" - 1995

PFLAG Awards
PFLAG NYC 2005 Celebrity Leadership Award - 2005

HRC Awards
National Equality Award - 2007

Black Tie Awards
Black Tie Media Award for longstanding support of the LGBT Community - 2009

Out 100 Awards
Alley Of The Year for her continuing advocacy for LGBT equality - 2009

GLSEN The Respect Awards
Inspiration Award - 2010

OUTMUSIC Awards
Person Of The Year Award - 2011

National Runaway Switchboard (NRS) Awards
Spirit Of Youth Award - 2011

Hero Of Hope Awards
Special Recognition Award - 2012

Nominations but did not win an award

Grammy Awards
1984:
Album: She's So Unusual
Winner: Can't Slow Down (Lionel Richie)

Record: Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Winner: What's Love Got To Do With It (Tina Turner)

Song: Time After Time
Winner: What's Love Got To Do With It (Tina Turner)

Pop Vocal Female: Cyndi with Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Winner: Tina Turner with What's Love Got To Do With It

1985:
Rock Vocal Female: Cyndi with What A Thrill
Winner: Tina Turner with One Of The Living

1986:
Pop Vocal Female: Cyndi with True Colors
Winner: Barbara Streisand with Broadway

Rock Vocal Female: Cyndi with 911
Winner: Tina Turner with Back Where You Started

1987:
Video Performance: Cyndi with Cyndi Lauper In Paris
Winner: Prince with Prince's Trust All Star...

1989:
Rock Vocal Female: Cyndi with I Drove All Night

Winner: Bonnie Raitt with Nick Of Time

1998:
Best Dance Recording: Cyndi with Disco Inferno
Winner: Madonna with Ray Of Light

2005:
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): Unchained Melody
Winner: Over The Rainbow

2009
Best Electronic/Dance Album: Cyndi with Bring Ya To The Brink
Winner: Daft Punk with Alive 2007

2011
Best Traditional Blues Album: Cyndi with Memphis Blues
Winner: Pinetop Perkins & Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith with Joined At The Hip

MTV Music Awards
1984:
Best Video Of The Year: Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Winner: You Might Think (The Cars) directed by Jeff Stein

Best Direction in a Video: Edd Griles for Time After Time
Winner: Tim Newman for Legs (ZZ Top)

Best Overall Performance in a Video: Cyndi with Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Winner: Michael Jackson in Thriller

Best Concept Video: Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Winner: Rock It (Herbie Hancock)

Best New Artist in a Video: Time After Time
Winner: Eurythmics for Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

Best New Artist in a Video: Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Winner: Eurythmics for Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

1985:
Best Female Video: Money Changes Everything
Winner: What's Love Got To Do With It (Tina Turner)

Best Female Video: She Bop
Winner: What's Love Got To Do With It (Tina Turner)

Best Stage Performance in a Video: Money Changes Everything
Winner: Bruce Springsteen for Dancing In The Dark

Best Video of the Year: We Are The World
Winner: The Boys of Summer (Don Henley), directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino

Best Group Video: USA For Africa for We Are The World

Winner: USA For Africa

Best Overall Performance in a Video: USA For Africa for We Are The World
Winner: Phillip Bailey and Phil Collins for Easy Lover

1987:
Best Female Video: True Colors
Winner: Papa Don't Preach (Madonna)

Best Cinematography in a Video: What's Going On
Winner: C'est La Vie (Robbie Nevil)

Emmy Awards:
1994:
Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series: Cyndi Lauper as Marianne Lugasso, her first appearance in the Mad About You Sitcom
Winner: Eileen Heckart as Rose Stein in Love & War

Fennecus Awards:
1988:
Song Performance - In Studio: Cyndi with Hole In My Heart (All The Way To China)
Winner: "Why Don't You Do Right?" From Who Framed Roger Rabbit

2000:
Original Song: Cyndi with I Want A Mom That Will Last Forever
Winner: "Things Have Changed" From Wonder Boys; Music and Lyric by Bob Dylan

Song Performance - In Studio: Cyndi with I Want A Mom That Will Last Forever
Winner: "I Believe" From Billy Elliot. Performed by Stephen Gately

Apex Awards:
1996:
Original Song - Comedy: Cyndi with Unhook The Stars
Winner: "That Thing You Do!" From That Thing You Do! Music & Lyric by Adam Schlesinger

2000:
Original Song - Comedy: Cyndi with I Want A Mom That Will Last Forever
Winner: "Things Have Changed" From Wonder Boys. Music and Lyric by Bob Dylan

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