| 1962 |
EDISON Award for best jazz album of the year in Europe |
| 1972 |
Officer of the Order of Canada |
| 1974 |
GRAMMY for Jazz Instrumental Individual or Group - The Trio |
| 1975 |
Diplome d'Honneur from Canadian Conference of the Arts |
| 1976 |
Olympic Key to Montreal |
| 1977 |
Queen's Medal |
| 1978 |
Inducted into Canadian Music Hall of Fame |
| 1978 |
GENIE Award for the best film score - The Silent Partner |
| 1978 |
GRAMMY Jazz Instrumental Soloist - Montreux '77 - Oscar
Peterson Jam |
| 1978 |
GRAMMY Jazz Instrumental Soloist - The Giants |
| 1979 |
GRAMMY for Jazz Instrumental Soloist - Jousts |
| 1980 |
Honoured by the Canadian Black Music Awards |
| 1982 |
Honorary Lifetime Member, Musicians' Guild, Montreal |
| 1982 |
Canadian Band Festival Award |
| 1982 |
Oscar Peterson Scholarship founded by
Berklee School of Music |
| 1983 |
Honour Award from the Kidney Foundation of Canada |
| 1985 |
Companion of the Order of Canada |
| 1987 |
JUNO Award for best jazz album If You Could See Me Now |
| 1989 |
Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters, France |
| 1990 |
Prix Oscar-Peterson established by Montreal International Jazz Festival |
| 1990 |
GRAMMY for Jazz Instrumental Soloist - Trio Live at the
Blue Note |
| 1990 |
GRAMMY for Jazz Instrumental Individual
or Group - Trio Live at the Blue Note |
| 1991 |
Knight of the Order of Quebec |
| 1991 |
Lifetime Achievement Award, Toronto Arts Awards |
| 1991 |
GRAMMY for Jazz Instrumental Individual or Group - Saturday Night at the Blue Note |
| 1992 |
Member of the Order of Ontario |
| 1992 |
Governor-General's Performing Arts Award |
| 1992 |
Maclean's Honour Roll |
| 1993 |
Glenn Gould Prize from the Glenn Gould Foundation |
| 1993 |
GEMINI Award for best original
score for film In the Key of Oscar |
| 1997 |
Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (US parent body of Grammy Awards) |
| 1999 |
Concert hall at Concordia University named after Oscar Peterson |
| 1999 |
Received the Praemium Imperiale Award, Nobel equivalent for
the Arts. |
| 2000 |
Winner of the 2000 International Music Council/UNESCO Music Prize |
| 2000 |
Oscar Peterson Jazz Scholarship founded in celebration of Mr. Peterson's 75th birthday, by Verve Music Group Canada, Telarc Records and Concordia University |
This is an updated version of a list compiled by Lois K. Moody in
December 1997.
