Additional Awards

Exhibitorating Award

Exhibitorating Award

  • Adult Education Council of Denver
  • Air Force, the Exceptional Service Award
  • Alliance College of Cambridge Springs, PA, 1947
  • Alliance College, the Highest Award
  • American Airlines, Honorary Admiral of the Flagship Fleet
  • American Cancer Society, the Certificate of Merit
  • American Cancer Society, the Distinguished Service Award
  • American Legion, a citation, October 15, 1951
  • American Weekly Annual Motion Picture Poll declared The Greatest Show on Earth to be “The Most Enjoyable Picture of the Year”
  • Board of Supervisors of the City of Los Angeles, a resolution on 74th birthday.
  • Boxoffice Magazine, the Blue Ribbon Award for North West Mounted Police
  • Boxoffice Magazine, the Blue Ribbon Award for The Story of Dr. Wassell
  • Boxoffice Magazine, the Barometer Award for greatest picture of Season 1949-50, Samson and Delilah.
  • Boxoffice Magazine, the Blue Ribbon Award for The Greatest Show on Earth.
  • Boy Scouts of America, 1955
  • Breakfast Club, a Silver Cup Award to Mr. DeMille for “his great gift to mankind, The King of Kings”
  • Broadcast Pioneers, a Special Citation
  • Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, elected Mr. DeMille a Business Member on April 30, 1956
  • Christian Herald Reader’s Award for the 1957 Picture of the Year, The Ten Commandments.
  • Christophers, 1957
  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Scroll of Honor, November 18, 1949
  • City Council of City of Beverly Hills, a resolution on the 76th birthday of Mr. DeMille
  • City Council of City of Los Angeles, a resolution on the 75th birthday of Mr. DeMille
  • City Council of the City of Los Angeles, a resolution commending Mr. DeMille for having re-stated to the world man’s basic code of conduct towards his fellow man and towards his God in The Ten Commandments
  • City Council of City of Los Angeles, a resolution on the 77th birthday of Mr. DeMille
  • City Council of City of Los Angeles, a resolution expressing sympathy to Mr. DeMille’s family on January 21, 1959.

  • Civil Air Patrol, Auxiliary U.S. Air Force, 1955
  • Civil Air Patrol, Honorary Command Pilot, October 13, 1955
  • Civil Air Patrol, Honorary Life Member, November 5, 1955
  • Cleveland Film Critics Circle, The Greatest Show on Earth voted Best Picture of the Year 1952
  • Consolidated Freightways, an award for The Greatest Show on Earth,
  • Culver City Chamber of Commerce, an appreciation for The King of Kings, June 15, 1927
  • Dale Carnegie Club International, the International Human Relations Award, 1956
  • Daughters of the American Colonists, the California State Society Award of Merit
  • Fame Magazine, an award in recognition of a career of spectacular success in motion picture production, crowned with a historic landmark of the screen, The Ten Commandments
  • Film Daily, the Scroll of Honor
  • Florida, State of, appointed Lieutenant Colonel and aide on personal staff of Governor of Florida, the Honorable Fuller Warden, February 4, 1949
  • Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge, the Certificate of Merit for 1949 address “While Rome Burns”
  • Freedom Foundation, the award “Best Public Address of 1957”
  • Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, 1942
  • Look Magazine, the Film Achievement Award
  • Mental Health National Association citation for “outstanding service in the fight against mental illness, through assistance in the Mental Health Campaign of 1958
  • George Foster Peabody Award to Lux Radio Theatre, 1943
  • Phi Beta Award “Excellence in Speech” 1942
  • Religious Heritage of America’s Washington Pilgrimage, a non-resident membership in the Wings Club
  • Screen Producers Guild, the “Wreath of Honor” for C.B. DeMille’s historic contribution to the American motion picture, January 22, 1956
  • Seventeen Magazine, the award to The Greatest Show on Earth for Picture of the Month, March 1952.
  • Seventeen Magazine, an award to the Greatest Showman on Earth, Mr. DeMille, for The Greatest Show on Earth
  • Sheila Graham Show, a plaque for Mr. DeMille on his 74th birthday
  • United Cerebral Palsy, the Distinguished Service Award for outstanding public service for and on behalf of America’s cerebral palsied children and adults
  • War Agencies of the Government of the United States, 1945