Awards: He has received two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Grammy Award. He also is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. Jones was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame, he was given the Golden Plate Award by the American Academy of Achievement He was the Marian Anderson Award Recipient. Jones won the Voice Icon Award sponsored by the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences at the Museum of the Moving Image.