Academy Fellowship

DGA Honorary Life Member Award

Jussi Awards

Best Foreign Filmmaker - Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940)

Best Music, Original Dramatic Score - Limelight (1952)

Honorary Award - For the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art forms of this century.

Venice Film Festival

Career Golden Lion

Best Foreign Language Film - The Great Dictator (1940)

Honorary Award

Blue Ribbon Awards

Best Foreign Language Film - Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists

Kinema Junpo Awards

Best Foreign Language Film - Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

Best American Film (Bedste amerikanske film) - Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

Best Writing, Original Screenplay - The Great Dictator (1940)

New York Film Circle Critics Award

Best Actor - The Great Dictator (Chaplin refused to accept)

Honorary Award - The Circus (1928) For versatility and genius in acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus.

Best Foreign Language Film - The Gold Rush (1925)

Best Artistic Film: A Woman of Paris (1923)