List of awards and nominations received by RuPaul's Drag Race

RuPaul's Drag Race is an American reality series wherein RuPaul and a panel of judges set contestants drag-related challenges. The program has received several awards and nominations including twenty-seven Primetime Emmy Awards, three Producers Guild of America Awards, six MTV Movie & TV Awards and two GLAAD Media Awards, among others.

The show was first aired in 2009 on Logo TV, the following year it won Outstanding Reality Program at the 21st GLAAD Media Awards while in 2011 it received its first Critics' Choice Television Award nomination for Best Reality Series – Competition. The program continued to be recognized at the Critics' Choice Television Awards, with RuPaul receiving nominations for Best Reality Show Host in 2012, 2014 and 2018, winning the latter.

In 2014, the show won the TCA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Reality Programming while in 2015 it received its first Primetime Emmy Award nomination with Mathu Andersen being nominated for Outstanding Makeup for a Multi-Camera Series or Special (Non-Prosthetic) for his work in the seventh season episode "ShakesQueer". The next year, RuPaul won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program, the first of eight consecutive wins in the category.

In 2017 the program moved to VH1 which brought more exposure to the program and made it a frecuent nominee at the Primetime Emmy Awards receiving several awards and nominations for each season ever since. In 2018, the program won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Competition Program, an award it has won four consecutive times. The program has also received nominations from several guilds such as the Art Directors Guild, the Costume Designers Guild and the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild.

Some segments of the program have also been recognized. The Untucked series won Best Unstructured Series at the 4th Critics' Choice Real TV Awards and Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program at the 73rd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. The Whatcha Packin' series, hosted by Michelle Visage was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series in 2022.

Critics' Choice Television Awards
The Critics' Choice Television Awards are presented annually since 2011 by the Broadcast Television Journalists Association. The awards were launched "to enhance access for broadcast journalists covering the television industry".

Critics' Choice Real TV Awards
The Critics' Choice Real TV Awards, presented by the Broadcast Television Journalists Association and NPACT, which recognizes excellence in nonfiction, unscripted and reality programming across broadcast, cable and streaming platforms.

Dorian Awards
The Dorian Awards are presented by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and go to film and television both mainstream and LGBTQ-centric.


 * Note: From 2009, the group honored film and TV together, but in 2020 began to award movies and programs at separate times of the year. This explains the overlap of award categories that year.

Primetime Emmy Awards
The Primetime Emmy Awards are given by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, an organisation founded in 1946, for television shows broadcast or available for download and streaming in America. The main award ceremony is the Primetime Emmy Award, whilst Creative Arts Emmy Awards are given in technical, creative, and craft categories, and International Emmy Awards are presented to shows airing outside of the US.