Stars who won posthumously: Catherine O’Hara, Chadwick Boseman

All the celebrities I like like it Catherine O’Hara, Chadwick Boseman and Heath Ledger Gone perhaps, but they will never be forgotten.

These three actors and many more have received posthumous awards, keeping their legacies alive.

Boseman won a Critics’ Choice Award and a Golden Globe the year after his death in 2020. Ledger, who died a year earlier from an accidental overdose, won his only Oscar in 2009.

Meanwhile, O’Hara won 2026 Screen Actors Guild Awards Actor Awardjust one month after her death in late January.

“It is a very sad honor that I am asked to accept this award on behalf of (Catherine) O’Hara,” Seth Rogenwho worked with her studio” said at the March 2026 awards ceremony. “I know she would be honored to receive this award from other performers, and I know she has the utmost respect for them. She is a huge fan of all of you. “

Scroll down to see which stars received posthumous awards:

James Dean

Died in 1955 at the age of 24. James Dean Won the Special Golden Globe Award east of eden 1956. In 1957, he won the Golden Globe’s Henrietta Award for World’s Favorite Male Film, and in 1960 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. this rebellion without a cause star dies after fatal car accident.

audrey hepburn

this Breakfast at Tiffany’s actor audrey hepburn After her death from cancer in January 1993 at the age of 63, she received several awards. A 1994 Grammy Award for Best Children’s Spoken Word Album and a 1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement—information programming helped her become First posthumous EGOT winner.

ray charles

ray charles Before his death in 2004 at the age of 73, he had won 12 Grammy Awards. A year after his death, he won five more Grammy Awards, bringing his total to 17.

Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger Nominated for an Academy Award for playing the Joker in “Joker” dark knight. his Family accepts Best Supporting Actor statue on his behalf He died of an accidental drug overdose in January 2008 at the age of 28, and later died in February 2009.

“Bittersweet is probably the best way I can describe that night. It was only a year and a month before he died,” said his father, Kim Ledger,Tell hollywood reporter February 2016. “We didn’t realize the tragedy of losing him, but at the same time, he was getting so much credit for what he knew was his best work.”

The family promised to give the award to Heath’s now 13-year-old daughter Matilda, whom he shares with his ex-girlfriend Michelle Williams.

amy winehouse

female singer amy winehouse Died of alcohol poisoning in July 2011 at the age of 27. She has won four Grammy Awards, winning a posthumous award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance in February 2012. She recorded “Body and Soul” with Tony Bennett Beats the category.

Joan Rivers

comedian and style critic Joan Rivers Died in 2014 She stopped breathing and was put into a medically induced coma while undergoing outpatient surgery on her vocal cords. She is 81 years old. In 2015, she won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album.

david bowie

david bowie In 2017, his album won four Grammy Awards black star, after his death The musician died in New York in 2016 at the age of 69 after battling liver cancer.

Carrie Fisher

Star Wars icon Carrie Fisher won her first grammy award Won the Best Spoken Word Album Award in January 2018. Her recorded 2016 memoir, princess diaristShe died in December 2016 at the age of 60, more than a year after suffering from sleep apnea and other unknown factors.

Chadwick Boseman

Chadwick Boseman passed away in 2020 after a private battle with colon cancer. He was 43 years old. black panther Star wins Best Actor at Golden Globe Awards 2021 Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. He also won the Critics Choice Award for Best Actor that year. In 2022, Boseman won the Award for Outstanding Character Voice Performance What if… T’Challa became Star-Lord?. he was awarded a star Hollywood Walk of Fame 2025.

Christine McVeigh

fleetwood mac pianist Christine McVeigh Died in November 2022 at the age of 79. She won the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocal at the 2023 ceremony for her arrangement of Vince Mendoza’s “Songbird (Orchestral Version”).

her ex band members Mick Fleetwood A memorial service was then organized during the live broadcast on CBS. fleetwood, Sheryl Crow and Bonnie Raitt “Songbird” will be sung live.

“I think we’re all here to represent Christine and what she means to Fleetwood Mac as a person and of course what she means to me and the band members personally,” Fleetwood told and! information On the red carpet in February 2023. “This is in honor of a talented, lovely, unsuspecting woman, Christine McVie. … We’re really excited to make a fuss about her.”

Catherine O’Hara

Catherine O’Hara Died in January 2026 71 years old. The cause of death was later confirmed to be a pulmonary embolism and the underlying cause was rectal cancer. She won the 2026 Best Actress in a Comedy Series for her Screen Actors Guild Award studio That March, her comedy legacy lived on.