| J. Cole | |
| Wins: | 11 |
| Nominations: | 120 |
This is a list of awards and nominations received by American rapper and record producer J. Cole.
!|-|rowspan=2|2012|Himself|New Artist of the Year||rowspan=2|[1] |-||rowspan=2|Favorite Rap/Hip Hop Album||-|2015|2014 Forest Hills Drive||[2] |}
!|-|2011|rowspan=2|Himself|Best New Artist ||[3] |-|rowspan=2|2012|Best Male Hip Hop Artist ||rowspan=2|[4] |-|"Party (Remix)" (with Beyoncé)|Best Collaboration||-|2014|rowspan=3|Himself|rowspan=3|Best Male Hip Hop Artist ||[5] |-|2016||[6] |-|rowspan=2|2017||rowspan=2|[7] |-|4 Your Eyez Only|Album of the Year||-|2018|Himself|Best Male Hip Hop Artist ||[8] |-|rowspan=4|2019|Himself|Best Male Hip Hop Artist ||rowspan=4|[9] [10] |-|rowspan=2|"A Lot" (with 21 Savage)|Video of the Year||-|Best Collaboration||-|"Middle Child"|Viewers' Choice Award||-|rowspan=1|2021|Himself|Best Male Hip Hop Artist ||rowspan=1|[11] |-|}
!|-|2011|Friday Night Lights|Best Mixtape||[12] |-|rowspan="6"|2012||CD of the Year||rowspan="6"|[13] |-|rowspan="4"|Himself|MVP of the Year||-|Producer of the Year||-|Lyricist of the Year||-|Best Live Performer||-|"Nobody's Perfect" |Reese's Perfect Combo Award (Best collaboration)||-|rowspan="10"|2013|Born Sinner|Album of the Year||rowspan="10"|[14] |-|rowspan="4"|"Power Trip" |Best Collabo, Duo or Group||-|Best Hip-Hop Video||-|Track of the Year||-|People's Champ Award||-|rowspan="4"|Himself|MVP of the Year||-|Producer of the Year||-|Lyricist of the Year||-|Best Live Performer||-|rowspan="2"|"Crooked Smile" |Impact Track||-|rowspan="2"|2014|Best Hip Hop Video||rowspan="2"|[15] |-|rowspan="6"|Himself|rowspan="2"|Lyricist of the Year||-|rowspan="8"|2015||rowspan="8"|[16] |-|MVP of the Year||-|Producer of the Year||-|Best Live Performer||-|Hustler of the Year||-|2014 Forest Hills Drive|Album of the Year||-|"Apparently"|rowspan="3"|Impact Track||-|"Be Free"||-|rowspan="3"|2016|"Love Yourz"||rowspan="3"|[17] |-|rowspan="2"|Himself|Hot Ticket Performer||-|Lyricist of the Year||-|rowspan="3"|2017|4 Your Eyez Only|Album of the Year||rowspan="3"||-|rowspan="2"|Himself|Hot Ticket Performer||-|Lyricist of the Year||-|rowspan="3"|2018|KOD|Album of the Year||rowspan="3"|[18] |-|rowspan="4"|Himself|MVP of the Year||-|rowspan="2"|Lyricist of the Year||-|rowspan="8"|2019||rowspan="8"|[19] |-|MVP of the Year||-|Revenge of the Dreamers III|Album of the Year||-|rowspan="4"|"A Lot" (with 21 Savage)|Best Hip Hop Video||-|Best Collabo, Duo or Group||-|Sweet 16: Best Featured Verse||-|rowspan="2"|Impact Track||-|"Middle Child"||-|rowspan="2"|2020|Himself|Lyricist of the Year||rowspan="2"|[20] |-|"Snow on tha Bluff"|Impact Track||-|rowspan="3"|2021|rowspan="2"|Himself|Artist of the Year||rowspan="3"|[21] |-|Lyricist of the Year||-|The Off-Season| Album of the Year||-|rowspan="7"|2023|rowspan="2"|Himself|Artist of the Year||rowspan="7"|[22] |-|Lyricist of the Year||-|rowspan="4"|"All My Life"|Song of the Year||-|Best Collaboration||-|Sweet 16: Best Featured Verse||-|Impact Track||-|}
!|-||2014|Born Sinner|rowspan="2"|Top Rap Album||[23] |-|rowspan="2"|2015|2014 Forest Hills Drive||rowspan="2"|[24] |-|rowspan="2"|Himself|rowspan="2"|Top Rap Artist||-|rowspan=2|2017||rowspan=2|[25] |-|4 Your Eyez Only|Top Rap Album||-|2018|4 Your Eyez Only World Tour|rowspan=2|Top Rap Tour||[26] |-|2022|The Off-Season Tour||[27] |}
| Year | Category | Work | Outcome | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Best New Artist | Himself | [28] | ||
| 2014 | Best Rap/Sung Performance | "Power Trip" | |||
| 2016 | Best Rap Album | 2014 Forest Hills Drive | |||
| Best Rap Performance | "Apparently" | ||||
| Best R&B Performance | "Planez" | ||||
| 2019 | Best Rap/Sung Performance | "Pretty Little Fears" | |||
| Best R&B Song | "Come Through and Chill" | ||||
| 2020 | Best Rap Performance | "Middle Child" | |||
| "Down Bad" (with JID, Bas, EarthGang and Young Nudy) | |||||
| Best Rap Song | "A Lot" (with 21 Savage) | ||||
| Best Rap/Sung Performance | "The London" (with Young Thug and Travis Scott) | ||||
| Best Rap Album | Revenge of the Dreamers III | ||||
| 2022 | Best Rap Performance | "My Life" (featuring 21 Savage and Morray) | [29] | ||
| Best Rap Song | |||||
| Best Melodic Rap Performance | "Pride Is the Devil" (featuring Lil Baby) | ||||
| Best Rap Album | The Off-Season | ||||
| 2024 | Best Melodic Rap Performance | "All My Life" (with Lil Durk) | [30] |
!|-|2018|Wireless Festival|Best World Stage|| [31] |-|2019|Himself|Best Hip-Hop||[32] |}
!|-|2013|"Power Trip" |Best Hip Hop||[33] |-|2014|"Crooked Smile" |Best Video with a Social Message||[34] |-|rowspan="2"|2018|rowspan="2"|"ATM (Addicted to Money)"|Best Art Direction||rowspan="2"||-|rowspan="2"| Best Hip Hop||-|rowspan="3"|2019|rowspan="2"|"A Lot" (with 21 Savage)||rowspan="3"||-|Video of the Year||-|"The London" (with Travis Scott and Young Thug)|Song of the Summer||-|}
!|-|2012|Himself|Woodie of the Year: Series of Popular Mixtapes ||[35] |}
!|-|rowspan="3"|2016|rowspan="3"|"No Sleeep" (with Janet Jackson) |Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration||rowspan="3"|[36] |-|Outstanding Music Video||-|Outstanding Song, Contemporary||-|rowspan="1"|2020|"Shea Butter Baby" (with Ari Lennox)| Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration||rowspan="1"|[37] |-|rowspan="2"|2022|Himself|Outstanding Male Artist||rowspan="2"|[38] |-|"My Life" (with 21 Savage) |Outstanding Hip Hop/Rap Song||}
!|-|2012|Himself|Best New Artist ||[39] |-|rowspan=3|2013|rowspan=2"|Power Trip" featuring Miguel|Best Hip-Hop Song of the Year||rowspan=3|[40] |-|Best Collaboration||-|"Crooked Smile" featuring TLC|The Ashford and Simpson Songwriter's Award||-|2015|"Apparently"|The Ashford and Simpson Songwriter's Award||[41] |-|rowspan=4|2019| "A Lot" (with 21 Savage)|rowspan=2|Best Hip-Hop Song Of The Year||rowspan=4|[42] |-|"Middle Child"||-| "Shea Butter Baby" (with Ari Lennox)|rowspan=2|Best Collaboration Performance||-| "Purple Emoji" (with Ty Dolla Sign)||}