As you look straight ahead you will see a door to the director’s office. To the left of this door, on a western dividing wall, you will see a portrait of Bradbury with his French Order of Arts and Letters Commandeur’s Medal, presented by the French Ambassador to the United States in 2007. In the tall glass case to the left of the director’s office you see on the top shelf Bradbury with President and Mrs. George Bush accepting the National Medal of Arts award in November 2004.

On the next shelf down, in the middle of the case, is his Academy Award Nomination for Best Short Subject film titled, “Icarus Montgolfier Wright” from 1962 about the night before the first astronaut goes to the moon, and the dream he has about the “shoulders” he is standing on: Icarus from mythology, who flew too close to the sun; the Montgolfier brothers who invented the hot air balloon in France in the 1780s and the Wright brothers’ first powered and controlled flight in Kitty Hawk, NC in 1903.

Ray Bradbury earned two Emmy Awards, one for the screenplay of the “Halloween Tree” in 1993 on the second shelf on the right; and directly beneath that on the third shelf is one for the Documentary Presentation – “Infinite Horizons: Space after Apollo” in 1979.

On the second shelf on the left is his Pulitzer Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2007.
On the third shelf in the middle is the Peabody Award for Project Peacock/The Electric Grandmother awarded to him in 1982, and to the left of that is his Grammy Award Nomination for the Listening Library Recording for Bradbury’s “F-451” Album in 1976.

These are just a few of the many awards he received over the years. The Bradbury Center also curates his Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, several of his Cable/ACE Awards for The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985–1992), and his lifetime achievement medal from the National Book Foundation.