Astaire ya sami lambar yabo ta Academy Award a cikin 1950 saboda "zane-zane na musamman da gudummawarsa ga fasahar hotunan kiɗa." Yana riƙe da lambobin yabo don goma daga cikin mawakan fim ɗinsa da aka saki tsakanin 1934-1961, gami da "Top Hat", "Funny Face", da "Daɗin Kamfaninsa". Ya lashe Emmys guda biyar don aikinsa a talabijin, ciki har da uku don nunin nuninsa iri-iri, Maraice tare da Fred Astaire (1959, wanda ya ci Emmys tara da ba a taɓa gani ba gabaɗaya!) Da Wani Maraice tare da Fred Astaire (1960).

A cikin shekarunsa na baya, ya ci gaba da fitowa a fina -finai, gami da “Rainbow na Finian” (1968), da “The Towering Inferno” (1974) wanda ya ba shi kyautar Oscar. Ya kuma taka rawa a cikin ayyukan talabijin akan shirye -shirye kamar Yana Daukar Barawo, da kuma Battlestar Galactica (wanda ya ce ya yarda, saboda tasirin jikokinsa). Har ila yau, Astaire ya ba da muryarsa ga ƙwararrun TV na yara masu rai, musamman, Santa Claus Yana Zuwa Garin (1970), da kuma Bunny na Ista yana zuwa garin (1977). Astaire ya karɓi Kyautar Nasarar Rayuwa a 1981 daga Cibiyar Fina -Finan Amurka, wanda a cikin 2011, kuma ya sanya masa suna "Babban Jarumi na Biyar" (a tsakanin su "Manyan Labarai 50 Mafi Girma"Lissafi).

Fred Astaire ya mutu a shekara ta 1987 sakamakon ciwon huhu, yana ɗan shekara 88. Tare da rasuwarsa, duniya ta rasa wani labari na rawa na gaskiya. Ba za a sake ganin haske da alherinsa ba. Kamar yadda Mikhail Baryshnikov ya lura a lokacin mutuwar Fred Astaire, "Babu wani dan rawa da zai iya kallon Fred Astaire kuma bai san cewa yakamata duk mu kasance cikin wata harkar ba."