Ua loaʻa iā Astaire kahi makana Academy hanohano ma 1950 no kāna "ʻoihana kiʻi kūʻokoʻa a me kāna mau haʻawina i ke ʻano o nā kiʻi mele." Loaʻa iā ia nā hōʻaiʻē choreography no ʻumi o kāna mau mele kiʻiʻoniʻoni i hoʻokuʻu ʻia ma waena o 1934-1961, me ka "Top Hat", "Funny Face", a me "The Pleasure of His Company". Ua lanakila ʻo ia i ʻelima mau Emmy no kāna hana ma ke kīwī, ʻo ia hoʻi ʻekolu no kāna mau hōʻikeʻike like ʻole, He ahiahi me Fred Astaire (1959, ua lanakila ʻo ia i ʻeiwa mau Emmys ma mua!) a me kekahi ahiahi me Fred Astaire (1960).

I kona mau makahiki hope, ua hoʻomau ʻo ia e hōʻike i nā kiʻi ʻoniʻoni, e like me "Finian's Rainbow" (1968), a me "The Towering Inferno" (1974) i loaʻa iā ia kahi koho Oscar. Ua hōkū ʻo ia i nā hana kīwī ma nā papahana e like me Lawe ʻia kahi ʻaihue, a Battlestar Galactica (kahi āna i ʻōlelo ai ua ʻae ʻo ia, ma muli o ka mana o kāna moʻopuna). Ua hāʻawi pū ʻo Astaire i kona leo i kekahi mau kīwī kīwī Animated, ʻoi loa, Hele mai ʻo Santa Claus i ke kaona (1970), a me ʻO ka Bunny Easter ka Comin 'i Town (1977). Ua loaʻa iā Astaire kahi makana holoʻokoʻa i ke ola ma 1981 mai ka American Film Institute, a ma 2011, ua kapa ʻia ʻo ia ʻo "The Fifth Greatest Actor" (i waena o kā lākou "Nā 50 Legends pale nui loa”Papa inoa).

Ua make ʻo Fred Astaire i ka makahiki 1987 mai ka maʻi ʻaʻai, i ka makahiki 88. Me kona hala ʻana, ua lilo ka honua i kaao kaʻao maoli. ʻAʻole e ʻike hou ʻia kona māmā māmā a me kāna lokomaikaʻi. E like me kā Mikhail Baryshnikov e nānā nei i ka manawa o ka make ʻana o Fred Astaire, "ʻAʻohe mea hulahula e hiki ke nānā iā Fred Astaire a ʻike ʻole he pono mākou a pau i kahi ʻoihana ʻē aʻe."