The Ray Bradbury Award for excellency in screenwriting was occasionally presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America – presented to six people on four occasions from 1992 to 2009.[112] Beginning 2010, the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation is presented annually according to Nebula Awards rules and procedures, although it is not a Nebula Award.[113] The revamped Bradbury Award replaced the Nebula Award for Best Script.
- In 1971, an impact crater on the Moon was named Dandelion by the Apollo 15 astronauts, in honor of Bradbury's 1957 novel Dandelion Wine.[114]
- In 1979, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (Litt.D.) degree from Whittier College.[115]
- In 1984, he received the Prometheus Award for Fahrenheit 451.
- In 1986, Ray Bradbury was a Guest of Honor at the 44th World Science Fiction Convention, which was held in Atlanta, Ga., from August 28 to September 1.[116]
- Ray Bradbury Park was dedicated in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1990. He was present for the ribbon-cutting ceremony. The park contains locations described in Dandelion Wine, most notably the "113 steps". In 2009, a panel designed by artist Michael Pavelich was added to the park detailing the history of Ray Bradbury and Ray Bradbury Park.[117]
- An asteroid discovered in 1992 was named "9766 Bradbury"[118] in his honor.
- In 1994, he received the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award, presented annually by the Tulsa Library Trust.
- In 1994, he won an Emmy Award for the screenplay The Halloween Tree.
- In 2000, he was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation.[119]
- For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Bradbury was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 1, 2002.[120]
- In 2003, he received an honorary doctorate from Woodbury University, where he presented the Ray Bradbury Creativity Award each year until his death.[121]
- On November 17, 2004, Bradbury received the National Medal of Arts, presented by President George W. Bush and Laura Bush.[122]
- Bradbury received a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement at the 1977 World Fantasy Convention and was named Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy at the 1980 World Science Fiction Convention.[123] In 1989 the Horror Writers Association gave him the fourth or fifth Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in horror fiction[124] and the Science Fiction Writers of America made him its 10th SFWA Grand Master.[125] He won a First Fandom Hall of Fame Award in 1996[126] and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted him in 1999, its fourth class of two deceased and two living writers.[127]
- In 2005, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) by the National University of Ireland, Galway, at a conferring ceremony in Los Angeles.
- On April 14, 2007, Bradbury received the Sir Arthur Clarke Award's Special Award, given by Clarke to a recipient of his choice.
- On April 16, 2007, Bradbury received a special citation by the Pulitzer Prize jury "for his distinguished, prolific, and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy".[128]
- In 2007, Bradbury was made a Commandeur (Commander) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of the Arts and Letters) by the French government.[129]
- In 2008, he was named SFPA Grandmaster.[130]
- On May 17, 2008, Bradbury received the inaugural J. Lloyd Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award in Science Fiction, presented by the UCR Libraries at the 2008 Eaton Science Fiction Conference, "Chronicling Mars".[131]
- On November 19, 2008, Bradbury was presented with the Illinois Literary Heritage Award by the Illinois Center for the Book.
- In 2009, Bradbury was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Columbia College Chicago.[132]
- In 2010, Spike TV Scream Awards Comic-Con Icon Award went to Bradbury
- In 2012, the NASA Curiosity rover landing site (4°35′22″S 137°26′30″E / 4.5895°S 137.4417°E / -4.5895; 137.4417)[133][134] on the planet Mars was named "Bradbury Landing".[135][136]
- On December 6, 2012, the Los Angeles street corner at 5th and Flower Streets was named "Ray Bradbury Square" in his honor.[137]
- On February 24, 2013, Bradbury was honored at the 85th Academy Awards during that event's "In Memoriam" segment.[138]