List of awards and nominations received by Katharine Hepburn
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Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) was an American actress of film, stage and television. Her career spanned 66 years and eight decades (1928–1994), during which time she was honored with many of the industry's top awards. She was nominated for a total of 12 Academy Awards for Best Actress and won four—the record amount of wins for a performer. She received two awards and five nominations from the British Academy Film Awards, one award and six nominations from the Emmy Awards, eight Golden Globe nominations and two Tony Award nominations. She won awards from the Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival and Montréal World Film Festival; the New York Film Critics Circle Awards and the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards; the People's Choice Awards, the Laurel Awards, the Golden Apple Awards, the American Movie Awards, the American Comedy Awards and the David di Donatello Awards. Hepburn was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1979. She also won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1979 and received the Kennedy Center Honors, which recognize a lifetime of accomplishments in the arts, in 1990. Outside of acting, Hepburn also received recognition from the American Humanist Association and the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
Chronological listing
Year of eligibility | Title of Project | Award |
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1933 | Morning Glory | Academy Award for Best Actress |
Little Women | Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress | |
1935 | Alice Adams | Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actress |
1940 | The Philadelphia Story | New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actress |
1942 | Woman of the Year | Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actress |
1951 | The African Queen | Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated-BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress |
1952 | Pat and Mike | Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
1955 | Summertime | Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated-BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress |
1956 | The Rainmaker | Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated-BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama |
1959 | Suddenly, Last Summer | Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama Nominated- Laurel Award for Top Female Dramatic Performance |
1962 | Long Day's Journey into Night | Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress Silver Goddess for Best Foreign Actress Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama Nominated- Laurel Award for Top Female Dramatic Performance |
1967 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Academy Award for Best Actress BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (also for The Lion in Winter) David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama |
1968 | The Lion in Winter | Academy Award for Best Actress BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (also for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) Laurel Award for Top Female Dramatic Performance Laurel Award for Top Female Star Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama |
1970 | Coco | Nominated-Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical |
1972 | The Trojan Women | Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress |
1973 | The Glass Menagerie | Nominated-Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie |
1975 | Love Among the Ruins | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie |
1979 | The Corn is Green | Nominated-Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie |
1981 | On Golden Pond | Academy Award for Best Actress American Movie Award for Best Actress BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Golden Apple Award for Female Star of the Year People's Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture Actress Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama |
1982 | The West Side Waltz | Nominated-Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play |
1984 | Grace Quigley | Montréal World Film Festival Special Prize of the Jury |
1986 | The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn | Nominated-Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series |
Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry | Nominated-Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie | |
1992 | The Man Upstairs | Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television |
1993 | All About Me | Nominated-Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series |
1994 | One Christmas | Nominated-Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie |
By organization
Academy Awards
Year | Category | Film | Result | Winner |
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1934 | Best Actress | Morning Glory | Won | N/A |
1936 | Best Actress | Alice Adams | Nominated | Bette Davis (Dangerous) |
1941 | Best Actress | The Philadelphia Story | Nominated | Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle) |
1943 | Best Actress | Woman of the Year | Nominated | Greer Garson (Mrs Miniver) |
1952 | Best Actress | The African Queen | Nominated | Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire) |
1956 | Best Actress | Summertime | Nominated | Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo) |
1957 | Best Actress | The Rainmaker | Nominated | Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia) |
1960 | Best Actress | Suddenly, Last Summer | Nominated | Simone Signoret (Room at the Top) |
1963 | Best Actress | Long Day's Journey into Night | Nominated | Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker) |
1968 | Best Actress | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Won | N/A |
1969 | Best Actress | The Lion in Winter | Won | Tied with Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl); one of two women (along with Luise Rainer) to win the Best Actress Oscar in consecutive years |
1982 | Best Actress | On Golden Pond | Won | N/A |
BAFTA Awards
Year | Category | Film | Result | Winner |
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1953 | Best Foreign Actress | The African Queen | Nominated | Simone Signoret (Casque d'or) |
1956 | Best Foreign Actress | Summertime | Nominated | Betsy Blair (Marty) |
1958 | Best Foreign Actress | The Rainmaker | Nominated | Simone Signoret (The Crucible) |
1969 | Best Actress | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and The Lion in Winter | Won | N/A |
1982 | Best Actress | On Golden Pond | Won | N/A |
Golden Globe Awards
Year | Category | Film | Result | Winner |
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1953 | Best Actress - Musical or Comedy | Pat and Mike | Nominated | Susan Hayward (With a Song in My Heart) |
1957 | Best Actress - Drama | The Rainmaker | Nominated | Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia) |
1960 | Best Actress - Drama | Suddenly, Last Summer | Nominated | Elizabeth Taylor (Suddenly, Last Summer) |
1963 | Best Actress - Drama | Long Day's Journey into Night | Nominated | Geraldine Page (Sweet Bird of Youth) |
1968 | Best Actress - Drama | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Nominated | Edith Evans (The Whisperers) |
1969 | Best Actress - Drama | The Lion in Winter | Nominated | Joanne Woodward (Rachel, Rachel) |
1982 | Best Actress - Drama | On Golden Pond | Nominated | Meryl Streep (The French Lieutenant's Woman) |
1993 | Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Movie | The Man Upstairs | Nominated | Laura Dern (Afterburn) |
Emmy Awards
Year | Category | Film | Result | Winner |
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1974 | Best Actress in a Drama | The Glass Menagerie | Nominated | Cicely Tyson (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman) |
1975 | Best Actress in a Special - Drama or Comedy | Love Among the Ruins | Won | N/A |
1979 | Best Actress in a Limited Series or Special | The Corn is Green | Nominated | Bette Davis (Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter) |
1986 | Best Actress in a Miniseries or Special | Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry | Nominated | Marlo Thomas (Nobody's Child) |
Outstanding Informational Special | The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn | Nominated | Robert B. Weide and Ronald J. Fields (W.C. Fields: Straight Up) | |
1993 | Outstanding Informational Special | Katharine Hepburn: All About Me | Nominated | Lucie Arnaz, Laurence Luckinbill and Don Buford (Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie) |
Tony Awards
Year | Category | Play | Result | Winner |
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1970 | Best Actress in a Musical | Coco | Nominated | Lauren Bacall (Applause) |
1982 | Best Actress in a Play | The West Side Waltz | Nominated | Zoe Caldwell (Medea) |
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Year | Category | Film | Result | Winner |
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1979 | Lifetime Achievement Award | N/A | Won | N/A |
1995 | Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie | One Christmas | Nominated | Joanne Woodward (Breathing Lessons) |
Festival awards
Year | Award | Film | Result | Winner |
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1934 | Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress | Little Women | Won | N/A |
1962 | Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress | Long Day's Journey into Night | Won | N/A |
1984 | Montréal World Film Festival, Special Prize of the Jury | Grace Quigley | Won | N/A |
Critics awards
Year | Award | Film | Result | Winner |
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1940 | New York Film Critics Award for Best Actress | The Philadelphia Story | Won | N/A |
1965 | Mexican Cinema Journalists Award for Best Foreign Actress | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Won | N/A |
1973 | Kansas City Film Critics Award for Best Actress | The Trojan Women | Won | N/A |
People's Choice Awards
Year | Category | Film | Result | Winner |
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1976 | Favorite Motion Picture Actress | N/A | Won | N/A |
1983 | Favorite Motion Picture Actress | N/A | Won | N/A |
Laurel Awards
Year | Category | Film | Result | Winner |
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1960 | Top Female Dramatic Performance | Suddenly, Last Summer | Nominated | Elizabeth Taylor (Suddenly, Last Summer) |
1963 | Top Female Dramatic Performance | Long Day's Journey into Night | Nominated | Lee Remick (Days of Wine and Roses) |
1970 | Top Female Dramatic Performance | The Lion in Winter | Won | N/A |
Top Female Star | N/A | Won | N/A | |
1971 | Top Female Star | N/A | Won | N/A |
Golden Apple Awards
Year | Category | Film | Result | Winner |
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1975 | Female Star of the Year | N/A | Won | N/A |
1982 | Female Star of the Year | N/A | Won | N/A |
Other
Year | Award | Film | Result | Winner |
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1958 | Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year | N/A | Won | N/A |
1960 | Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame | N/A | Won | N/A |
1968 | David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Won | N/A |
1979 | Induction into the American Theater Hall of Fame[1] | N/A | Won | N/A |
1982 | American Movie Award for Best Actress | On Golden Pond | Won | N/A |
1985 | American Humanist Association, Humanist Arts Award | N/A | Won | N/A |
1985 | Council of Fashion Designers of America, Lifetime Achievement Award | N/A | Won | N/A |
1989 | American Comedy Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy | N/A | Won | N/A |
1990 | Kennedy Center Honors | N/A | Won | N/A |
See also
- Katharine Hepburn film and theatre credits
References
- "Katharine Hepburn Academy Awards history". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- "Katharine Hepburn - Awards". Internet Movie Database.
- "Katharine Hepburn Emmy Awards history". Primetime Emmy Awards.
- "Katharine Hepburn Golden Globe Awards history". The Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
- "Past Winners". Council of Fashion Designers of America.
- "List of Kennedy Center Honorees". The Kennedy Center.
- Dickens, Homer (1990). The Films of Katharine Hepburn. Citadel Pr; 1st Carol Pub. ISBN 0-8065-1175-3.
Notes
- ↑ "Theater Hall of Fame Enshrines 51 Artists". New York Times.
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