List of awards and nominations received by Katharine Hepburn
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Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) was an American actress in film, stage, and television. Her career spanned 67 years through eight decades (1928–1995), during which she was honored with many of the industry's top awards.
In 2000, at age 93, she was named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star of Classic Hollywood cinema.
Awards synopsis
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Hepburn was nominated for a total of 12 Academy Awards for Best Actress, and won four – the record number 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 also 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.
Hepburn won four Academy Awards, the record number for a performer, and received a total of 12 Oscar nominations for Best Actress — a number surpassed only by Meryl Streep.[1] Hepburn also holds the record for the longest time span between first and last Oscar nominations, at 48 years.[1] International awards from the Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the People's Choice Awards, and others. 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.[2][3]
Recognitions
[edit]Organizations[a] | Year[b] | Category | Work | Result | |
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Academy Awards | 1934 | Best Actress | Morning Glory | Won | |
1936 | Alice Adams | Nominated | |||
1941 | The Philadelphia Story | Nominated | |||
1943 | Woman of the Year | Nominated | |||
1952 | The African Queen | Nominated | |||
1956 | Summertime | Nominated | |||
1957 | The Rainmaker | Nominated | |||
1960 | Suddenly, Last Summer | Nominated | |||
1963 | Long Day's Journey into Night | Nominated | |||
1968 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Won | |||
1969 | The Lion in Winter[c] | Won | |||
1982 | On Golden Pond | Won | |||
BAFTA Film Awards | 1953 | Best Foreign Actress | The African Queen | Nominated | |
1956 | Summertime | Nominated | |||
1958 | The Rainmaker | Nominated | |||
1969 | Best Actress | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner The Lion in Winter | Won | ||
1983 | On Golden Pond | Won |
Golden Globe Awards
[edit]The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. Hepburn has received eight nominations, including one in Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical, six from Best Actress in a Drama, and one from Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film.
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 | Suddenly, Last Summer | Nominated | Elizabeth Taylor (Suddenly, Last Summer) | |
1963 | Long Day's Journey into Night | Nominated | Geraldine Page (Sweet Bird of Youth) | |
1968 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Nominated | Edith Evans (The Whisperers) | |
1969 | The Lion in Winter | Nominated | Joanne Woodward (Rachel, Rachel) | |
1982 | On Golden Pond | Nominated | Meryl Streep (The French Lieutenant's Woman) | |
1993 | Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film | The Man Upstairs | Nominated | Laura Dern (Afterburn) |
Grammy Awards
[edit]The Grammy Awards, is an annual award show presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievements in the music industry. The ceremonial event was first held on May 4, 1959.
Year | Category | Work | Result | Winner |
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1992 | Best Spoken Word Album | Me: Stories of My Life | Nominated | Ken Burns (The Civil War) |
Emmy Awards
[edit]The Primetime Emmy Award is an American accolade bestowed by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in American prime time television programming. First given in 1949, the award was originally referred to as simply the Emmy Awards or Emmy.
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 | — |
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) |
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special|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 | Katharine Hepburn: All About Me | Nominated | Lucie Arnaz, Laurence Luckinbill, and Don Buford (Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie) |
Tony Award
[edit]The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known informally as the Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League.
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
[edit]Year | Category | Film | Result | Winner |
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1979 | Lifetime Achievement Award | — | Won | — |
1995 | Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie | One Christmas | Nominated | Joanne Woodward (Breathing Lessons) |
Festival awards
[edit]Year | Award | Film | Result | Winner |
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1934 | Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress | Little Women | Won | — |
1962 | Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress | Long Day's Journey into Night | Won | — |
1984 | Montréal World Film Festival, Special Prize of the Jury | Grace Quigley | Won | — |
Critics awards
[edit]Year | Award | Film | Result | Winner |
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1940 | New York Film Critics Award for Best Actress | The Philadelphia Story | Won | — |
1965 | Mexican Cinema Journalists Award for Best Foreign Actress | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Won | — |
1973 | Kansas City Film Critics Award for Best Actress | The Trojan Women | Won | — |
People's Choice Awards
[edit]Year | Category | Film | Result | Winner |
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1976 | Favorite Motion Picture Actress | — | Won | — |
1983 | — | Won | — |
Laurel Awards
[edit]Year | Category | Film | Result | Winner |
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1960 | Top Female Dramatic Performance | Suddenly, Last Summer | Nominated | Elizabeth Taylor (Suddenly, Last Summer) |
1963 | Long Day's Journey into Night | Nominated | Lee Remick (Days of Wine and Roses) | |
1970 | The Lion in Winter | Won | — | |
Top Female Star | — | Won | — | |
1971 | Top Female Star | — | Won | — |
Golden Apple Awards
[edit]Year | Category | Film | Result | Winner |
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1975 | Female Star of the Year | — | Won | — |
1982 | — | Won | — |
Other
[edit]Year | Award | Film | Result | Winner |
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1958 | Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year | — | Won | — |
1960 | Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame | — | Won | — |
1968 | David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Won | — |
1979 | Induction into the American Theater Hall of Fame[4] | — | Won | — |
1982 | American Movie Award for Best Actress | On Golden Pond | Won | — |
1985 | American Humanist Association, Humanist Arts Award | — | Won | — |
1985 | Council of Fashion Designers of America, Lifetime Achievement Award | — | Won | — |
1989 | American Comedy Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy | — | Won | — |
1990 | Kennedy Center Honors | — | Won | — |
Noted
[edit]- ^ Awards, festivals, honors and other miscellaneous organizations are listed in alphabetical order.
- ^ Year in which award ceremony was held.
- ^ Tied with Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl); one of two women (along with Luise Rainer) to win the Best Actress Oscar in consecutive years.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- "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. Archived from the original on 2012-10-14.
- "Past Winners". Council of Fashion Designers of America. Archived from the original on 2010-02-05.
- "List of Kennedy Center Honorees". The Kennedy Center. Archived from the original on 2008-12-09.
- Dickens, Homer (1990). The Films of Katharine Hepburn. Citadel Pr; 1st Carol Pub. ISBN 0-8065-1175-3.
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b "Academy Awards Best Actress". filmsite. Archived from the original on February 11, 2015. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
- ^ "Katharine Hepburn – Awards". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on October 4, 2011. Retrieved September 27, 2011.
- ^ "List of Kennedy Center Honorees". The Kennedy Center. Archived from the original on January 14, 2015. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
- ^ "Theater Hall of Fame Enshrines 51 Artists" (PDF). New York Times.