The following is a list of awards and nominations received by British-American actress Dame Angela Lansbury.
Lansbury in a trailer for Gaslight (1944), for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. | ||
Award | Wins | Nominations |
---|---|---|
Academy Awards | 0 (H) | 3 |
Tony Awards | 5 (H) | 7 |
Golden Globe Awards | 6 | 15 |
Primetime Emmy Awards | 0 | 18 |
Grammy Awards | 0 | 1 |
Lansbury is one of few performers who have received nominations for all EGOT awards — Emmy, Grammy, Academy Award (Oscar), and Tony Awards.
Lansbury, an icon in musical theatre, received seven Tony Award nominations winning five awards for Mame in 1966, Dear World in 1969, Gypsy in 1975, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 1979, and Blithe Spirit in 2009. In 2022 she received the Lifetime Achievement Tony Award. She also earned a Laurence Olivier Award, three Drama Desk Awards, and two Outer Critics Circle Awards.
For her work in film she earned three Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Gaslight (1944), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), and The Manchurian Candidate (1962). She received an Honorary Academy Award for her lifetime achievement in film in 2013. She also earned two Golden Globe Awards for The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Manchurian Candidate. She earned a Grammy Award nomination for Album of the Year for Beauty and the Beast (1991). For her work in television she earned 18 Primetime Emmy Award nominations including 12 consecutive nominations for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote (1984-1996). She also received four Golden Globe Awards for Murder, She Wrote. In 1997 she earned a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and in 2003 she earned a Britannia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Television and Film.
Major associations edit
Academy Awards edit
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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1944 | Best Supporting Actress | Gaslight | Nominated |
1945 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Nominated | |
1962 | The Manchurian Candidate | Nominated | |
2013 | Academy Honorary Award | Won |
Grammy Awards edit
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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1993 | Album of the Year | Beauty and the Beast | Nominated |
Emmy Awards edit
Lansbury was nominated for eighteen Primetime Emmy Awards without a win, including twelve consecutive nominations as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for every season of Murder, She Wrote, the most-nominated performer in this category.
Tony Awards edit
Lansbury won five competitive Tony Awards. She tied with Julie Harris, and was surpassed only by Audra McDonald with six wins for the most Tonys any performer has received. (Both Harris and Lansbury have also been awarded Special Tonys as their sixth non-competitive award.):[2] Lansbury was one of only five perfomers who have been nominated for all four Tony acting awards, the others being Raúl Esparza, Jan Maxwell, Boyd Gaines, and Audra McDonald.
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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1966 | Best Actress in a Musical | Mame | Won |
1969 | Dear World | Won | |
1975 | Gypsy | Won | |
1979 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Won | |
2007 | Best Actress in a Play | Deuce | Nominated |
2009 | Best Featured Actress in a Play | Blithe Spirit | Won |
2010 | Best Featured Actress in a Musical | A Little Night Music | Nominated |
2022 | Lifetime Achievement Tony Award | Won |
Theater awards edit
Drama Desk Awards edit
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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1975 | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Gypsy | Won |
1978 | The King and I | Nominated | |
1979 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Won | |
2009 | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Blithe Spirit | Won |
2010 | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | A Little Night Music | Nominated |
2012 | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | The Best Man | Nominated |
Laurence Olivier Awards edit
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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2015 | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Blithe Spirit | Won |
Outer Critics Circle Awards edit
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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1966 | Outstanding Performance | Mame | Won |
2009 | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Blithe Spirit | Won |
2010 | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | A Little Night Music | Nominated |
2012 | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | The Best Man | Nominated |
Film and television awards edit
Golden Globe Awards edit
Lansbury was nominated for fifteen Golden Globes, and won six times.[3] Lansbury tied with Alan Alda, Shirley MacLaine, and Jack Nicholson as the second-most awarded performer in acting categories, and surpassed only by Meryl Streep with eight wins.
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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1945 | Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Won |
1962 | The Manchurian Candidate | Won | |
1970 | Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | Something for Everyone | Nominated |
1971 | Bedknobs and Broomsticks | Nominated | |
1983 | Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or TV Film | The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story | Nominated |
1984 | Best Actress – Television Series Drama | Murder, She Wrote | Won |
1985 | Nominated | ||
1986 | Won | ||
1987 | Nominated | ||
1988 | Nominated | ||
1989 | Won | ||
1990 | Nominated | ||
1991 | Won | ||
1992 | Nominated | ||
1994 | Nominated |
BAFTA Awards edit
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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BAFTA Award | |||
1978 | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Death on the Nile | Nominated |
1991 | Special Award | Won | |
Britannia Award | |||
2003 | Lifetime Achievement in Television and Film | — | Won |
Screen Actors Guild Awards edit
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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1995 | Female Actor in a Drama Series | Murder, She Wrote | Nominated |
1997 | Life Time Achievement Award | Won |
Annie Award edit
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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1998 | Outstanding Female in an Animated Feature Production | Anastasia | Nominated |
Honorary Awards edit
- 1968 – Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year[4]
- 1981 – nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actress for The Mirror Crack'd
- 1988 – George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement, UCLA Spring Sing[5]
- 1994 – Queen Elizabeth II appointed her a Commander of the Order of the British Empire "for services to the dramatic arts"[6]
- 1995 – given the Disney Legend award[7]
- 1996 – awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television.[8]
- 1996 – Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award[9]
- 1996 – Television Critics Association – Career Achievement Award[10]
- 1997 – awarded the National Medal of Arts[11]
- 2000 – Kennedy Center Honors Awards recipient[12]
- 2000 – The New Dramatists Lifetime Achievement Award[13]
- 2002 – The Acting Company's First Lifetime Achievement Award[14]
- 2003 – awarded the Britannia Award for Lifetime Achievement by the British Academy Film Awards[15]
- 2004 – The Actors Fund of America Lifetime Achievement[16]
- 2008 – bestowed a Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa degree from the University of Miami; she was also the guest speaker at the commencement ceremony[17]
- 2009 – Drama League Award – The Unique Contribution to the Theatre Award[18]
- 2010 – Drama League Honors[19]
- 2010 – Signature Theatre Sondheim Award[20]
- 2010 – Honorary Chairman of the American Theatre Wing[21]
- 2014 New Year's Honours List – Queen Elizabeth II appointed her a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire "for services to drama and to charitable work and philanthropy".[22]
- 2022 Tony Awards – Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement[23]
Lansbury has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame – one for film (north side of the 6600 block of Hollywood Boulevard) and one for television (west side of the 1500 block of Vine Street)[24]
In 1982, Lansbury was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.[25] She was also inducted into the Television Hall of Fame of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, an honour she earned in 1996.[26]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Angela Lansbury". Archived from the original on 4 March 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
- ^ "Tony Awards Legacy Facts and Trivia" Archived 2008-09-06 at the Wayback Machine, TonyAwards.com; retrieved 7 February 2010.
- ^ Profile Archived 2013-12-03 at the Wayback Machine, goldenglobes.org; accessed 17 September 2015.
- ^ "A short history of the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year awards" Archived 2016-03-08 at the Wayback Machine, bostonglobe.com, January 25, 2015
- ^ "Calendar & Events: Spring Sing: Gershwin Award". University of California, Los Angeles. Archived from the original on 2011-08-17.
- ^ London Gazette: no. 53696, "Supplement to the London Gazette, 11th June 1994 Archived 2013-05-02 at the Wayback Machine. p. 26; retrieved May 3, 2009.
- ^ "Disney Legends". Archived from the original on 2013-01-17. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
- ^ "Past Recipients". Women in Film Los Angeles. Archived from the original on August 30, 2011. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
- ^ "Life Achievement Award, 33rd" Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine sagawards.org, accessed April 13, 2015
- ^ "Awards" Archived 2016-01-23 at the Wayback Machine tvcritics.org, accessed April 13, 2015
- ^ "Lifetime Honors – National Medal of Arts". National Endowment for the Arts. Archived from the original on August 5, 2012. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
- ^ Ehren, Christine; Simonson, Robert; Lefkowitz, David (27 December 2000). "Lansbury Lauded, Blast! Blares at Kennedy Center Honors on CBS, Dec. 27". Playbill. Archived from the original on 9 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
- ^ Simonson, Robert (May 6, 2000). "Cronkite, Bacall & Sondheim Pay Tribute to Lansbury at New Dramatists, May 16". Playbill.com. Archived from the original on December 29, 2008. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
- ^ "Angela Lansbury To Receive Acting Company's Lifetime Achievement Award". Playbill. October 28, 2002. Archived from the original on December 29, 2008. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
- ^ "Awards, 2003" Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine bafta.org, accessed April 13, 2015
- ^ Allen, Morgan (November 1, 2004). "Photo Call: Depp and Lansbury Honored by Actors' Fund at October 30 Gala". Playbill.com. Archived from the original on December 29, 2008. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
- ^ "Award-Winning Actress Angela Lansbury Addresses Theatre Arts Students". University of Miami. May 8, 2008. Archived from the original on November 15, 2009. Retrieved October 23, 2009.
- ^ Gans, Andrew. "75th Annual Drama League Award Nominees Announced" Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine playbill.com, April 21, 2009
- ^ Ross, Blake (February 9, 2010). "About Last Night: Celebrating Angela Lansbury, With Zeta-Jones, Cariou, Garber, Peters and More" Archived 2010-02-12 at the Wayback Machine. Playbill; accessed March 17, 2014.
- ^ Jones, Kenneth (April 12, 2010). "Garber, Mazzie, Danieley and More Celebrate Lansbury in DC Gala April 12" Archived 2014-03-17 at the Wayback Machine. Playbill; accessed March 17, 2014.
- ^ Gans, Andrew (June 13, 2010). "Angela Lansbury Named First Honorary Chairman of American Theatre Wing" Archived 2018-01-09 at the Wayback Machine. Playbill; accessed January 9, 2018.
- ^ The Guardian: 2014 New Years Honours List Archived 2014-01-11 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved December 31, 2013.
- ^ Paulson, Michael (May 23, 2022). "Angela Lansbury Will Receive Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 23, 2022. Retrieved May 23, 2022.
- ^ Harris, Michael (February 18, 1999). Angela Lansbury profile Archived 2015-10-20 at the Wayback Machine, Los Angeles Times; retrieved April 23, 2010.
- ^ "Angela Lansbury Returns to West End in Tony Winning Performance". Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Retrieved February 5, 2014.
- ^ "Hall of Fame Honorees" Archived 2016-05-01 at the Wayback Machine emmys.com, accessed April 13, 2015
Further reading edit
- "Angela Lansbury Broadway Credits". Playbill Vault. Retrieved October 26, 2015.