List of awards and nominations received by Jack Lemmon
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Jack Lemmon was American actor of the stage and screen. He has earned numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards. He also earned the Berlin Film Festival's Silver Bear for Best Actor, the Cannes Film Festival's Award for Best Actor and the Venice International Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Actor.
Lemmon played a morale officer in the comedy-drama Mister Roberts (1955) earning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He played a man pretending to be a woman in the comedy film Some Like it Hot (1959), an insurance clerk looking for love in the romance drama The Apartment (1960), and a businessman looking for the remains of his father in Avanti! (1972), all of which earned him three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. For playing a troubled businessman facing a moral and emotional crisis in the drama Save the Tiger (1973) he won the Academy Award for Best Actor as well as nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama.
He was further nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayals of an executive who struggles with alcoholism in the Blake Edwards drama Days of Wine and Roses (1962), a shift supervisor at a nuclear power plant in the James Bridges drama The China Syndrome (1979), a charismatic but self-absorbed Broadway press agent who is terminally ill in the Bob Clark comedy-drama Tribute (1980), and conservative American businessman who travels in search of his missing son in the drama Costa-Gavras Missing (1982).
For his work in television he received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations winning twice for Outstanding Variety Program for Jack Lemmon in 'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gers (1972) and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for playing an elderly man in Tuesdays with Morrie (1999). He was Emmy-nominated for his roles in The Entertainer (1976), The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988), 12 Angry Men (1997), and Inherit the Wind (1999). On the Broadway stage, Lemmon played Scottie Templeton in the Bernard Slade play Tribute (1979), and James Tyrone Sr. in the Eugene O'Neill play Long Day's Journey into Night (1986) earning nominations for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
Over his career Lemmon has received various honors including a Motion Picture Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1990, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1990, and the Berlin International Film Festival's Honorary Golden Bear in 1996. He was also honored with the Kennedy Center Honors at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1996.
Academy Awards
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Best Supporting Actor | Mister Roberts | Won | [1] |
| 1960 | Best Actor | Some Like It Hot | Nominated | [2] |
| 1961 | The Apartment | Nominated | [3] | |
| 1963 | Days of Wine and Roses | Nominated | [4] | |
| 1974 | Save the Tiger | Won | [5] | |
| 1980 | The China Syndrome | Nominated | [6] | |
| 1981 | Tribute | Nominated | [7] | |
| 1983 | Missing | Nominated | [8] | |
Emmy Awards
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primetime Emmy Awards | ||||
| 1972 | Outstanding Single Program – Variety or Musical | Jack Lemmon in 'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gers | Won | [9] |
| 1976 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series | The Entertainer | Nominated | [10] |
| 1988 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Special | The Murder of Mary Phagan | Nominated | [11] |
| 1998 | 12 Angry Men | Nominated | [12] | |
| 1999 | Inherit the Wind | Nominated | [13] | |
| 2000 | Tuesdays with Morrie | Won | [14] | |
BAFTA Awards
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Best Foreign Actor | Mister Roberts | Nominated | [15] |
| 1960 | Some Like It Hot | Won | [16] | |
| 1961 | The Apartment | Won | [17] | |
| 1964 | Days of Wine and Roses | Nominated | [18] | |
| 1966 | Good Neighbor Sam | Nominated | [19] | |
| How to Murder Your Wife | Nominated | |||
| 1980 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | The China Syndrome | Won | [20] |
| 1983 | Missing | Nominated | [21] | |
Golden Globe Awards
Grammy Award
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album | Harry S Truman: A Journey To Independence | Nominated | [23] |
Screen Actors Guild Awards
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award | Won | ||
| 1997 | Outstanding Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries | 12 Angry Men | Nominated | [24] |
| 1999 | Tuesdays with Morrie | Won | [25] | |
Tony Awards
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Best Leading Actor in a Play | Tribute | Nominated | [26] |
| 1986 | Long Day's Journey into Night | Nominated | [27] | |
Miscellaneous awards
| Organizations | Year | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin International Film Festival | 1981 | Silver Bear for Best Actor | Tribute | Won | [28] |
| 1996 | Honorary Golden Bear | Honored | [29] | ||
| Cannes Film Festival | 1979 | Best Actor | The China Syndrome | Won | [30] |
| 1982 | Missing | Won | [31] | ||
| Online Film & Television Association | 1998 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture or Miniseries | 12 Angry Men | Nominated | [32] |
| 2000 | Tuesdays with Morrie | Won | [33] | ||
| 2002 | OFTA Hall of Fame – Acting | Himself | Won | [34] | |
| Venice Film Festival | 1992 | Volpi Cup for Best Actor | Glengarry Glen Ross | Won | [35] |
| 1993 | Special Volpi Cup for Best Ensemble Cast | Short Cuts | Recipient | [36] | |
Honorary awards
| Organization | Year | Honor | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin International Film Festival | 1996 | Honorary Golden Bear | Honored | [37] |
| Hollywood Foreign Press Association | 1991 | Cecil B. DeMille Award | Honored | |
| Hollywood Walk of Fame | 1960 | Motion Picture – 6357 Hollywood Blvd. | Honored | [38] |
| John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | 1996 | The Kennedy Center Honors | Honored | [39] |
| Screen Actors Guild Awards | 1990 | Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award | Honored | |
See also
References
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- ↑ "PRIZES & HONOURS 1981". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on October 12, 2013. Retrieved June 8, 2014.
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