List of awards and nominations received by John Travolta

John Travolta awards and nominations
	Travolta at the 2013 Deauville American Film Festival
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Wins	43
Nominations	90
	Note ↑ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.;

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American actor John Travolta has received numerous accolades throughout his career.

Travolta had a career breakthrough playing young Italian-American Tony Manero living in Brooklyn in Saturday Night Fever (1977), receiving his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The following year, he had another successful film thanks to the role of Danny Zuko in the 1978 musical Grease, earning nominations for a Golden Globe Award and the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for the film's accompanying soundtrack.

After a career downturn in the early 1990s decade, Travolta made a comeback when he played against type as Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's hit Pulp Fiction (1994), for which he received nominations for his second Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He won his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the 1995 gangster comedy film Get Shorty and returned to the musical genre with the 2007 remake of Hairspray, winning the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble.

Travolta portrayed lawyer Robert Shapiro in the television series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016), receiving nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series, while also winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series as an executive producer of the show.

[1] Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

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Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
1978	Saturday Night Fever	Best Actor	Nominated	^[1]
1995	Pulp Fiction	Best Actor	Nominated	^[2]

Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
1995	Pulp Fiction	Best Actor in a Leading Role	Nominated	^[3]
Britannia Awards
1998	N/a	Excellence in Film	Honored	^[4]

Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
1978	Saturday Night Fever	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	Nominated	^[5]
1979	Grease	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	Nominated
1979	N/a	World Film Favorites – Male	Won
1995	Pulp Fiction	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama	Nominated
1996	Get Shorty	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	Won
1999	Primary Colors	Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	Nominated
2008	Hairspray	Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture	Nominated
2017	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film^[a]	Won
2017	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Nominated

Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
2016	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	Outstanding Limited Series^[a]	Won	^[7]
2016	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie	Nominated
2021	Die Hart	Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series	Nominated

Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
1995	Pulp Fiction	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role	Nominated	^[8]
1996	Get Shorty	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture^[c]	Nominated	^[9]
2008	Hairspray	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture^[c]	Nominated	^[10]

List of awards and nominations received by John Travolta

Academy Awards

BAFTA Awards

Golden Globe Awards

Grammy Awards

Primetime Emmy Awards

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Other associations

AARP Movies for Grownups Awards

American Comedy Awards

Black Reel Awards

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards

Critics' Choice Awards

David di Donatello Awards

Golden Apple Awards

Golden Camera Awards

Golden Raspberry Awards

Hasty Pudding Theatricals Awards

Hollywood Film Awards

International Indian Film Academy Awards

MTV Movie & TV Awards

Producers Guild of America Awards

Satellite Awards

Saturn Awards

ShoWest Awards

Stinkers Bad Movie Awards

Critics associations

Film festivals

Notes

References

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Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
2008	Hairspray	Best Grownup Love Story (shared with Christopher Walken)	Won	^[11]
2010	The Taking of Pelham 123	Best Supporting Actor	Nominated	^[12]

Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
1995	Pulp Fiction	Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture – Leading Role	Nominated	^[13]
1996	Get Shorty	Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture – Leading Role	Won	^[14]

Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
1997	Phenomenon	Favorite Actor – Drama	Won	^[16]
1998	Face/Off	Favorite Actor – Action/Adventure	Nominated	^[17]
1999	A Civil Action	Favorite Actor – Drama	Nominated	^[18]
1999	N/a	World Artist Award	Honored	^[19]
2000	The General's Daughter	Favorite Actor – Suspense	Nominated	^[20]

Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
Critics' Choice Movie Awards
2008	Hairspray	Best Acting Ensemble^[c]	Won	^[21]
Critics' Choice Television Awards
2016	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	Best Supporting Actor in a Movie Made for Television or Limited Series	Nominated	^[22]

Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
1978	N/a	Male Star of the Year	Won	^[24]
1998	N/a	Male Star of the Year	Won	^[25]

Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
1984	Staying Alive and Two of a Kind	Worst Actor	Nominated	^[27]
1986	Perfect	Worst Actor	Nominated	^[28]
1990	The Experts, Perfect, Staying Alive and Two of a Kind	Worst Actor of the Decade	Nominated	^[29]
1992	Shout	Worst Supporting Actor	Nominated	^[30]
2001	Battlefield Earth and Lucky Numbers	Worst Actor	Won	^[31]
2001	Battlefield Earth	Worst Screen Couple^[d]	Won	^[31]
2002	Domestic Disturbance and Swordfish	Worst Actor	Nominated	^[32]
2010	Old Dogs	Worst Actor	Nominated	^[33]
2010	Battlefield Earth, Domestic Disturbance, Lucky Numbers, Old Dogs and Swordfish	Worst Actor of the Decade	Nominated	^[33]
2019	Gotti	Worst Actor	Nominated	^[34]
2019	Gotti	Worst Screen Combo (shared with Kelly Preston)	Nominated	^[34]
2020	The Fanatic and Trading Paint	Worst Actor	Won	^[35]
2020	N/a	Worst Screen Combo^[e]	Nominated	^[35]

Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
2004	N/a	Lifetime Achievement Award	Honored	^[37]
2007	Hairspray	Supporting Actor of the Year	Won	^[38]
2007	Hairspray	Ensemble of the Year^[c]	Won	^[38]

Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
1995	Pulp Fiction	Best Male Performance	Nominated	^[40]
		Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Samuel L. Jackson)	Nominated
		Best Dance Sequence (shared with Uma Thurman)	Won
1996	Broken Arrow	Best Villain	Nominated	^[41]
1996	Broken Arrow	Best Fight (shared with Christian Slater)	Nominated	^[41]
1997	Phenomenon	Best Male Performance	Nominated	^[42]
1997	Phenomenon	Best Kiss (shared with Kyra Sedgwick)	Nominated	^[42]
1998	Face/Off	Best Male Performance	Nominated	^[43]
		Best Villain (shared with Nicolas Cage)	Nominated
		Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Nicolas Cage)	Won

Year	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
1978	Moment by Moment	Worst Actor	Nominated	^[48]
1978	Moment by Moment	Worst On-Screen Couple (shared with Lily Tomlin)	Won	^[48]
1997	Mad City	Worst Actor	Nominated	^[49]
2000	Battlefield Earth	Worst Actor	Won	^[50]
		Worst On-Screen Couple^[f]	Won
		Worst On-Screen Hairstyle (shared with Forest Whitaker)	Won
2003	Basic	Most Annoying Fake Accent (Male)	Nominated	^[51]

Year	Nominated work	Association	Category	Result	Ref.
1977	Saturday Night Fever	National Board of Review	Best Actor	Won	^[52]
		National Society of Film Critics	Best Actor	Nominated	^[53]
		New York Film Critics Circle	Best Actor	Nominated	^[54]
1994	Pulp Fiction	Los Angeles Film Critics Association	Best Actor	Won	^[55]
1995		London Film Critics' Circle	Actor of the Year	Won	^[56]
		National Society of Film Critics	Best Actor	Nominated	^[57]
	Get Shorty	New York Film Critics Circle	Best Actor	Nominated	^[58]

Year	Nominated work	Festival	Honor	Result	Ref.
1994	Pulp Fiction	Stockholm International Film Festival	Best Actor	Won	^[59]
1998	N/a	Chicago International Film Festival	Lifetime Achievement Award	Honored	^[60]
1999	N/a	Palm Springs International Film Festival	Desert Palm Achievement Award	Honored	^[61]
2008	Hairspray	Palm Springs International Film Festival	Ensemble Cast Award^[c]	Won	^[62]
2008	N/a	Santa Barbara International Film Festival	Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film	Honored	^[63]
2012		San Sebastián International Film Festival	Donostia Award	Honored	^[64]
2012		Zurich Film Festival	Golden Eye for Lifetime Achievement	Honored	^[65]
2013		Karlovy Vary International Film Festival	Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema	Honored	^[66]