List of awards and nominations received by Neil Simon

This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Neil Simon.

Neil Simon was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He has received numerous accolades including a Pulitzer Prize, four Tony Awards and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for four Academy Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. He has received several honorary awards such as the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1983, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995 and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006.

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1968	Best Adapted Screenplay	The Odd Couple	Nominated	^[1]
1975	Best Adapted Screenplay	The Sunshine Boys	Nominated	^[1]
1977	Best Original Screenplay	The Goodbye Girl	Nominated	^[1]
1978	Best Adapted Screenplay	California Suite	Nominated	^[1]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1957	Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special	Caesar's Hour	Nominated	^[2]
1958	Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special	Caesar's Hour	Nominated	^[2]
1992	Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Special	Broadway Bound	Nominated	^[2]
2001	Outstanding Television Movie	Laughter on the 23rd Floor	Nominated	^[2]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1963	Best Musical	Little Me	Nominated	^[3]
1964	Best Play	Barefoot in the Park	Nominated	^[3]
1965	Best Play	The Odd Couple	Nominated	^[3]
1965	Best Author	The Odd Couple	Won	^[3]
1968	Best Play	Plaza Suite	Nominated	^[3]
1970		Last of the Red Hot Lovers	Nominated	^[3]
1972		The Prisoner of Second Avenue	Nominated	^[3]
1973		The Sunshine Boys	Nominated	^[3]
1975	Special Tony	—	Won	^[4]
1978	Best Play	Chapter Two	Nominated	^[3]
1979	Best Book of a Musical	They're Playing Our Song	Nominated	^[3]
1985	Best Play	Biloxi Blues	Won	^[3]
1987		Broadway Bound	Nominated	^[3]
1991		Lost in Yonkers	Won	^[3]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1972	Best Screenplay – Motion Picture	The Heartbreak Kid	Nominated	^[5]
1975		The Sunshine Boys	Nominated	^[5]
1977		The Goodbye Girl	Won	^[5]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1965	Best Play	The Odd Couple	Nominated
1983		Brighton Beach Memoirs	Won
1985		Biloxi Blues	Nominated

List of awards and nominations received by Neil Simon

Academy Awards

Emmy Awards

Tony Awards

Golden Globe Awards

Miscellaneous awards

American Comedy Awards

Drama Desk Awards

Evening Standard Theatre Awards

New York Drama Critics' Circle

Outer Critics Circle Award

Writers Guild of America Awards

Honorary accolades

References

External links

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Award	Wins	Nominations
Academy Awards	0	4
Primetime Emmy Award	0	4
Golden Globe Award	1	3
Tony Award	4	14

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1968	Best Written Comedy	Barefoot in the Park	Nominated	^[1]
1969	Best Written Comedy	The Odd Couple	Won	^[1]
1970	Best Original Screenplay	The Out-of-Towners	Won	^[1]
1972	Best Adapted Screenplay	The Heartbreak Kid	Nominated	^[1]
1975		The Prisoner of Second Avenue	Nominated	^[7]
1975		The Sunshine Boys	Won	^[1]
1976	Best Original Screenplay	Murder by Death	Nominated	^[1]
1977	Best Original Screenplay	The Goodbye Girl	Nominated	^[1]
1978	Best Adapted Screenplay	California Suite	Nominated	^[1]
1979	Screen Laurel Award	—	Won	^[6]

v t e Neil Simon
Plays	Come Blow Your Horn (1961) Barefoot in the Park (1963) The Odd Couple (1965) The Star-Spangled Girl (1966) Plaza Suite (1968) Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1969) The Gingerbread Lady (1970) The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1971) The Sunshine Boys (1972) The Good Doctor (1973) God's Favorite (1974) California Suite (1976) Chapter Two (1977) I Ought to Be in Pictures (1980) Fools (1981) The Female Odd Couple (1981) Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983) Biloxi Blues (1985) Broadway Bound (1986) Rumors (1988) Lost in Yonkers (1991) Jake's Women (1992) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (1993) London Suite (1995) Proposals (1997) The Dinner Party (2000) 45 Seconds from Broadway (2001) Oscar and Felix: A New Look at the Odd Couple (2002) Rose's Dilemma (2003)
Musicals	Little Me (1962) Sweet Charity (1966) Promises, Promises (1968) They're Playing Our Song (1979) The Goodbye Girl (1993)
Films	After the Fox (1966) Barefoot in the Park (1967) The Odd Couple (1968) The Out-of-Towners (1970) Plaza Suite (1971) Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972) The Heartbreak Kid (1972) The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) The Sunshine Boys (1975) Murder by Death (1976) The Goodbye Girl (1977) The Cheap Detective (1978) California Suite (1978) Chapter Two (1979) Seems Like Old Times (1980) Only When I Laugh (1981) I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982) Max Dugan Returns (1983) The Lonely Guy (1984) The Slugger's Wife (1985) Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986) Biloxi Blues (1988) The Marrying Man (1991) Broadway Bound (1992) Lost in Yonkers (1993) London Suite (1996) The Sunshine Boys (1996) The Odd Couple II (1998) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (2001) The Goodbye Girl (2004)

v t e Neil Simon's The Odd Couple
Films	The Odd Couple (1968) The Odd Couple II (1998)
Television series	The Odd Couple (1970–1975) (episodes) The Oddball Couple (1975) The New Odd Couple (1982–1983) The Odd Couple (2015–2017) (episodes)
Television films	The Odd Couple Together Again