List of awards and nominations received by Orson Welles

Orson Welles was an American film director, actor, writer, and producer who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre. He is considered to be among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. He received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, Peabody Award, and Grammy Award as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award.

He has also received numerous honors including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1975, the British Film Institute Fellowship in 1983, and the Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984. He was inducted into both the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1979, and the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1988. Welles was presented with France's Legion of Honour in 1982.

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1941	Best Director	Citizen Kane	Nominated	^[1]
	Best Actor		Nominated
	Best Original Screenplay		Won
1970	Academy Honorary Award		Received	^[2]

Directed Academy Award performances
Under Welles' direction, these actors have received Academy Award nominations for their performances in their respective roles.


Year	Performer	Film	Result
Academy Award for Best Actor
1941	Himself	Citizen Kane	Nominated
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1942	Agnes Moorehead	The Magnificent Ambersons	Nominated

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1968	Best Foreign Actor	Chimes at Midnight	Nominated	^[3]

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1981	Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture	Butterfly	Nominated	^[4]

Grammy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1971	Best Comedy Album	The Begatting of the President	Nominated
1976	Best Spoken Word Album	Immortal Sherlock Holmes	Nominated
1977		Great American Documents	Nominated	^[5]
1979		Citizen Kane	Nominated	^[6]
1980		Orson Welles & Helen Hayes at Their Best	Nominated
1981		Obediently Yours	Nominated
1982		Donovan's Brain	Won	^[7]
1993		This is Orson Welles	Nominated	^[8]^[9]

Miscellaneous accolades

Cannes Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1952	Palme d'Or	Othello	Won	^[10]
1959	Best Actor	Compulsion	Won
1966	Tribute	Chimes at Midnight	received
1966	C.S.T. Prize	Chimes at Midnight	received
1966	Palme d'Or	Chimes at Midnight	Nominated	^[11]

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1978	Career Achievement Award	Orson Welles	Received	^[12]

National Board of Review

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1942	Best Actor	Citizen Kane	Won	^[13]^[14]

New York Film Critics Circle

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1941	Best Picture	Citizen Kane	Won	^[15]

Venice Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1947	Golden Lion	The Stranger	Won	.^[16]
1970	Golden Lion	Career Achievement	Received	^[17]

Honorary awards

Year	Association	Award	Ref.
1933	Chicago Drama League Prize for Twelfth Night	Recipient	^[18]
1945	Interracial Film and Radio Guild Award for Contributions to Interracial Harmony through Radio	Recipient	^[19]
1938	The New York Drama Study Club Award	Recipient	^[20]
1939	Essex County Symphony Society's Achievement Award	Recipient	^[21]
1958	Peabody Award for The Fountain of Youth	Recipient	^[22]
1972	American Theater Hall of Fame	Inaugural member	^[23]
1975	American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award	Recipient	^[24]
1979	National Association of Broadcasters Broadcasting Hall of Fame	Induction	^[25]
1982	Order of Commander of the Légion d'honneur	Recipient
1983	Académie des Beaux-Arts	Inducted
1983	British Film Institute Fellowship	Recipient	^[26]
1984	Directors Guild of America's D. W. Griffith Award	Recipient	^[27]
1984	The Academy of Magical Arts	Special Fellowship	^[28]^[29]
1985	National Board of Review Career Achievement Award	Recipient	^[30]
1988	National Radio Hall of Fame	Inducted	^[31]

Special recognitions

1958: Although Universal Pictures did its best to prevent Touch of Evil from being selected for the 1958 Brussels World Film Festival—part of the Expo 58 world's fair—the film received its European premiere and Welles was invited to attend. To his astonishment,^[32] Welles collected the two top awards. Touch of Evil received the International Critics Prize, and Welles was recognized for his body of work.^[33]^[34]
1963: He reiceved the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) for The Trial, at the Festival international du film de Valladolid and Best Film" by the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics in 1964.
1998: In 1998 and 2007, the American Film Institute ranked Citizen Kane as the greatest American movie.^[35] These other Welles films were nominated for the AFI list: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, director/producer/screenwriter); The Third Man (1949, actor); Touch of Evil (1958, actor/director/screenwriter); and A Man for All Seasons (1966, actor).^[36]
1999: The American Film Institute acknowledged Welles as one of the top 25 male motion picture stars of Classic Hollywood cinema in its survey, AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars.^[37]
2002: Welles was voted the greatest film director of all time in two British Film Institute polls, of directors and critics.
2002: A highly divergent genus of Hawaiian spiders Orsonwelles was named in his honor.^[38]
2003: A crater on Mars was named in his honor.^[39]
2007: A statue of Welles sculpted by Oja Kodar was installed in the city of Split, Croatia.^[40]
2013: On February 10, 2013, the Woodstock Opera House in Woodstock, Illinois, dedicated its stage to Welles, honoring the site of his American debut as a professional theatre director.^[41]
2015: Throughout 2015, numerous festivals and events observed the 100th anniversary of Welles's birth.^[42]
2017: A survey of critical consensus, best-of lists, and historical retrospectives finds Welles to be the second most acclaimed director of all time (behind Alfred Hitchcock).^[43]

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Filmography Radio credits Theatre credits Discography Awards and nominations Bibliography Unrealized projects
Feature films	Citizen Kane (1941) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) The Stranger (1946) The Lady from Shanghai (1947) Macbeth (1948) Othello (1951) Mr. Arkadin (1955) Touch of Evil (1958) The Trial (1962) Chimes at Midnight (1965) The Immortal Story (1968) F for Fake (1973) Filming Othello (1978) The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
Shorts	Twelfth Night (1933) The Hearts of Age (1934) Citizen Kane trailer (1940) Around the World (1946) The Miracle of St. Anne (1950) Magic Trick (1953) The Dominici Affair (1955) Portrait of Gina (1958) An Evening with Orson Welles (1970) Orson's Bag Vienna (1968) The Merchant of Venice (1969) One Man Band (1968–1971) Moby Dick (1971) Orson Welles' Magic Show (1976–1985) The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh (1984)
Unfinished films	Too Much Johnson (1938) It's All True (1942) Don Quixote (1957–1969) The Heroine (1967) The Deep (1967–1970) Filming 'The Trial' (1981) The Dreamers (1980–1982)
Partly directed	Journey into Fear (1943) Follow the Boys (1944) Black Magic (1949) Three Cases of Murder (1955) David and Goliath (1960) The Southern Star (1969)
Adaptations	Monsieur Verdoux (1947) Treasure Island (1972) Cradle Will Rock (1999) The Big Brass Ring (1999)
Television	Orson Welles' Sketch Book (1955) Around the World with Orson Welles (1955) Orson Welles and People (1956) The Fountain of Youth (1958) In the Land of Don Quixote (1964) The Orson Welles Show (1979)
Theatre	Marching Song (1932) Bright Lucifer Voodoo Macbeth (1936) Horse Eats Hat (1936) The Cradle Will Rock (1937) Caesar (1937–1938) Too Much Johnson (1938) Native Son (1941) The Mercury Wonder Show (1943) Around the World (1946) The Blessed and the Damned (1950) Othello (1951) The Lady in the Ice (1953) Moby Dick—Rehearsed (1955) Rhinoceros (1960)
Radio	Les Misérables (1937) The Shadow (1937–1938) The Mercury Theatre on the Air (1938) "Dracula" (1938) "The War of the Worlds" (1938) The Campbell Playhouse (1938–1940) The Orson Welles Show (1941–1942) Ceiling Unlimited (1942–1943) Hello Americans (1942–1943) The Orson Welles Almanac (1944) This Is My Best (1945) Orson Welles Commentaries (1945–1946) The Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air (1946) The Adventures of Harry Lime (1951–1952) The Black Museum (1951–52)
Spoken-word	The Happy Prince (1946) The Begatting of the President (1970)
Books	This Is Orson Welles (1992) Les Bravades (1996)
Related	Mercury Theatre Rita Hayworth (second wife) Paola Mori (third wife) Beatrice Welles (daughter) Oja Kodar Frozen Peas Orson Welles Paul Masson advertisements It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles (1993) Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014) They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018) A Final Cut for Orson (2018)