List of awards and nominations received by Stephen Sondheim

Award

Wins

Award

Wins

Wins44

Nominations75

Stephen Sondheim awards and nominations

Sondheim circa 1970
Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 1 1 Golden Globe Awards 0 2 Grammy Awards 8 18 Laurence Olivier Awards 5 9 Pulitzer Prize 1 1 Tony Awards 8 12
Totals[a]
Wins	44
Nominations	75
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.

This article is a list of awards and nominations received by Stephen Sondheim.

Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021) was an American composer and lyricist known for his work in musical theatre and film. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, eight Grammy Awards, five Laurence Olivier Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and eight Tony Awards. Sondheim has received several honorary awards including an induction into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1983, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1993, the National Medal of Arts in 1996, a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 2008, and the Society of London Theatre Special Award in 2011, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2015). Theaters were named in his honor on Broadway in 2010 and London's West End in 2019.

Known primarily for his work on the Broadway stage, he started his career as a lyricist for the musicals West Side Story (1957), Gypsy (1959), and Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), the later of which earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Original Score. He wrote A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), his first musical as both a composer and lyricist, followed by Anyone Can Whistle (1964) and Evening Primrose (1965). He earned critical acclaim for his musical Company (1970) earning Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Lyricist of a Musical. He won further Tony Awards for Best Original Score for Follies (1972), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Into the Woods (1986), and Passion (1994). For his musical Sunday in the Park with George (1984) he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

For his work on the West End he won two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best New Musical for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 1980 and Follies in 1987. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical twice for Sunday in the Park with George in 1991 and Merrily We Roll Along in 2001. He was Olivier-nominated for Side by Side by Sondheim in 1976, Into the Woods in 1991, Assassins in 1993, and Passion in 1997. He was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Contribution for Follies in 2018.

On film, he wrote three songs for the Warren Beatty directed crime action film Dick Tracy (1990), "More", What Can You Lose?", and "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)", the later of which earned him the Academy Award for Best Original Song. He was also nominated for two Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Song and two Grammy Awards for Best Song Written for Visual Media. He won six Grammy Awards for Best Musical Theater Album for Company (1971), A Little Night Music (1974), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1980), Sunday in the Park with George (1985), Into the Woods (1989) and Passion (1995). He won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for "Send in the Clowns" (1976).