List of awards and nominations received by Tom Stoppard
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Sir Tom Stoppard (1937 – 2025) was a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. He received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, three Laurence Olivier Awards, and five Tony Awards as well as nominations for five BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1978 and a Knight Bachelor in 1997 by Queen Elizabeth II.
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As a playwright, he was honored on both Broadway and the West End stage. For the former, he won the five Tony Awards for Best Play for the absurdist tragicomedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1968), the comedy Travesties (1976), the romance drama The Real Thing (1984), the epic trilogy The Coast of Utopia (2007), and the Holocaust drama Leopoldstadt (2023). For the later, he won three Laurence Olivier Awards, two for Best New Play for epic Arcadia (1994) and Leopoldstadt (2020) and one for Best New Comedy Play for Heroes (2006).
Stoppard wrote numerous screenplays for film. He gained acclaim for co-writing the Terry Gilliam-directed dystopian science fiction black comedy Brazil (1985) for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He wrote the Steven Spielberg coming-of-age war drama epic Empire of the Sun (1987) for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. For his film adaptation of his own play, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990), he won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival.
He gained widespread acclaim for co-writing the John Madden directed period romantic drama Shakespeare in Love (1997) for which he earned the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival as well as a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay. He wrote the film adaptation of Anna Karenina (2012) earning a BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film nomination. On television, he wrote the BBC Two limited series Parade's End (2013) for which he was nominated for two British Academy Television Awards (for Best Miniseries and Best Writer – Drama Series) and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Stoppard was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1972, received the Shakespeare Prize in 1979, was inducted in the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1999, received the Writers Guild of America Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement in 2013, and the David Cohen Prize in 2017. Stoppard also received Honorary degrees from Yale University in 2000, the University of Cambridge in 2000, and the University of Oxford in 2013. He was named Honorary Patronage of the University Philosophical Society at Trinity College Dublin in 2009.
Major associations
Academy Awards
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Best Original Screenplay | Brazil | Nominated | [1] |
| 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | Won | [2] | |
BAFTA Awards
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Academy Film Award | ||||
| 1987 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Empire of the Sun | Nominated | [3] |
| 1998 | Best Original Screenplay | Shakespeare in Love | Nominated | [4] |
| 2012 | Outstanding British Film | Anna Karenina | Nominated | [5] |
| British Academy Television Award | ||||
| 2013 | Best Miniseries | Parade's End | Nominated | [6] |
| Best Writer - Drama Series | Nominated | |||
Critics' Choice Awards
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | ||||
| 1998 | Best Screenplay | Shakespeare in Love | Won | [7] |
Emmy Award
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primetime Emmy Awards | ||||
| 2013 | Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special | Parade's End | Nominated | [8] |
Golden Globe Awards
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Best Screenplay | Shakespeare in Love | Won | [9] |
Laurence Olivier Awards
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Best New Play | Night and Day | Nominated | [10] |
| Undiscovered Country | Nominated | |||
| 1981 | Best New Comedy | On the Razzle | Nominated | [11] |
| 1994 | Best New Play | Arcadia | Won | [12] |
| 2003 | The Coast of Utopia | Nominated | [13] | |
| 2006 | Best New Comedy | Heroes | Won | [14] |
| 2007 | Best New Play | Rock 'n' Roll | Nominated | [15] |
| 2020 | Leopoldstadt | Won | [16] | |
Tony Awards
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Best Play | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Won | [17] |
| 1976 | Travesties | Won | [18] | |
| 1984 | The Real Thing | Won | [19] | |
| 1995 | Arcadia | Nominated | [20] | |
| 2001 | The Invention of Love | Nominated | [21] | |
| 2007 | The Coast of Utopia | Won | [22] | |
| 2008 | Rock 'n' Roll | Nominated | [23] | |
| 2023 | Leopoldstadt | Won | [24] | |
Miscellaneous awards
| Organizations | Year | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin International Film Festival | 1999 | Silver Bear | Shakespeare in Love | Won | [25] |
| Drama Desk Award | 1995 | Outstanding Play | Arcadia | Nominated | [26] |
| 2001 | The Invention of Love | Nominated | |||
| 2007 | The Coast of Utopia | Won | |||
| 2008 | Rock 'n' Roll | Nominated | |||
| 2023 | Leopoldstadt | Won | |||
| Evening Standard Award | 1967 | Most Promising Playwright (UK) | Tom Stoppard | Won | |
| 1974 | Best Comedy of the Year (UK) | Travesties | Won | ||
| 1978 | Best Play (UK) | Night and Day | Won | ||
| 1982 | Best Play (UK) | The Real Thing | Won | ||
| 1993 | Best Play of the Year (UK) | Arcadia | Won | ||
| 1997 | Best Play (UK) | The Invention of Love | Won | ||
| John Whiting Award | 1967 | New & Distinctive Dramatic Writing | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead | Won | |
| London Theatre Critics Award | 1967 | Best New Play (UK) | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Won | |
| 1972 | Best New Play (UK) | Jumpers | Won | ||
| New York Drama Critics' Circle | 1968 | Best Play | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Won | [27] |
| 1976 | Travesties | Won | |||
| 1984 | The Real Thing | Won | |||
| 1995 | Arcadia | Won | |||
| 2001 | The Invention of Love | Won | |||
| 2007 | The Coast of Utopia | Won | |||
| 2023 | Best Foreign Play | Leopoldstadt | Won | ||
| Prix Italia | 1968 | Best Play | Albert's Bridge – (Italy) | Won | [28] |
| Venice International Film Festival | 1990 | Golden Lion | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead | Won | [29] |
Honorary awards

| Organizations | Year | Award | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Society of Literature | 1972 | Elected as a Fellow | Honored | [30] |
| Queen Elizabeth II | 1978 | Commander of the Order of the British Empire | Honored | [31] |
| Alfred Toepfer Foundation | 1979 | Shakespeare Prize | Honored | |
| Queen Elizabeth II | 1997 | Knight Bachelor | Honored | [32] |
| American Theater Hall of Fame | 1999 | Induction | Honored | [33] |
| Queen Elizabeth II | 2000 | Order of Merit | Honored | [34] |
| The London Library | 2002 | Named President of the Institution | Honored | |
| The Critics' Circle | 2008 | Distinguished Service to the Arts Award | Honored | |
| PEN Pinter Prize | 2013 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Honored | |
| Writers Guild of America | 2013 | Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement | Honored | |
| PEN/Allen Foundation | 2015 | Literary Service Award | Honored | [35] |
| British Academy | 2017 | Honorary Fellow | Honored | |
| America Award in Literature | 2017 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Honored | [36] |
| Arts Council England | 2017 | David Cohen Prize | Honored | [37] |
Honorary degrees
| Organizations | Year | Award | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yale University | 2000 | Honorary Doctor of Letters | Honored | |
| University of Cambridge | 2000 | Honorary Doctor of Letters | Honored | |
| Trinity College Dublin | 2009 | Patronage of the University Philosophical Society | Honored | |
| University of Oxford | 2013 | Honorary Doctor of Letters | Honored | |