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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.

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Academy Awards

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1985 Best Original Screenplay Brazil Nominated [1]
1998 Shakespeare in Love Won [2]
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BAFTA Awards

Critics' Choice Awards

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Critics' Choice Movie Awards
1998 Best Screenplay Shakespeare in Love Won [7]
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Emmy Award

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Golden Globe Awards

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1998 Best Screenplay Shakespeare in Love Won [9]
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Laurence Olivier Awards

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Tony Awards

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Miscellaneous awards

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Berlin International Film Festival 1999 Silver Bear Shakespeare in Love Won [25]
Drama Desk Award 1995 Outstanding Play Arcadia Nominated [26]
2001The Invention of LoveNominated
2007The Coast of UtopiaWon
2008Rock 'n' RollNominated
2023LeopoldstadtWon
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]
1976TravestiesWon
1984The Real ThingWon
1995ArcadiaWon
2001The Invention of LoveWon
2007The Coast of UtopiaWon
2023Best Foreign PlayLeopoldstadtWon
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]
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Honorary awards

Insignia of Knight Bachelor
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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]
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Honorary degrees

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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
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