List of awards and nominations received by Tony Kushner

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Wins

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Wins11

Nominations68

Tony Kushner awards and nominations

Kushner in 2010
Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 0 4 BAFTA Awards 0 2 Emmy Awards 1 1 Golden Globes 0 2 Grammy Awards 0 1 Olivier Awards 1 3 Tony Awards 2 4
Totals[a]
Wins	11
Nominations	68
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.

Tony Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. Kushner is known for his stage work on Broadway and his film collaborations with Steven Spielberg. He has received several accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, and two Tony Awards as well as nominations for four Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Grammy Award. Kushner is also the recipient of various honorary awards including the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013.^[1]

Kushner has been lauded for his work on stage, most notably known for his seminal work, the two-part American epic play Angels in America, about the AIDs crisis in New York City during the 1980s. The play's first part, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches debuted on Broadway in 1993 and its second part Angels in America: Perestroika debuted in 1994. Both parts earned individual consecutive Tony Awards for Best Play and Kushner earned the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play also ran in London's West End earning nominations for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. Kushner adapted his play Angels in America for television, into a HBO six part limited series of the same name directed by Mike Nichols in 2003 earning the Humanitas Prize, the Primetime Emmy Award, the Writers Guild Award of America.

Kushner also wrote the book for the musical Caroline, or Change which made its Broadway debut in 2004 earning two Tony Award nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score. The musical ran in London earning the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical in 2007. Kushner was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards.

On film, Kushner has collaborated with director Steven Spielberg, writing four of his films. Their first collaboration was the historical action drama Munich which he co–wrote with Eric Roth. The two earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay. Kushner then adapted the Doris Kearns Goodwin historical novel Team of Rivals into the Spielberg historical drama Lincoln (2012), earning the Paul Selvin Award and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as well as nominations for the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Writers Guild of America for Best Screenplay.

Kushner earned acclaim for adapted the 1961 musical West Side Story for Spielberg into the 2021 musical of the same name earning nominations for the Critics' Choice Award and the Writers Guild of America Award. Kushner served as a producer on the Spielberg's semi-autographical coming-of-age film The Fabelmans (2022) for which they were nominated for the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award and Critics' Choice Movie Award for their screenplay. The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama.