List of awards and nominations received by Vanessa Redgrave

Dame Vanessa Redgrave awards and nominations
Redgrave at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival
Totals[a]
Wins42
Nominations97
Note
  1. ^ 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.
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The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Vanessa Redgrave

Dame Vanessa Redgrave is an English actress known for her roles on stage and screen. She has won several accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a Tony Award as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award. Redgrave is one of the few actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting having won a competitive Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award.[1] She has been honored with the BFI Fellowship in 1988, the BAFTA Fellowship in 2010 and the Honorary Golden Lion in 2018. In 2022 she made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.[a]

On film, Regrave earned early acclaim and rose to prominence for playing an upper class wife in the British comedy Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) for which she received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress as well as nominations for the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She played Guinevere in the musical fantasy romance Camelot (1967) earning a nomination a Golden Globe Award. She portrayed Isadora Duncan in the biographical drama Isadora (1968) for which she won her second Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress as well as nominations for the Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She played the title role in the historical drama Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) earning nominations for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.

She gained acclaim for her portrayed of a wealthy American who becomes involved in anti-Nazi resistance efforts in Europe during the 1930s in the political drama Julia (1977) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture. She played a spinster during the suffrage movement in the Merchant-Ivory costume drama The Bostonians (1984) earning the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress as well as nominations for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. For her portrayal of Peggy Ramsay in the Stephen Frears directed British film Prick Up Your Ears (1987) she was nominated for a BAFTA Award. She played a quiet and wealthy owner of the titular estate in the Merchant-Ivory film Howards End (1992) earning a nomination for an Academy Award. For playing a terminally ill wife in Little Odessa (1994) she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She played the older Briony in the romantic war drama Atonement (2007) for which she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award.

On television, she gained acclaim for her portrayal of Fania Fénelon in the CBS film Playing for Time (1980) for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie. She played part of a elderly lesbian couple in the HBO film If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) earning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Television Movie. She portrayed Clementine Churchill, the wife of Winston Churchill in the HBO film The Gathering Storm (2002) for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award, British Academy Television Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award.

On stage, she started her career on the West End earning the Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a Revival for playing Miss Tina, a naive niece in the Henry James play The Aspern Papers (1984). She was Olivier-nominated for her roles in A Touch of the Poet (1988), John Gabriel Borkman (1997), and The Inheritance (2019). On Broadway she earned the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play playing Mary Tyrone in the revival of the Eugene O'Neill play Long Day's Journey into Night (2003). She was Tony-nominated for playing Joan Didion in her memoir play The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) and playing a snooty elderly southern woman in the Alfred Uhry play Driving Miss Daisy (2011).

Major associations

Academy Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1966 Best Actress Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment Nominated [2]
1968 Isadora Nominated [3]
1971 Mary, Queen of Scots Nominated [4]
1977 Best Supporting Actress Julia Won [5]
1984 Best Actress The Bostonians Nominated [6]
1992 Best Supporting Actress Howards End Nominated [7]

BAFTA Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
1966 Best British Actress Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment Nominated [8][9]
1987 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Prick Up Your Ears Nominated [8]
2010 BAFTA Fellowship Herself Honoured [8]
British Academy Television Awards
1966 Best Actress[b] Herself Won [9]
2003 Best Actress The Gathering Storm Nominated [8]

Critics' Choice Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
Critics' Choice Movie Awards
2007 Best Supporting Actress Atonement Nominated [10]

Emmy Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1981 Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie Playing for Time Won [11]
1986 Second Serve Nominated [12]
Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie Peter the Great Nominated
1991 Young Catherine Nominated [13]
2000 If These Walls Could Talk 2 Won [14]
2002 Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie The Gathering Storm Nominated [15]

Golden Globe Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1966 Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment Nominated [16]
1967 Camelot Nominated [16]
1968 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Isadora Nominated [16]
1971 Mary, Queen of Scots Nominated [16]
1977 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Julia Won [16]
1984 Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama The Bostonians Nominated [16]
1986 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Second Serve Nominated [16]
1987 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Prick Up Your Ears Nominated [16]
1988 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film A Man for All Seasons Nominated [16]
1995 Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy A Month by the Lake Nominated [16]
1997 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Bella Mafia Nominated [16]
2000 Best Supporting Actress – Television If These Walls Could Talk 2 Won [16]
2002 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film The Gathering Storm Nominated [16]

Grammy Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2002 Best Spoken Word Album for Children Oscar Wilde: The Selfish Giant & The Nightingale And The Rose Nominated [17]

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2000 Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Television Movie If These Walls Could Talk 2 Won [18]
2002 The Gathering Storm Nominated [19]
2007 The Fever[c] Nominated [20]
2013 Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture The Butler Nominated [21]

Laurence Olivier Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1984 Best Actress in a Revival The Aspern Papers Won [22]
1988 A Touch of the Poet Nominated [23]
1997 Best Actress John Gabriel Borkman Nominated [24]
2019 Best Supporting Actress The Inheritance Nominated [25]

Tony Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2003 Best Actress in a Play Long Day's Journey into Night Won [26]
2007 The Year of Magical Thinking Nominated [27]
2011 Driving Miss Daisy Nominated [28]

Miscellaneous awards

Organizations Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
Cannes Film Festival 1966 Best Actress Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment Won
1969 Isadora Won
2017 Golden Camera Sea Sorrow Nominated
Golden Eye Nominated
Venice Film Festival 1994 Volpi Cup for Best Actress Little Odessa Won
2018 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Herself Honoured
David di Donatello 1972 Best International Actress Mary, Queen of Scots Won
Goldene Kamera 1992 Best International Actress Young Catherine / Howards End Won
London Film Critics Circle 2007 Best British Supporting Actress Atonement Won
Los Angeles Film Critics Association 1977 Best Supporting Actress Julia Won
Satellite Awards 2000 Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film If These Walls Could Talk 2 Nominated
2002 The Gathering Storm Nominated
2010 Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Letters to Juliet Nominated
2011 Coriolanus Nominated
National Society of Film Critics 1969 Best Actress Isadora Won
1977 Best Supporting Actress Julia Runner-up
1984 Best Actress The Bostonians Won
1985 Wetherby Won
New York Film Critics Circle 1972 Best Actress Mary, Queen of Scots Runner-up
1977 Best Supporting Actress Julia Runner-up
1987 Best Supporting Actress Prick Up Your Ears Won

Other theatre awards

Organizations Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
Drama Desk Awards 1997 Outstanding Actress in a Play Antony and Cleopatra Nominated
2003 Long Day's Journey into Night Won
2007 Outstanding Solo Performance The Year of Magical Thinking Won
2013 Outstanding Actress in a Play The Revisionist Nominated
Evening Standard Awards 1961 Best Actress As You Like It Won
1979 The Lady from the Sea Won
1985 The Seagull Won
1991 When She Danced Won

Honorary awards

Organization Year Honor Result Ref.
British Film Institute 1988 BFI Fellowship Honoured
Boston Film Festival 1995 Film Excellence Award Honoured
San Sebastian Film Festival 1999 Donostia Award Honoured
GLAAD Media Award 2001 Excellence in Media Award Honoured
Hollywood Film Festival 2002 Capri Legend Award Honoured
American Theatre Hall of Fame 2003 Inductee Honoured
Bratislava International Film Festival 2005 Artistic Excellence Award Honoured
British Academy of Film and Television Arts 2010 BAFTA Fellowship Honoured
Brunel University 2011 Honorary Doctor of Letters Honoured
International Antalya Film Festival 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award Honoured
Evening Standard Theatre Award 2015 Editor's Award Honoured
European Film Academy 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award Honoured [29]
Venice International Film Festival 2018 Honorary Golden Lion Honoured
Queen Elizabeth II 2022 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire[d] Honoured [30]

Notes

  1. ^ She was previously offered the title in 1999 but declined it before accepting in 2022.
  2. ^ The 1966 BAFTA for Best TV Actress honoured all of a performer's work for that year; no specific role was credited.
  3. ^ The film was released in 2004, but Redgrave was nominated for a SAG Award in 2007.
  4. ^ She was previously offered the title in 1999 but declined it before accepting in 2022.

References

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  17. ^ https://www.grammy.com/artists/vanessa-redgrave/5452
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  30. ^ "Vanessa Redgrave to receive lifetime achievement award at Venice Film Festival". Deadline Hollywood. 2018-07-24. Archived from the original on July 24, 2018. Retrieved 2018-09-11.

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