List of awards and nominations received by Alan Bennett

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Alan Bennett awards and nominations
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Award
Wins
Nominations
Academy Awards
01
BAFTA Awards
414
Tony Awards
22
Olivier Awards
57

Alan Bennett is an English playwright known for his work film, theatre and television.

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He has received various awards for his work in film, television and theatre. For film he earned an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nomination for The Madness of King George (1994). He also received four British Academy Film Award nominations for A Private Function (1984), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), and The Madness of King George (1994), winning Outstanding British Film for the latter. For his work on television he has received eight British Academy Television Awards nominations for Talking Heads (1989), Screen Two (1992), and Talking Heads 2 winning for the latter, in addition to two Best Entertainment Performance wins in the 1960s.

For his work in theatre he has received four competitive Laurence Olivier Awards for his work on the West End. He won for Single Spies in 1990, Talking Heads in 1992, and The History Boys in 2005. That same year he received the Society of London Theatre Special Award. He has also received two Tony Awards for his work on the Broadway stage. He won a Special Tony Award in 1963 for Beyond The Fringe alongside Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore. He also won Best Play for The History Boys in 2005. He also won a Drama Desk Award, five Evening Standard Theatre Awards, three New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, two London Film Critics Circle Awards, and an Outer Critics Circle Award.

Major associations

Academy Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1994 Best Adapted Screenplay The Madness of King George Nominated [1]

BAFTA Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
British Academy Film Awards
1984 Best Original Screenplay A Private Function Nominated [2]
1987 Best Adapted Screenplay Prick Up Your Ears Nominated [3]
1995 The Madness of King GeorgeNominated [4]
Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film Won
British Academy Television Awards
1967 Best Light Entertainment Performance Won [5]
1968Won
1989 Best Actor Talking Heads: A Chip in the SugarNominated [6]
Best Drama Series Talking Heads: A Cream Cracker under the SetteeNominated
Best Single Drama Talking Heads: A Bed Among the LentilsNominated
Talking Heads: A Lady of LettersNominated
1992 Screen Two: A Question of AttributionWon [7]
Screen Two: 102 Boulevard HaussmannNominated
1999 Talking Heads 2: Waiting for the TelegramNominated [8]
Talking Heads 2: Playing SandwichesNominated

Laurence Olivier Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1990 Best New Comedy Single Spies Won [9]
1992 Best Entertainment Talking Heads Won [10]
Best Actor in a Musical Won
Best New Play The Madness of George III Nominated
2000 The Lady in the Van Nominated [11]
2005 The History Boys Won [12]
Society of London Theatre Special Award Received

Tony Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1963 Special Tony Award Beyond the Fringe
(shared with Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore)
Received [13]
2006 Best Play The History Boys Won [14]

Theatre awards

Critics' Circle Theatre Award

Drama Desk Award

Evening Standard Award

New York Drama Critics Circle

Outer Critics Circle Award

Miscellaneous awards

Bodley Medla

Bollinger Prize

British Book Award

British Comedy Award

GLAAD Award

Hawthornden Prize

JR Ackerley Prize

London Film Critics Circle

Samuel Johnson Prize

References

  1. "67th Academy Awards". Oscars.org . Retrieved April 16, 2022.
  2. "38th British Academy Film Awards". awards.bafta.org . Retrieved April 16, 2022.
  3. "41st British Academy Film Awards". awards.bafta.org . Retrieved April 16, 2022.
  4. "49th British Academy Film Awards". awards.bafta.org . Retrieved April 16, 2022.
  5. "Light Entertainment Performance". Bafta. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
  6. "1989 British Academy Televisio Awards". awards.bafta.org . Retrieved April 16, 2022.
  7. "1992 British Academy Televisio Awards". awards.bafta.org . Retrieved April 16, 2022.
  8. "1999 British Academy Televisio Awards". awards.bafta.org . Retrieved April 16, 2022.
  9. "1990 Laurence Olivier Awards". Officiallondontheatre.com. Retrieved April 16, 2022.
  10. "1992 Laurence Olivier Awards". Officiallondontheatre.com. Retrieved April 16, 2022.
  11. "2000 Laurence Olivier Awards". Officiallondontheatre.com. Retrieved April 16, 2022.
  12. "2005 Laurence Olivier Awards". Officiallondontheatre.com. Retrieved April 16, 2022.
  13. "History Boys celebrates comprehensive Tony triumph". The Guardian. Retrieved April 16, 2022.
  14. "Triumph for Alan Bennett as 'History Boys' wins six Tonys and equals 50-year record". The Independent. Retrieved April 16, 2022.