List of awards and nominations received by Clint Eastwood

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Clint Eastwood awards and nominations
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Eastwood at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival
Totals [a]
Wins74
Nominations146
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.

Clint Eastwood is an American film actor, director, producer, and composer. He also has contributed music to his films, either through performing, writing, or composing. He has appeared mainly in western, action, comedy, and drama films. [1] [2] Over his career, he has received several accolades including four Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Directors Guild of America Awards as well as nominations for two BAFTA Awards, a Grammy Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. He has been honored numerous prizes such as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1996, the Honorary César in 1998, a Honorary Golden Lion in 2000, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2000, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2003, the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award in 2006, the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2008, and the National Medal of Arts in 2009.

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After beginning his acting career primarily with small uncredited film roles and television appearances, his career has spanned more than 60 years in both television and film productions. Eastwood appeared in several television series, most notably appearing on Rawhide . His role in the eight-season series led to his leading roles in the spaghetti western trilogy A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), which weren't released in the United States until 1967/68. [3] Eastwood has played leading roles in 48 films, including the revisionist western Hang 'Em High (1968), the prison drama Escape from Alcatraz (1979), the romance drama The Bridges of Madison County (1995), and the drama Gran Torino (2008). Eastwood's started directing in 1971, and in 1982, his debut as a producer began with two films, the action thriller Firefox (1982) and the musical western Honkytonk Man (1982).

Eastwood directed the biographical musical drama Bird (1988) for which he was first nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. He gained acclaim for directing the revisionist Western Unforgiven (1992) for which he received the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. For the neo-noir mystery thriller Mystic River (2003), he earned Academy Award nominations for Picture and Director and a Golden Globe Award nomination for Director. For the sports drama Million Dollar Baby (2004) he won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director with a nomination for his first Academy Award for Best Actor. The film also earned him a win for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director as well as nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media.

He directed the American World War II drama Flags of Our Fathers (2005), and the Japanese World War II drama Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), the later of which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director. He directed the mystery crime drama Changeling (2008) for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction. He earned critical attention for directing and playing a grumpy widow and Korean War veteran in the drama Gran Torino (2008) for which he also served as the film's composer earning a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. He directed the docudrama sports film Invictus (2009) earning a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director.

After an 8 year absence from the Academy Awards he returned with the biographical war drama American Sniper (2014) for which he was nominated as a producer for the Academy Award for Best Picture. For the film he also received the National Board of Review Award for Best Director as well as a nomination for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film.

History

On August 21, 1984, Eastwood was honored at a ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre to record his hand and footprints in cement. In May 1994, Eastwood was presented with France's medal of Comandeur de L' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. Jeanne Moreau commented, "Its remarkable that a man so important in European cinema has found the time to come here and spend twelve days watching movies with us". [4] :491 The jury included two people Eastwood knew well: Catherine Deneuve, with whom he had an affair back in the mid-1960s, and Lalo Schifrin, who had composed most of the jazz tracks to his Dirty Harry films. [4] :491 Eastwood received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1996 and received an honorary degree from AFI in 2009. Eastwood is one of only two people to have been twice nominated for Best Actor and Best Director for the same film (Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby) the other being Warren Beatty (Heaven Can Wait and Reds). Along with Beatty, Robert Redford, Richard Attenborough, Kevin Costner, and Mel Gibson, he is one of the few directors best known as an actor to win an Academy Award for directing. On February 27, 2005, at age 74, he became one of only three living directors (along with Miloš Forman and Francis Ford Coppola) to have directed two Best Picture winners. He is also, at age 74, the oldest recipient of the Academy Award for Best Director. Eastwood has also directed five actors in Academy Award–winning performances: Gene Hackman in Unforgiven, Tim Robbins and Sean Penn in Mystic River, and Morgan Freeman and Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby.

I will never win an Oscar and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, because I make too much money for those old farts in the Academy. Thirdly, and most importantly, because I don't give a fuck.

Clint Eastwood during the 1970s, 14 Things You Never Knew About Clint Eastwood's 'Unforgiven' [5] [6] :260

Eastwood has received numerous other awards, including a Kennedy Center Honors in 2000. He received an honorary degree from University of the Pacific in 2006, and an honorary degree from University of Southern California in 2007. In 1995 he received the honorary Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in film producing. [7] In 2006, he received a nomination for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for Million Dollar Baby. In 2007, Eastwood was the first recipient of the Jack Valenti Humanitarian Award, an annual award presented by the MPAA to individuals in the motion picture industry whose work has reached out positively and respectfully to the world. He received the award for his work on the 2006 films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima.

On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Eastwood into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts. In early 2007, Eastwood was presented with the highest civilian distinction in France, Légion d'honneur, at a ceremony in Paris. French President Jacques Chirac told Eastwood that he embodied "the best of Hollywood". [8] On November 13, 2009, Clint Eastwood was made French Legion of Honor Commander, which represents the third highest of five classes associated with this award.

Eastwood receiving an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Southern California in 2007 Eastwood received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Southern California.jpg
Eastwood receiving an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Southern California in 2007

On May 27, 2007, Eastwood received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Southern California. On September 22, 2007, Eastwood was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the Berklee College of Music at the Monterey Jazz Festival, on which he serves as an active board member. Upon receiving the award he gave a speech, claiming, "It's one of the great honors I'll cherish in this lifetime." [9] Eastwood received the 2008 Best Actor award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures for his performance in Gran Torino. [10] On April 29, 2009, the Japanese government announced that Eastwood was to receive the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, which represents the third highest of eight classes associated with this award. [11]

In October 2009, he was honored by the Lumière Award (in honor of the Lumière Brothers, inventors of the Cinematography) during the first edition of the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, France. This award honors his entire career and his major contribution to the 7th Art. In February 2010, Eastwood was recognized by President Barack Obama with an arts and humanities award. Obama called Eastwood's films "essays in individuality, hard truths and the essence of what it means to be American." [12]

Eastwood does not have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [13]

Major associations

Academy Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1993 Best Picture Unforgiven Won [14]
Best Director Won [15]
Best Actor Nominated [16]
2004 Best Picture Mystic River Nominated [17]
Best DirectorNominated [17]
2005 Best Picture Million Dollar Baby Won [18]
Best DirectorWon [18]
Best ActorNominated [19]
2007 Best Picture Letters from Iwo Jima Nominated [20]
Best DirectorNominated [20]
2015 Best Picture American Sniper Nominated [21]

BAFTA Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
British Academy Film Awards
1993 Best Film Unforgiven Nominated [22]
Best Direction Nominated [22]
2009 Best Direction Changeling Nominated [23]
BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards
2006Stanley Kubrick Excellence in Film AwardHonored [22]

Critics' Choice Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
Critics' Choice Movie Awards
2004 Best Composer Mystic River Nominated [24]
Best Director Nominated
2005 Best Director Million Dollar Baby Nominated [25]
Best Picture Nominated [25]
2007 Best Director Letters from Iwo Jima Nominated [26]
2008 Best Composer Grace Is Gone Nominated [27]
2009 Best Actor Gran Torino Nominated [28]
Best Composer Changeling Nominated

Golden Globe Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1971Henrietta AwardN/AWon [29]
1989 Best Director – Motion Picture Bird Won [29]
1993 Best Director – Motion Picture Unforgiven Won [29]
2004 Best Director – Motion Picture Mystic River Nominated [29]
2005 Best Original Score – Motion Picture Million Dollar Baby Nominated [29]
Best Director – Motion PictureWon
2007 Best Director – Motion Picture Flags of Our Fathers Nominated [29]
Best Foreign Language Film Letters from Iwo Jima Won
Best Director – Motion PictureNominated
2008 Best Original Score – Motion Picture Grace Is Gone Nominated [29]
Best Original Song – Motion Picture Nominated
2009 Best Original Song – Motion Picture Changeling Nominated [29]
Best Original Song – Motion Picture Gran Torino Nominated
2010 Best Director – Motion Picture Invictus Nominated [29]

Grammy Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2006 Best Score Soundtrack Album Visual Media Million Dollar Baby Nominated [30]

Screen Actors Guild Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2003 Life Achievement Award Honored [31]
2005 Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture Million Dollar Baby Nominated [32]

Miscellaneous awards

OrganizationsYearCategoryWorkResultRef.
Amanda Awards 2007Best Foreign Feature FilmFlags of Our FatherNominated
Australian Film Institute 2004Best Foreign Film Mystic River Nominated
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 2001Favorite Action Team Space Cowboys Nominated
Blue Ribbon Awards 1996Best Foreign Language FilmThe Bridges of Madison CountyWon
2004 Mystic River Won
2005 Million Dollar Baby Won
Bodil Awards 2004Best American Film Mystic River Nominated
2007Letters from Iwo JimaWon
Cannes Film Festival 1985 Palme d'Or Pale RiderNominated [33]
1988BirdNominated
1990White Hunter Black HeartNominated
2003Mystic RiverNominated
Golden CoachWon
2008 Palme d'Or ChangelingNominated
2009 Honorary Palme d'Or Won
César Awards 1989Best Foreign FilmBirdNominated
1996The Bridges of Madison CountyNominated
2004Mystic RiverWon
2005Million Dollar BabyWon
2009Gran TorinoWon
2010InvictusNominated
Cinema for Peace 2007Most Valuable Film of the YearFlags of our FathersWon [34]
2007Letters from Iwo JimaWon
David di Donatello Awards 2004Best Foreign FilmMystic RiverNominated
2005Million Dollar BabyWon
2007Letters from Iwo JimaNominated
2009Gran TorinoWon
Directors Guild of America Awards 1993Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion PicturesUnforgivenWon
2004Mystic RiverNominated
2005Million Dollar BabyWon
2015American SniperNominated
Directors Guild of Great Britain Awards 2005Outstanding Directorial Achievement in International FilmMillion Dollar BabyNominated
European Film Awards 2004European Film AwardMystic RiverNominated
Hochi Film Awards 1993Best Foreign Language FilmUnforgivenWon
2006Flags of Our FathersWon
Nastro d'Argento2005Best Director – Foreign FilmMillion Dollar BabyWon
Japan Academy Prize 1994 Foreign Film UnforgivenNominated
1996Bridges of Madison CountyNominated
2004Mystic RiverNominated
2006Million Dollar BabyWon
2007Flags of Our FathersWon
2008Letters from Iwo JimaWon
2010Gran TorinoWon
2011InvictusNominated
2015Jersey BoysNominated
2016American SniperWon
Kinema Junpo Awards 1994Best Foreign Language FilmUnforgivenWon
1996Best Foreign Language Film DirectorThe Bridges of Madison CountyWon
2001Best Foreign Language FilmSpace CowboysWon
2005Mystic RiverWon
Readers' Choice AwardWon
2006Best Foreign Language FilmMillion Dollar BabyWon
Best Foreign Language Film DirectorWon
Readers' Choice AwardWon
2007Best Foreign Language FilmFlags of Our FathersWon
Best Foreign Language Film DirectorWon
Readers' Choice AwardWon
Mainichi Film Awards 1994Best Foreign Language FilmUnforgivenWon
1996Readers' Choice AwardThe Bridges of Madison CountyWon
2001Mainichi Film ConcoursSpace CowboysWon
2005Mystic RiverWon
National Board of Review 2008Best ActorGran TorinoWon
People's Choice Awards 1981Favorite Motion Picture ActorHimselfWon
1984Won
1985Won
1987Won
1988Favorite All-Time Motion Picture StarWon
Producers Guild Awards 2004Motion Picture Producer of the Year AwardMystic RiverNominated
Robert Awards 2004Best American FilmMystic RiverNominated
2006Million Dollar BabyWon
Satellite Awards 2004 Best Director Mystic RiverNominated
2006 Best Original Score Flags of Our FathersNominated
Best DirectorWon
2007 Best Original Song Grace Is GoneWon
Saturn Awards 2001 Best Actor Space CowboysNominated [33]
Best Director Nominated
2009ChangelingNominated
Best Music Nominated
Western Heritage Awards 1961Fictional Television DramaRawhideWon
1962Won
1964Won
1993Theatrical Motion PictureUnforgivenWon

Critics awards

OrganizationsYearCategoryWorkResultRef.
Argentine Film Critics Association 2004Best Foreign Feature FilmMystic RiverNominated
2008Letters from Iwo JimaNominated
Chicago Film Critics Association 2003Best DirectorMystic RiverNominated
2004Million Dollar BabyWon
2006Letters from Iwo JimaNominated
2008Best ActorGran TorinoNominated
Film Critics Circle of Australia 2005Best Foreign FilmMillion Dollar BabyWon
London Film Critics' Circle 2004Director of the YearMystic RiverWon
Los Angeles Film Critics Association 1992Best ActorUnforgivenWon [35]
Best DirectorWon
National Society of Film Critics 1993Best Director Unforgiven Won [35]
2004 Mystic River Won
New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2003Best Director Million Dollar Baby Won
Online Film Critics Society 2004Best DirectorMystic RiverNominated
2005Million Dollar BabyNominated
San Diego Film Critics Society 2004Best DirectorMillion Dollar BabyWon
Best Original ScoreWon
2006Best DirectorLetters from Iwo JimaWon
Vancouver Film Critics Circle 2005 Best Director Million Dollar BabyWon
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association 2003Best DirectorMystic RiverNominated
2009 Invictus Nominated

Honorary awards

OrganizationsYearNotesResultRef.
American Academy of Achievement 1980Golden Plate AwardHonored [36]
Hollywood Foreign Press Association 1988 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award Honored [37]
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 1995 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Honored [33]
American Film Institute 1996 AFI Life Achievement Award Honored [35]
Film Society of Lincoln Center 1996Chaplin Gala TributeHonored [35]
César Awards 1998 Honorary César Honored [33]
Producers Guild of America 1998Lifetime Achievement Award in Motion PicturesHonored [35]
National Board of Review 1999Career Achievement AwardHonored [35]
Venice Film Festival 2000 Career Golden Lion Honored [35]
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 2000 Kennedy Center Honors Honored [38]
Art Directors Guild 2001Contribution to Cinematic Imagery AwardHonored [35]
San Francisco Film Festival 2001 Akira Kurosawa AwardHonored [35]
Chicago International Film Festival 2002Career Achievement AwardHonored [35]
BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards 2006 Stanley Kubrick Excellence in Film AwardHonored [22]
Directors Guild of America 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award Honored [39]
Producers Guild of America 2006 Milestone Award Honored [40]
Cannes Film Festival 2008 Honorary Palme d'Or Honored [41]
National Endowment for the Arts 2009 National Medal of Arts Honored [42]
Navy SEAL Foundation 2015Patriot AwardHonored [43]

Directed Academy Award Performances

Under Eastwood's direction, these actors received Academy Award nominations and wins for their performances in these respective roles.

YearPerformerFilmResult
Academy Award for Best Actor
1993 Himself Unforgiven Nominated
2004 Sean Penn Mystic River Won
2005 Himself Million Dollar Baby Nominated
2010 Morgan Freeman Invictus Nominated
2015 Bradley Cooper American Sniper Nominated
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1993 Gene Hackman UnforgivenWon
2004 Tim Robbins Mystic RiverWon
2005 Morgan FreemanMillion Dollar BabyWon
2010 Matt Damon InvictusNominated
Academy Award for Best Actress
1996 Meryl Streep The Bridges of Madison County Nominated
2005 Hilary Swank Million Dollar BabyWon
2009 Angelina Jolie Changeling Nominated
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
2004 Marcia Gay Harden Mystic RiverNominated
2020 Kathy Bates Richard Jewell Nominated

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