List of awards and nominations received by John Lithgow

John Lithgow awards and nominations

Award Wins Nominations Totals Academy Awards 0 2 American Comedy Awards 1 1 British Academy Television Awards 0 1 Critics' Choice Television Awards 1 1 Drama Desk Awards 1 2 Golden Globes Awards 2 6 Grammy Awards 0 4 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1 2 New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1 2 People's Choice Awards 0 4 Primetime Emmy Awards 6 12 Satellite Awards 2 3 Saturn Awards 1 4 Screen Actors Guild Awards 2 9 TCA Awards 0 2 Tony Awards 2 6 Viewers for Quality Television Awards 0 4
Awards won	21
Nominations	66

This article is a List of awards and nominations received by John Lithgow.

John Lithgow is an American actor, musician, singer, comedian and author. Over his extensive career with diverse roles on stage and screen he has received numerous accolades including two Tony Awards, six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, an American Comedy Award, four Drama Desk Awards and has also been nominated for two Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards. ^{[1] [2]} Lithgow has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

Lithgow received Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his performances as a transexual ex-football player in the comedy-drama The World According to Garp (1982) and a lonely banker in the family drama Terms of Endearment (1983). He portrayed Roger Ailes in the political drama Bombshell (2019) and prosecutor Peter Leaward in the western crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). For each film, Lithgow along with ensemble received nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

For his roles on television, he has received six Primetime Emmy Awards. He won his first for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series playing lonely man in Amazing Stories (1986), followed by three wins for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his role as Dick Solomon in the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996—2001). He later won for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for playing a serial killer in the crime series Dexter (2010), and for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series playing Winston Churchill in the Netflix historical drama series The Crown (2017).

Lithgow started his career acting in numerous productions at The Public Theatre and off Broadway. He gained acclaim for his extensive work on Broadway, where he has received two Tony Awards. He won his first for Best Featured Actor in a Play for playing a rugby player in The Changing Room (1973), and Best Actor in a Musical playing newspaper columnist J.J. Hunsecker in Sweet Smell of Success (2002). Lithgow was also Tony-nominated for his roles in Requiem for a Heavyweight (1985), M. Butterfly (1988), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005), and The Columnist (2012).

Major associations

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1982	Best Supporting Actor	The World According to Garp	Nominated	[3]
1983		Terms of Endearment	Nominated	[4]

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
British Academy Television Awards
2017	Best Supporting Actor	The Crown	Nominated	[5]

Critics' Choice Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Critics' Choice Television Awards
2016	Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	The Crown	Won	[6]
2021	Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	Perry Mason	Nominated	[7]
2023	Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	The Old Man	Nominated	[8]

Emmy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Primetime Emmy Awards
1984	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie	The Day After	Nominated	[9]
1986	Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series	Amazing Stories (episode: "The Doll")	Won	[10]
	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie	Resting Place	Nominated
1995		My Brother's Keeper	Nominated	[11]
1996	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series	3rd Rock from the Sun (episode: "Dick, Smoker")	Won	[12]
1997		3rd Rock from the Sun (episode: "See Dick Continue to Run")	Won	[13]
1998		3rd Rock from the Sun (episode: "Stuck with Dick")	Nominated	[14]
1999		3rd Rock from the Sun (episode: "What's Love Got to Do with Dick?")	Won	[15]
2000		3rd Rock from the Sun (episode: ""Frankie Goes to Rutherford")	Nominated	[16]
2001		3rd Rock from the Sun (episode: "Red, White, and Dick")	Nominated	[17]
2010	Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series	Dexter (episode: "Road Kill")	Won	[18]
2017	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	The Crown (episode: "Assassins")	Won	[19]
2021		Perry Mason (episode: "Chapter 4")	Nominated	[20]

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1997	Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy	3rd Rock from the Sun	Won	[21]
1998			Nominated	[21]
1999			Nominated	[21]
2010	Best Supporting Actor – Television	Dexter	Won	[21]
2017		The Crown	Nominated	[21]
2023	Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series	The Old Man	Nominated	[21]

Grammy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2002	Best Spoken Word Album for Children	Ogden Nash's the Christmas that Almost Wasn't	Nominated	[22]
2004	Best Spoken Word Album	The World According to Mr. Rogers	Nominated	[23]
	Best Spoken Word Album for Children	Carnival of the Animals	Nominated
2006	Best Musical Album for Children	The Sunny Side of the Street	Nominated	[24]

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1996	Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series	3rd Rock from the Sun	Won	[25]
	Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series		Nominated
1997	Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series		Won	[26]
	Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series		Nominated
1999			Nominated	[27]
2000	Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film	Don Quixote	Nominated	[28]
2009	Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series	Dexter	Nominated	[29]
2016	Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series	The Crown	Won	[30]
	Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series		Nominated
2019	Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture	Bombshell	Nominated	[31]
2023	Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture	Killers of the Flower Moon	Nominated	[32]

Tony Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1973	Best Featured Actor in a Play	The Changing Room	Won	[33]
1985	Best Actor in a Play	Requiem for a Heavyweight	Nominated	[34]
1988		M. Butterfly	Nominated	[35]
2002	Best Actor in a Musical	Sweet Smell of Success	Won	[36]
2005		Dirty Rotten Scoundrels	Nominated	[37]
2012	Best Actor in a Play	The Columnist	Nominated	[38]

Theatre awards

Organizations	Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
Drama Desk Awards	1973	Outstanding Performance	The Changing Room	Won
	1985	Outstanding Actor in a Play	Requiem for a Heavyweight	Won
	1988		M. Butterfly	Nominated
	2002	Outstanding Actor in a Musical	Sweet Smell of Success	Won
	2004	Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play	Mrs. Farnsworth	Nominated
Outer Critics Circle	2002	Best Actor in a Musical	Sweet Smell of Success	Won
	2018	Outstanding Solo Performance	John Lithgow: Stories by Heart	Nominated

Critics awards

Organizations	Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
New York Film Critics Circle	1982	Best Supporting Actor	The World According to Garp	Won
	1983		Terms of Endearment / Twilight Zone: The Movie	Nominated
Los Angeles Film Critics Association	1982	Best Supporting Actor	The World According to Garp	Won
	1983		Terms of Endearment / Twilight Zone: The Movie	Nominated

Miscellaneous awards

Organizations	Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
AACTA Awards	2020	Best International Supporting Actor – Cinema	Bombshell	Nominated	[39]
People's Choice Awards	1996	Favorite Male Television Performer	3rd Rock from the Sun	Nominated
	1997			Nominated
	1998			Nominated
	1999			Nominated
Satellite Awards	1997	Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy	3rd Rock from the Sun	Won
	1998			Nominated
	2009	Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Dexter	Won
Saturn Awards	1984	Best Supporting Actor	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Won
	1985	Best Supporting Actor	The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai	Nominated
	1993	Best Actor	Raising Cain	Nominated
	2010	Best Guest Starring Role on Television	Dexter	Nominated
	2019	Best Supporting Actor	Pet Sematary	Nominated

Honorary awards

Organizations	Year	Award	Result	Ref.
Hollywood Walk of Fame	2001	Inductee	Honored	[40]
American Theater Hall of Fame	2005	Inductee	Honored	[41]
Harvard University	2005	Honorary Doctorate	Honored	[42]
American Academy of Arts and Sciences	2010	Fellow	Honored	[43]
Harvard University	2017	Harvard Arts Medal	Honored	[44]

References

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24. "49th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards . Retrieved July 21, 2024.
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28. "7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards". Screen Actors Guild Awards . Retrieved July 21, 2024.
29. "16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards". Screen Actors Guild Awards . Retrieved July 21, 2024.
30. "23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards". Screen Actors Guild Awards . Retrieved July 21, 2024.
31. "26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards". Screen Actors Guild Awards . Retrieved July 21, 2024.
32. "30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards". Screen Actors Guild Awards . Retrieved July 21, 2024.
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38. "2012 Tony Award Nominations". American Theater Wing . Retrieved July 21, 2024.
39. Vlessing, Etan (January 3, 2020). "'Parasite' Named Best Picture by Australia's AACTA Awards". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved January 3, 2020.
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42. "Harvard awards 8 honorary degrees". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
43. "John A. Lithgow". AMACAD. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
44. "Harvard Arts Medal Ceremony Honoring Actor JOHN LITHGOW". ofa.fas.harvard.edu.

External links

• John Lithgow at FEARnet
• Profile of John Lithgow – Downstage Center
• 2006 bio article on Lithgow
• Razor and Tie Artist Page
• Razor and Tie Media Page
• TonyAwards.com Interview with John Lithgow
• John Lithgow speaks at the Oxonian Society November 15, 2007 ^[usurped]
• NYPL gallery of selected stage production photographs, 1967-1988