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Wins | 43 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominations | 90 |
American actor John Travolta has received numerous accolades throughout his career.
Travolta had a career breakthrough playing young Italian-American Tony Manero living in Brooklyn in Saturday Night Fever (1977), receiving his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The following year, he had another successful film thanks to the role of Danny Zuko in the 1978 musical Grease , earning nominations for a Golden Globe Award and the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for the film's accompanying soundtrack.
After a career downturn in the early 1990s decade, Travolta made a comeback when he played against type as Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's hit Pulp Fiction (1994), for which he received nominations for his second Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He won his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the 1995 gangster comedy film Get Shorty and returned to the musical genre with the 2007 remake of Hairspray , winning the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble.
Travolta portrayed lawyer Robert Shapiro in the television series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016), receiving nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series, while also winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series as an executive producer of the show.
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1978 | Saturday Night Fever | Best Actor | Nominated | [1] |
1995 | Pulp Fiction | Nominated | [2] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
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British Academy Film Awards | ||||
1995 | Pulp Fiction | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Nominated | [3] |
Britannia Awards | ||||
1998 | — | Excellence in Film | Honored | [4] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1978 | Saturday Night Fever | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nominated | [5] |
1979 | Grease | Nominated | ||
— | World Film Favorites – Male | Won | ||
1995 | Pulp Fiction | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | Nominated | |
1996 | Get Shorty | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Won | |
1999 | Primary Colors | Nominated | ||
2008 | Hairspray | Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Nominated | |
2017 | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film [b] | Won | |
Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1979 | Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture | Album of the Year [c] | Nominated | [6] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Outstanding Limited Series [b] | Won | [7] |
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie | Nominated | |||
2021 | Die Hart | Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1995 | Pulp Fiction | Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role | Nominated | [8] |
1996 | Get Shorty | Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture [d] | Nominated | [9] |
2008 | Hairspray | Nominated | [10] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2008 | Hairspray | Best Grownup Love Story (shared with Christopher Walken) | Won | [11] |
2010 | The Taking of Pelham 123 | Best Supporting Actor | Nominated | [12] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1995 | Pulp Fiction | Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture – Leading Role | Nominated | [13] |
1996 | Get Shorty | Won | [14] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2017 | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Outstanding Television Movie or Limited Series [b] | Won | [15] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1997 | Phenomenon | Favorite Actor – Drama | Won | [16] |
1998 | Face/Off | Favorite Actor – Action/Adventure | Nominated | [17] |
1999 | A Civil Action | Favorite Actor – Drama | Nominated | [18] |
— | World Artist Award | Honored | [19] | |
2000 | The General's Daughter | Favorite Actor – Suspense | Nominated | [20] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Critics' Choice Movie Awards | ||||
2008 | Hairspray | Best Acting Ensemble [d] | Won | [21] |
Critics' Choice Television Awards | ||||
2016 | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Best Supporting Actor in a Movie Made for Television or Limited Series | Nominated | [22] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1995 | Pulp Fiction | Best Foreign Actor | Won | [23] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1978 | — | Male Star of the Year | Won | [24] |
1998 | Won | [25] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2011 | — | Best International Actor | Won | [26] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1984 | Staying Alive and Two of a Kind | Worst Actor | Nominated | [27] |
1986 | Perfect | Nominated | [28] | |
1990 | The Experts , Perfect , Staying Alive and Two of a Kind | Worst Actor of the Decade | Nominated | [29] |
1992 | Shout | Worst Supporting Actor | Nominated | [30] |
2001 | Battlefield Earth and Lucky Numbers | Worst Actor | Won | [31] |
Battlefield Earth | Worst Screen Couple [e] | Won | ||
2002 | Domestic Disturbance and Swordfish | Worst Actor | Nominated | [32] |
2010 | Old Dogs | Nominated | [33] | |
Battlefield Earth , Domestic Disturbance , Lucky Numbers , Old Dogs and Swordfish | Worst Actor of the Decade | Nominated | ||
2019 | Gotti | Worst Actor | Nominated | [34] |
Worst Screen Combo (shared with Kelly Preston) | Nominated | |||
2020 | The Fanatic and Trading Paint | Worst Actor | Won | [35] |
— | Worst Screen Combo [f] | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1981 | — | Man of the Year | Won | [36] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2004 | — | Lifetime Achievement Award | Honored | [37] |
2007 | Hairspray | Supporting Actor of the Year | Won | [38] |
Ensemble of the Year [d] | Won |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | — | Outstanding Achievement in International Cinema | Honored | [39] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1995 | Pulp Fiction | Best Male Performance | Nominated | [40] |
Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Samuel L. Jackson) | Nominated | |||
Best Dance Sequence (shared with Uma Thurman) | Won | |||
1996 | Broken Arrow | Best Villain | Nominated | [41] |
Best Fight (shared with Christian Slater) | Nominated | |||
1997 | Phenomenon | Best Male Performance | Nominated | [42] |
Best Kiss (shared with Kyra Sedgwick) | Nominated | |||
1998 | Face/Off | Best Male Performance | Nominated | [43] |
Best Villain (shared with Nicolas Cage) | Nominated | |||
Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Nicolas Cage) | Won |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2017 | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television [b] | Won | [44] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1999 | The Thin Red Line | Best Cast – Motion Picture [d] | Won | [45] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1999 | Face/Off | Best Actor | Nominated | [46] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1996 | — | Male Star of the Year | Won | [47] |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1978 | Moment by Moment | Worst Actor | Nominated | [48] |
Worst On-Screen Couple (shared with Lily Tomlin) | Won | |||
1997 | Mad City | Worst Actor | Nominated | [49] |
2000 | Battlefield Earth | Won | [50] | |
Worst On-Screen Couple [g] | Won | |||
Worst On-Screen Hairstyle (shared with Forest Whitaker) | Won | |||
2003 | Basic | Most Annoying Fake Accent (Male) | Nominated | [51] |
Year | Nominated work | Association | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1977 | Saturday Night Fever | National Board of Review | Best Actor | Won | [52] |
National Society of Film Critics | Best Actor | Nominated | [53] | ||
New York Film Critics Circle | Best Actor | Nominated | [54] | ||
1994 | Pulp Fiction | Los Angeles Film Critics Association | Best Actor | Won | [55] |
1995 | London Film Critics' Circle | Actor of the Year | Won | [56] | |
National Society of Film Critics | Best Actor | Nominated | [57] | ||
Get Shorty | New York Film Critics Circle | Best Actor | Nominated | [58] |
Year | Nominated work | Festival | Honor | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1994 | Pulp Fiction | Stockholm International Film Festival | Best Actor | Won | [59] |
1998 | — | Chicago International Film Festival | Lifetime Achievement Award | Honored | [60] |
1999 | Palm Springs International Film Festival | Desert Palm Achievement Award | Honored | [61] | |
2008 | Hairspray | Ensemble Cast Award [d] | Won | [62] | |
— | Santa Barbara International Film Festival | Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film | Honored | [63] | |
2012 | San Sebastián International Film Festival | Donostia Award | Honored | [64] | |
Zurich Film Festival | Golden Eye for Lifetime Achievement | Honored | [65] | ||
2013 | Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema | Honored | [66] |
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