List of awards and nominations received by Karen Black

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Over the course of her 50-year-long film career, American actress Karen Black received numerous critical accolades for her performances in films and theater. In 1965, she received a nomination for Best Actress by the New York Drama Critics' Circle for her Broadway performance in The Playroom. She later garnered critical acclaim for her performance in the film Five Easy Pieces (1970), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and for which she won a Golden Globe Award. Black won her second Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby (1974). The following year, she earned her third Golden Globe nomination, this time in the category of Best Actress, for her role in The Day of the Locust (1975). Black was also nominated for a Grammy Award for her songwriting and singing on the soundtrack for Nashville (1975), in which she starred as a glamorous country singer.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards are a set of awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually for excellence of cinematic achievements. [1]

YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
1970 Five Easy Pieces Best Supporting Actress Nominated [2]

Chicago Alt.film Fest

The Chicago Alt.film Fest is a film festival held in Chicago which screens and celebrates achievements in independent and experimental cinema.

YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
1999 Fallen Arches Best ActingWon [3]

Fangoria Chainsaw Awards

The Fangoria Chainsaw Awards are an award ceremony focused on horrors and thriller films, inaugurated in 1992. [4]

YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
2003 House of 1000 Corpses Best Supporting ActressWon [5]

Golden Globe Awards

The Golden Globe Award is bestowed by the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. [6]

YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
1970 Five Easy Pieces Best Supporting Actress Won [a] [7]
1974 The Great Gatsby Won
1975 The Day of the Locust Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Nominated

Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards are presented annually by The Recording Academy to recognize achievements in the music industry. [8]

YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
1975 Nashville: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(shared with Keith Carradine, Ronee Blakley, Richard Baskin,
Ben Raleigh, Richard Reicheg, and Henry Gibson)		 Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Nominated [9]

Hermosa Beach Film Festival Award

The Hermosa Beach Film Festival Award is held annually in Hermosa Beach, Florida.

YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
1998 Dogtown and Sugar: The Fall of the WestBest ActressWon [3]

National Board of Review

The National Board of Review was founded in 1909 in New York City to award "film, domestic and foreign, as both art and entertainment". [10]

YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
1970 Five Easy Pieces Best Supporting Actress Won [11]

New York Drama Critics' Circle

The New York Drama Critics' Circle awards is made up of 19 drama critics from daily newspapers, magazines and wire services based in the New York City metropolitan area. [12]

YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
1965The PlayroomBest ActressNominated [3]

New York Film Critics Circle

Founded in 1935, the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) is an American film critics' organization founded in 1935, and whose membership includes over 30 film critics from New York-based daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, online publications. [13]

YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
1970 Five Easy Pieces Best Supporting Actress Won [11]
Best Actress Nominated

Sitges Film Festival

Founded in 1968, the Sitges Film Festival is an international film festival held annually in Spain, screening and celebrating achievements in fantasy and horror films. [14]

YearNominated workCategoryResultRef.
1976 Burnt Offerings Best ActressWon [15]

Notes

  1. ↑ Tied with Maureen Stapleton for Airport.

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References

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  2. ↑ Duke, Alan (August 9, 2013). "'Five Easy Pieces' actress Karen Black loses cancer fight". CNN . Archived from the original on August 23, 2019. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 Riggs, Thomas (2000). Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television. Vol. 31. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Publishing Group. p. 40. ISBN   978-0-787-64636-3.
  4. ↑ Williams, Ken (May 14, 1992). "Scary Films--and Fans--in Focus". Los Angeles Times .
  5. ↑ Sciallis, Elvezio (June 16, 2004). "L'Oscar insanguinato". Horror Magazine (in Italian). Archived from the original on September 9, 2020. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
  6. ↑ "History of the Golden Globes". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on March 10, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Karen Black". Golden Globes . Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on August 23, 2019. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
  8. ↑ "The GRAMMY Awards". Grammy Award . Archived from the original on July 31, 2012. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
  9. ↑ Willman, Chris (June 14, 2019). "Ronee Blakley Remembers Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue: 'We Were Delirious'". Variety . Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  10. ↑ "About The National Board of Review". National Board of Review . Archived from the original on February 10, 2015.
  11. 1 2 Welsh, James M.; Phillips, Gene D.; Hill, Rodney F. (2010). The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. pp. 19–20. ISBN   978-0-810-87651-4.
  12. ↑ Jones, Kenneth (May 12, 2008). "Passing Strange and August: Osage County Win 2007–08 NY Drama Critics Circle Award". Playbill . Retrieved August 23, 2019.
  13. ↑ "About the New York Film Critics Circle". New York Film Critics Circle . Archived from the original on August 2, 2014. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
  14. ↑ "The Festival". Sitges Film Festival . Archived from the original on July 13, 2019.
  15. ↑ "1977 Winners". Sitges Film Festival . Archived from the original on December 11, 2018.(Click "List of winners")
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