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This List includes the awards and nominations of Marlon Brando .
Marlon Brando was an American actor known for his intense leading roles in film. He received numerous awards including two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
He received his first prize, the Theatre World Awards, for his debut performances on the Broadway stages in New York City. [1] Brando made a cinematic impression instantly with his debut performance in The Men (1950), [2] which he succeeded with his iconic portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). [3] He received his first of four consecutive Oscar nominations for the latter, [4] which is a record in the Best Actor category and just 1 shy of the grand total held by both Bette Davis and Greer Garson, with 5 each, in Best Actress.
He would next receive Oscar nominations for portraying Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata! (1952); [5] Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (1953); [6] and finally, Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954), for which he garnered his first Academy Award and Golden Globe victory. [7] He also won the Cannes Best Actor prize for Viva Zapata!. He earned further Golden Globes attention as Best Comedy/Musical Actor for The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956), [8] but also some backlash for doing "yellowface" (white actors portraying Asian characters). Sayonara (1957) earned him his fifth Oscar nomination, [9] and third Globe recognition for a film. The Young Lions (1958) netted him his fourth BAFTA nomination. [10] And The Ugly American (1963) garnered him his fourth Golden Globe nomination for a performance. [11]
His iconic role as Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972) accrued nominations from all 3 awards contingents. [12] He received his second Academy Award and another Golden Globe, but controversially declined both awards. [13] At the 1973 Oscars telecast, he sent Sacheen Littlefeather in his place to announce his refusal on behalf of "Hollywood's unfavorable depiction of Native Americans". [14] He followed that up with his highly acclaimed performance in the controversial film, Last Tango in Paris (1972), earning his seventh Academy Award nomination. [15] The Jupiter Awards honored his performance in Apocalypse Now (1979), [16] and he won an Emmy Award portraying neo-nazi George Lincoln Rockwell in the television miniseries Roots: The Next Generations (1979). [17] He was also nominated by the Directors Guild of America for his directorial achievement on One-Eyed Jacks (1961), [18] a film which also won him the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. [19]
His career featured some critically panned performances, notably in The Formula (1980) and The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), both of which earned dubious distinction from the Razzie Awards and Stinkers Bad Movie Awards. He won Worst Supporting Actor for the latter film from both organizations. However, he did receive his eighth Oscar nomination, and subsequent BAFTA and Golden Globe recognition, for his supporting performance in A Dry White Season (1989). [20] These would become his final major distinctions in his six-decades-long career. [21]
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† | Indicates a posthumous award |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1951 | Best Actor | A Streetcar Named Desire | Nominated | [3] [4] |
1952 | Viva Zapata! | Nominated | [5] | |
1953 | Julius Caesar | Nominated | [6] | |
1954 | On the Waterfront | Won | [7] | |
1957 | Sayonara | Nominated | [9] | |
1972 | The Godfather | Won§ [lower-alpha 1] | [12] [13] [14] | |
1973 | Last Tango in Paris | Nominated | [15] | |
1989 | Best Supporting Actor | A Dry White Season | Nominated | [20] [21] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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British Academy Film Awards | ||||
1953 | Best Foreign Actor | Viva Zapata! | Won | [5] |
1954 | Julius Caesar | Won | [6] | |
1955 | On the Waterfront | Won | [7] | |
1959 | The Young Lions | Nominated | [10] | |
1973 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | The Godfather | Nominated | [12] [13] [22] |
The Nightcomers | ||||
1974 | Last Tango in Paris | Nominated | [15] | |
1990 | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | A Dry White Season | Nominated | [20] [21] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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Primetime Emmy Awards | ||||
1979 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie | Roots: The Next Generations | Won | [17] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1955 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | On the Waterfront | Won | [7] |
Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite – Male) | — | Nominated | ||
1956 | — | Won | ||
1957 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical | The Teahouse of the August Moon | Nominated | [8] |
1958 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | Sayonara | Nominated | [9] |
1964 | The Ugly American | Nominated | [11] | |
1973 | The Godfather | Won§ [lower-alpha 2] | [12] [13] [14] | |
Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite – Male) | — | Won | ||
1974 | — | Won | ||
1990 | Best Supporting Actor — Motion Picture | A Dry White Season | Nominated |
Year | Awards ceremony | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1952 | Cannes Film Festival | Best Actor | Viva Zapata! | Won | [5] |
1952 | Jussi Awards | Best Foreign Actor | The Men | Won | [2] [3] [4] |
A Streetcar Named Desire | |||||
1955 | Bambi Awards | Best Actor — International | On the Waterfront | Nominated | [7] |
1958 | David di Donatello Awards | Best Foreign Actor | Sayonara | Won [lower-alpha 3] | [9] |
1961 | San Sebastián International Film Festival | Golden Shell (Best Film) | One-Eyed Jacks | Won | [18] [19] |
1973 | Jussi Awards | Actor of the Year | N/A | Won | |
1989 | Tokyo International Film Festival | Best Actor | A Dry White Season | Won | [20] [21] |
Year | Awards ceremony | Category | Nominated work | Character | Result | Ref. |
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1951 | New York Film Critics Circle | Best Actor | A Streetcar Named Desire | Stanley Kowalski | Runner-Up | [3] |
1954 | On the Waterfront | Terry Malloy | Won | [7] | ||
1957 | Sayonara | Maj. Lloyd "Ace" Gruver, USAF | Runner-Up | [9] | ||
1972 | National Society of Film Critics | Best Actor | The Godfather | (Don) Vito Corleone | Runner-Up | [23] |
1973 | New York Film Critics Circle | Best Actor | Runner-Up | [12] | ||
1973 | Kansas City Film Critics Circle | Won [lower-alpha 4] | [24] | |||
1974 | National Society of Film Critics | Last Tango in Paris | Paul | Won | [15] [23] | |
1974 | New York Film Critics Circle | Won | [25] | |||
1989 | Best Supporting Actor | A Dry White Season | Ian McKenzie | 3rd Place | [20] | |
1990 | Chicago Film Critics Association | Best Supporting Actor | Nominated | [21] |
Other major industry awards | ||||||
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Year | Awards ceremony | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. | |
1962 | DGA Awards | Outstanding Directorial Achievement — Feature Film | One-Eyed Jacks | Nominated | [18] [19] | |
Various minor awards | ||||||
Year | Awards ceremony | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. | |
1946 | Theatre World Awards | Outstanding NYC Stage Debut Performance(s) | Candida | Recipient [lower-alpha 5] | [1] | |
Truckline Café | ||||||
1957 | Laurel Awards | Top Male Comedic Performance | The Teahouse of the August Moon | Won | [8] | |
1958 | Top Male Dramatic Performance | The Young Lions | Won | [10] | ||
1967 | Western Heritage Awards | Bronze Wrangler | The Appaloosa | Won [lower-alpha 6] | ||
1972 | Fotogramas de Plata | Best Foreign Movie Performer | Burn! | Won | ||
1980 | Jupiter Awards | Best International Actor | Apocalypse Now | Nominated | [16] | |
1981 | Stinkers Bad Movie Awards | Worst Supporting Actor | The Formula | Nominated | ||
Most Annoying Fake Accent: Male | Nominated | |||||
1981 | Razzie Awards | Worst Supporting Actor | Nominated | |||
1992 | Christopher Columbus: The Discovery | Nominated | ||||
1997 | The Island of Dr. Moreau | Won | ||||
Worst Screen Couple/Combo (Shared with Nelson de la Rosa, who played Majai) | Nominated | |||||
1997 | Stinkers Bad Movie Awards | Worst Supporting Actor | Won | |||
Worst On-Screen Hairstyle | Nominated | |||||
Non-specific and honorary accolades | ||||
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Year | Awards ceremony | Category | Result | Ref. |
1958 | Laurel Awards | Golden Laurel – Top Male Star | Nominated | |
1959 | Nominated | |||
1960 | Hollywood Walk of Fame | Motion Picture Star | Inducted | [26] |
1961 | Laurel Awards | Golden Laurel – Top Male Star | 12th Place | |
Golden Apple Awards | Sour Apple for Least Cooperative Actor | Winner | ||
1975 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite Motion Picture Actor | Nominated | |
1975 | Photoplay Awards | Favorite Male Motion Picture Star | Nominated | |
1976 | Nominated | |||
1978 | Nominated | |||
1980 | The Golden Turkey Awards | Most Ludicrous Racial Impersonation: (As a native of Okinawa, Japan in The Teahouse of the August Moon) | Received | [27] |
2000 | Online Film & Television Association | Film Hall of Fame: Acting | Received | |
2004 | Italian Online Movie Awards | Lifetime Achievement Award | Received† | |
2021 | Online Film & Television Association | Film Hall of Fame: [Character — (Don) Vito Corleone, The Godfather] | Received† | [12] [13] |
The following are the results from various polls.
All-Time Rankings | ||||
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Rank | Organisation | Category | Lost to | Ref. |
1st | Film School WTF | Top 100 Best Hollywood Actors Of All Time | — | [28] |
2nd | Filmsite | 100 Greatest Movie Performances of All Time | Peter O'Toole | [29] |
Internet Movie Database (IMDb) | Top 100 Greatest Actors of All Time (The Ultimate List) | Jack Nicholson | [30] | |
4th | AMC | The 50 Greatest Actors of All Time | Tom Hanks | [31] |
American Film Institute (AFI) | 100 Years...100 Stars | Humphrey Bogart | [32] | |
8th | TheTopTens | Top Ten Greatest Actors | Johnny Depp | [33] |
10th | Internet Movie Database (IMDb) | Best Actors - Top 250 | Jack Nicholson | [34] |
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In the first two years alone, a nod was given to performances by Betty Comden, Judy Holliday, and John Raitt, joined the following year by Barbara Bel Geddes, Marlon Brando, and Burt Lancaster.
'Stanley Kramer, producer of The Men, had intended on putting Marlon Brando in a good hotel, but Brando would have none of it,' Theodore Strauss wrote.
Brando should have won the Oscar that year, unquestionably, as Streetcar is a better and more influential film than On the Waterfront for which he would get an Oscar in 1954.
However, Brando still applied his revolutionary method acting approach and magnetic energy to the part and received the Oscar nomination for Lead Actor.
Brando would earn a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor, (1953), and Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, 1952.
Brando would get his third best acting nomination in three years for his Mark Antony.
'Oscars' went to Marlon Brando, its star, for best actor,...
Brando dressing up to be the Japanese narrator Sakini seemed racist to me, so I didn't pursue watching the film,—
...she starred opposite Marlon Brando and Red Buttons in Sayonara, playing Katsumi,...
...but Brando made this his own, as he was to do with so many roles,...
The finished product had some fans -- it won Golden Globe nominations for George Englund and Brando,
He turned down the Golden Globe belatedly, but on Oscar night, the Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather rejected the award on his behalf...
Brando would transform Vito Corleone from a typical villain into an eminent family man with a rich off-screen life and history.
Littlefeather, however, held up her right hand to decline the statuette proffered by Moore as she reached the podium and told the Chandler audience and the 85 million viewers watching at home that Brando 'very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award.'
In one shocking scene, Paul rapes Jeanne, using a stick of butter as a lubricant.
When Brando arrived, he weighed a reported 300 pounds, was incapable of memorizing his lines,...
Of eight Oscar nominations, he won twice for best actor. He also won an Emmy Award for a supporting role as George Lincoln Rockwell, the American Nazi, in the television miniseries Roots: The Next Generations (1979).
And perhaps the most important and impressive feature of Brando's piece is that it brings back to the Western a sense of period, a sense of community, decidedly lacking during the last few years.
GOLDEN SHELL FOR BEST FILM // SILVER SHELL FOR BEST ACTRESS :: Pina Pellicer
...a particularly impressive, Oscar-nominated supporting turn by Marlon Brando, who anchors the movie's fiery, riveting courtroom scenes...
...Brando coming out of retirement for the shoot and reportedly donating his salary to an anti-apartheid organization. Euzhan Palcy shot the court-room scenes that earned him a best supporting actor Oscar nomination...
Brando brought the character of the gardener Peter Quint both a magnetic attractiveness and a disgusting repulsion, earning himself a Best Actor BAFTA nomination...
Actor – Marlon Brando (Last Tango in Paris)
Best Actor – Tie: Marlon Brando, The Godfather & Stacy Keach, Fat City
Marlon Brando's delineation of the troubled American in the sexually explicit, French-made Last Tango in Paris, won the best actor award...
Director Martin Scorsese said of him, 'He is the marker. There's 'before Brando' and 'after Brando'.' Actor Jack Nicholson once said, 'When Marlon dies, everybody moves up one.'