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Wins | 155 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominations | 317 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Steven Spielberg.
Steven Spielberg is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He began his career in the New Hollywood era and is currently the most commercially successful director. Spielberg is recipient of various awards including three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, twelve Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, three Directors Guild of America Awards, and seven Producers Guild of America Awards.
Spielberg has received nine nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director making him the third most-nominated director behind Martin Scorsese (10) and William Wyler (12). Spielberg won this category twice for his holocaust epic Schindler's List (1993) and the World War II drama Saving Private Ryan (1998). He holds the record for most nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture with 13 nods for the science-fiction drama E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the period drama The Color Purple (1985), Schindler's List (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), the war dramas Munich (2005), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), and War Horse (2011), the historical epics Lincoln (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017), the musical West Side Story (2021), the coming-of-age drama The Fabelmans (2022), and the romance drama Maestro (2023).
For his work on television, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for A Pinky and the Brain Christmas (1995), and three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series for the HBO war drama series Band of Brothers (2001), the science-fiction series Taken (2003), and the HBO war drama series The Pacific (2010). He also won seven Daytime Emmy Awards for producing the animated series Tiny Toon Adventures , Animaniacs , Freakazoid! , Pinky and the Brain , and Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain . As a producer for productions Broadway he was nominated twice for the Tony Award for Best Musical for Water for Elephants (2024) and Death Becomes Her (2025).
Over his career, Spielberg has received various honors and honorary awards including the BAFTA Fellowship in 1986, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1987, a Career Golden Lion in 1993, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, the Honorary César in 1995, the Directors Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000, a Motion Picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009, and the Honorary Golden Bear in 2023. He was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2015 and the National Medal of Arts in 2024 from President Joe Biden. He was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2001, and was made both a Knight and Officer of the France's Legion of Honour in 2004 and 2008, respectively.
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1977 | Best Director | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Nominated | [1] |
1981 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Nominated | [2] | |
1982 | Best Picture | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Nominated | [3] |
Best Director | Nominated | |||
1985 | Best Picture | The Color Purple | Nominated | [4] |
1993 | Schindler's List | Won | [5] | |
Best Director | Won | |||
1998 | Best Picture | Saving Private Ryan | Nominated | [6] |
Best Director | Won | |||
2005 | Best Picture | Munich | Nominated | [7] |
Best Director | Nominated | |||
2006 | Best Picture | Letters from Iwo Jima | Nominated | [8] |
2011 | War Horse | Nominated | [9] | |
2012 | Lincoln | Nominated | [10] | |
Best Director | Nominated | |||
2015 | Best Picture | Bridge of Spies | Nominated | [11] |
2017 | The Post | Nominated | [12] | |
2021 | West Side Story | Nominated | [13] | |
Best Director | Nominated | |||
2022 | Best Picture | The Fabelmans | Nominated | [14] |
Best Director | Nominated | |||
Best Original Screenplay [a] | Nominated | |||
2023 | Best Picture | Maestro | Nominated | [15] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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British Academy Film Awards | ||||
1976 | Best Direction | Jaws | Nominated | [16] |
1979 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Nominated | [17] | |
Best Screenplay | Nominated | |||
1983 | Best Film | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Nominated | [18] |
Best Direction | Nominated | |||
1994 | Best Film | Schindler's List | Won | [19] |
Best Direction | Won | |||
1999 | Best Film | Saving Private Ryan | Nominated | [20] |
Best Direction | Nominated | |||
2012 | Best Animated Film | The Adventures of Tintin | Nominated | [21] |
2013 | Best Film | Lincoln | Nominated | [22] |
2016 | Bridge of Spies | Nominated | [23] | |
Best Direction | Nominated | |||
2023 | Best Original Screenplay [a] | The Fabelmans | Nominated | |
British Academy Games Awards | ||||
2009 | Best Casual Game | Boom Blox | Won | |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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Critics' Choice Movie Awards | ||||
1998 | Best Director | Saving Private Ryan | Won | |
2002 | Catch Me If You Can / Minority Report | Won | ||
2005 | Munich | Nominated | ||
2011 | War Horse | Nominated | ||
2012 | Lincoln | Nominated | ||
2015 | Bridge of Spies | Nominated | ||
2017 | The Post | Nominated | ||
2021 | West Side Story | Nominated | ||
2022 | The Fabelmans | Nominated | ||
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated | |||
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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Primetime Emmy Awards | ||||
1986 | Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series | Amazing Stories: The Mission | Nominated | |
1991 | Outstanding Animated Program | Tiny Toon Adventures: The Looney Beginning | Nominated | |
1995 | Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery | Nominated | ||
1996 | A Pinky & the Brain Christmas | Won | ||
2002 | Outstanding Non-Fiction Special | We Stand Alone Together | Nominated | |
Outstanding Limited Series | Band of Brothers | Won | ||
2003 | Taken | Won | ||
2006 | Into the West | Nominated | ||
2010 | The Pacific | Won | ||
2016 | Outstanding Television Movie | All the Way | Nominated | |
2021 | Oslo | Nominated | ||
Daytime Emmy Award | ||||
1991 | Outstanding Children's Animated Program | Tiny Toon Adventures | Won | |
1992 | Nominated | |||
1993 | Won | |||
1994 | Animaniacs | Nominated | ||
1995 | Nominated | |||
1996 | Won | |||
1997 | Won | |||
Outstanding Special Class Animated Program | Freakazoid! | Won | ||
Outstanding Children's Animated Program | Pinky and the Brain | Nominated | ||
1998 | Nominated | |||
Animaniacs | Nominated | |||
1999 | Nominated | |||
Outstanding Special Class Animated Program | Pinky and the Brain | Won | ||
Outstanding Children's Animated Program | Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain | Nominated | ||
2000 | Won | |||
International Emmy Awards | ||||
2006 | Founders Honorary Award | Honored | ||
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1976 | Best Director – Motion Picture | Jaws | Nominated | [24] |
1978 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Nominated | ||
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture | Nominated | |||
1982 | Best Director – Motion Picture | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Nominated | |
1983 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Nominated | ||
1986 | The Color Purple | Nominated | ||
1994 | Schindler's List | Won | ||
1998 | Amistad | Nominated | ||
1999 | Saving Private Ryan | Won | ||
2002 | A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Nominated | ||
Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film | Band of Brothers | Won | ||
2003 | Taken | Nominated | ||
2006 | Best Director – Motion Picture | Munich | Nominated | |
Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film | Into the West | Nominated | ||
2011 | The Pacific | Nominated | ||
2013 | Best Director – Motion Picture | Lincoln | Nominated | |
2018 | The Post | Nominated | ||
2022 | West Side Story | Nominated | ||
2023 | The Fabelmans | Won | ||
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture [a] | Nominated |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2024 | Best Musical | Water for Elephants | Nominated | [25] |
2025 | Death Becomes Her | Nominated |
Year | Performer | Film | Result | ||||
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Academy Award for Best Actor | |||||||
1993 | Liam Neeson | Schindler's List | Nominated | ||||
1998 | Tom Hanks | Saving Private Ryan | Nominated | ||||
2012 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Lincoln | Won | ||||
Academy Award for Best Actress | |||||||
1985 | Whoopi Goldberg | The Color Purple | Nominated | ||||
2017 | Meryl Streep | The Post | Nominated | ||||
2022 | Michelle Williams | The Fabelmans | Nominated | ||||
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor | |||||||
1993 | Ralph Fiennes | Schindler's List | Nominated | ||||
1997 | Anthony Hopkins | Amistad | Nominated | ||||
2002 | Christopher Walken | Catch Me If You Can | Nominated | ||||
2012 | Tommy Lee Jones | Lincoln | Nominated | ||||
2015 | Mark Rylance | Bridge of Spies | Won | ||||
2022 | Judd Hirsch | The Fabelmans | Nominated | ||||
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress | |||||||
1977 | Melinda Dillon | Close Encounters Of The Third Kind | Nominated | ||||
1985 | Margaret Avery | The Color Purple | Nominated | ||||
1985 | Oprah Winfrey | Nominated | |||||
2012 | Sally Field | Lincoln | Nominated | ||||
2021 | Ariana DeBose | West Side Story | Won |