List of awards and nominations received by Tom Stoppard

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Sir Tom Stoppard awards and nominations
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Award
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Nominations
Academy Awards
12
BAFTA Awards
15
Golden Globe Award
11
Emmy Awards
01
Tony Awards
58
Olivier Awards
38

Sir Tom Stoppard is an English playwright known for his works on stage and screen.

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He has received various awards including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and Golden Globe Award for his screenplay for Shakespeare in Love (1998).

He has also received five Tony Awards for Best Play for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1968), Travesties (1976), The Real Thing (1984), The Coast of Utopia (2007), and Leopoldstadt (2023).

He has also received three Laurence Olivier Awards for Arcadia (1994), Heroes (2006), and Leopoldstadt (2020).

He also received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Parade's End (2013).

Major associations

Academy Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1985 Best Original Screenplay Brazil Nominated [1]
1998 Shakespeare in Love Won [2]

BAFTA Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
British Academy Film Award
1988 Best Adapted Screenplay Empire of the Sun Nominated [3]
1999 Best Original Screenplay Shakespeare in Love Won [4]
2012 Outstanding British Film Anna Karenina Nominated [5]
British Academy Television Award
2013 Best Miniseries Parade's End Nominated [6]
Best Writer - Drama Series Nominated

Golden Globe Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1998 Best Screenplay Shakespeare in Love Won [7]

Primetime Emmy Award

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2013 Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie Parade's End Nominated [8]

Tony Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1968 Best Play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Won
1976 Travesties Won
1984 The Real Thing Won
1995 Arcadia Nominated
2001 The Invention of Love Nominated
2007 The Coast of Utopia Won
2008 Rock 'n' Roll Nominated
2023 Leopoldstadt Won

Olivier Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1979 Best New Play Night and Day Nominated
Undiscovered Country Nominated
1981 On the Razzle Nominated
1994 Arcadia Won
2003 The Coast of Utopia Nominated
2006 Best New Comedy Heroes Won
2007 Best New Play Rock 'n' Roll Nominated
2020 Leopoldstadt Won

Industry awards

Evening Standard Award

London Theatre Critics Award

Prix Italia

Giles Cooper Award

Silver Bear

Drama Desk Award

New York Critics Circle

Honorary awards

Special Honours

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Special prizes

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