List of awards and nominations received by Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard awards and nominations

Award	Wins	Nominations
Academy Awards	1	2
BAFTA Awards	1	5
Golden Globe Award	1	1
Emmy Awards	0	1
Tony Awards	5	8
Olivier Awards	3	8

Sir Tom Stoppard is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.

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

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1985	Best Original Screenplay	Brazil	Nominated	[1]
1998		Shakespeare in Love	Won	[2]

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
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

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1998	Best Screenplay	Shakespeare in Love	Won	[7]

Primetime Emmy Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie	Parade's End	Nominated	[8]

Tony Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1968	Best Play	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead	Won	[9]
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

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1979	Best New Play	Night and Day	Nominated	[10]
		Undiscovered Country	Nominated
1981	Best New Comedy	On the Razzle	Nominated	[11]
1994	Best New Play	Arcadia	Won	[12]
2003		The Coast of Utopia	Nominated	[13]
2006	Best New Comedy	Heroes	Won	[14]
2007	Best New Play	Rock 'n' Roll	Nominated	[15]
2020		Leopoldstadt	Won	[16]

Industry awards

Evening Standard Award

• 1967: Most Promising Playwright (UK)
• 1972: Jumpers for Best Play, Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award for Best New Play (UK)
• 1974: Travesties – Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy of the Year (UK)
• 1978: Night and Day – Evening Standard Award for Best Play (UK)
• 1982: The Real Thing – Evening Standard Award for Best Play (UK)
• 1993: Arcadia – Evening Standard Award for Best Play of the Year (UK)
• 1997: The Invention of Love – Evening Standard Award for Best Play (UK)

London Theatre Critics Award

• 1967: Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (UK)
• 1968: Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award for Best New Play (UK) for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
• 1972: Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award for Best New Play (UK) for Jumpers

Prix Italia

• 1968: Albert's Bridge – (Italy) ^[17]

Giles Cooper Award

• 1982: The Dog It Was That Died
• 1991: In the Native State

Silver Bear

• 1999: Shakespeare in Love – Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement (Berlin) ^[18]

Drama Desk Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1995	Outstanding Play	Arcadia	Nominated	[19]
2001		The Invention of Love	Nominated
2007		The Coast of Utopia	Won
2008		Rock 'n' Roll	Nominated
2023		Leopoldstadt	Won

New York Drama Critics' Circle

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1968	Best Play	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead	Won	[20]
1976		Travesties	Won
1984		The Real Thing	Won
1995		Arcadia	Won
2001		The Invention of Love	Won
2007		The Coast of Utopia	Won
2023	Best Foreign Play	Leopoldstadt	Won

Honorary awards

Special Honours

Insignia of Knight Bachelor

• 1972: Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
• 1978: Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1978 New Year Honours ^[21]
• 1997: Knight Bachelor in the 1997 Birthday Honours for services to literature ^[22]
• 1999: Induction into American Theater Hall of Fame ^[23]
• 2000: Order of Merit ^[24]
• 2000: Honorary Doctor of Letters, Yale University
• 2000: Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Cambridge
• 2002: President of The London Library
• 2009: Honorary Patronage of the University Philosophical Society, Trinity College Dublin
• 2013: Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Oxford
• 2017: Honorary Fellow of the British Academy

Special prizes

• 1979: Shakespeare Prize of the Hamburg-based Alfred Toepfer Foundation
• 2007: The Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts (presented on 3 April 2008 at the National Theatre) (UK)
• 2008: The 2008 Dan David Prize for Creative Rendering of the Past in Theatre (Israeli)
• 2013: The PEN Pinter Prize for "determination to tell things as they are." (UK)
• 2013: Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
• 2015: PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award ^[25]
• 2017: America Award in Literature ^[26]
• 2017: David Cohen Prize ^[27]

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