List of awards and nominations received by Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard awards and nominations

Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 1 2 BAFTA Awards 0 5 Golden Globe Award 1 1 Emmy Awards 0 1 Tony Awards 5 8 Olivier Awards 3 8
Totals [a]
Wins	32
Nominations	67
Note Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

Sir Tom Stoppard is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, three Laurence Olivier Awards, and five Tony Awards as well as nominations for five BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1978 and a Knight Bachelor in 1997 by Queen Elizabeth II.

As a playwright, he has been honored both on the Broadway and West End stage. For the former, he won the five Tony Awards for Best Play for the absurdist tragicomedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1968), the comedy Travesties (1976), the romance drama The Real Thing (1984), the epic trilogy The Coast of Utopia (2007), and the Holocaust drama Leopoldstadt (2023). For the later, he won three Laurence Olivier Awards, two for Best New Play for epic Arcadia (1994) and Leopoldstadt (2020) and one for Best New Comedy Play for Heroes (2006).

Stoppard has written numerous screenplays for film. He gained acclaim for co-writing the Terry Gilliam directed dystopian science fiction black comedy Brazil (1985) for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He wrote the Steven Spielberg coming-of-age war drama epic Empire of the Sun (1987) for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. For his film adaptation of his own play, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) he won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival.

He gained widespread acclaim for co-writing the John Madden directed period romantic drama Shakespeare in Love (1997) for which he earned the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival as well as a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay. He wrote the film adaptation of Anna Karenina (2012) earning a BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film nomination. On television, he wrote the BBC Two limited series Parade's End (2013) for which he was nominated for two British Academy Television Awards (for Best Miniseries and Best Writer – Drama Series and a Primetime Emmy Award.

Stoppard was elected a Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1972, received the Shakespeare Prize in 1979, was inducted in the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1999, received the Writers Guild of America Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement in 2013, and the David Cohen Prize in 2017. Stoppard has also received Honorary degrees from Yale University in 2000, the University of Cambridge in 2000, and the University of Oxford in 2013. He was named Honorary Patronage of the University Philosophical Society at Trinity College Dublin in 2009.

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
1987	Best Adapted Screenplay	Empire of the Sun	Nominated	[3]
1998	Best Original Screenplay	Shakespeare in Love	Nominated	[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

Critics' Choice Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Critics' Choice Movie Awards
1998	Best Screenplay	Shakespeare in Love	Won	[7]

Emmy Award

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

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1998	Best Screenplay	Shakespeare in Love	Won	[9]

Laurence 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]

Tony Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1968	Best Play	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead	Won	[17]
1976		Travesties	Won	[18]
1984		The Real Thing	Won	[19]
1995		Arcadia	Nominated	[20]
2001		The Invention of Love	Nominated	[21]
2007		The Coast of Utopia	Won	[22]
2008		Rock 'n' Roll	Nominated	[23]
2023		Leopoldstadt	Won	[24]

Miscellaneous awards

Organizations	Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
Berlin International Film Festival	1999	Silver Bear	Shakespeare in Love	Won	[25]
Drama Desk Award	1995	Outstanding Play	Arcadia	Nominated	[26]
	2001		The Invention of Love	Nominated
	2007		The Coast of Utopia	Won
	2008		Rock 'n' Roll	Nominated
	2023		Leopoldstadt	Won
Evening Standard Award	1967	Most Promising Playwright (UK)	Tom Stoppard	Won
	1974	Best Comedy of the Year (UK)	Travesties	Won
	1978	Best Play (UK)	Night and Day	Won
	1982	Best Play (UK)	The Real Thing	Won
	1993	Best Play of the Year (UK)	Arcadia	Won
	1997	Best Play (UK)	The Invention of Love	Won
London Theatre Critics Award	1967	Best New Play (UK)	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead	Won
	1972	Best New Play (UK)	Jumpers	Won
New York Drama Critics' Circle	1968	Best Play	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead	Won	[27]
	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
Prix Italia	1968	Best Play	Albert's Bridge – (Italy)	Won	[28]
Venice International Film Festival	1990	Golden Lion	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead	Won	[29]

Honorary awards

Insignia of Knight Bachelor

Organizations	Year	Award	Result	Ref.
Royal Society of Literature	1972	Elected as a Fellow	Honored	[30]
Queen Elizabeth II	1978	Commander of the Order of the British Empire	Honored	[31]
Alfred Toepfer Foundation	1979	Shakespeare Prize	Honored
Queen Elizabeth II	1997	Knight of the Order of the British Empire	Honored	[32]
American Theater Hall of Fame	1999	Induction	Honored	[33]
Queen Elizabeth II	2000	Order of Merit	Honored	[34]
The London Library	2002	Named President of the Institution	Honored
The Critics' Circle	2008	Distinguished Service to the Arts Award	Honored
PEN Pinter Prize	2013	Lifetime Achievement Award	Honored
Writers Guild of America	2013	Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement	Honored
PEN/Allen Foundation	2015	Literary Service Award	Honored	[35]
British Academy	2017	Honorary Fellow	Honored
America Award in Literature	2017	Lifetime Achievement Award	Honored	[36]
Arts Council England	2017	David Cohen Prize	Honored	[37]

Honorary degrees

Organizations	Year	Award	Result	Ref.
Yale University	2000	Honorary Doctor of Letters	Honored
University of Cambridge	2000	Honorary Doctor of Letters	Honored
Trinity College Dublin	2009	Patronage of the University Philosophical Society	Honored
University of Oxford	2013	Honorary Doctor of Letters	Honored

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