List of awards and nominations received by Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty awards and nominations

Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 1 14 BAFTA Awards 0 2 Golden Globe Awards 3 11 Tony Awards 0 1
Totals [a]
Wins	11
Nominations	36
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.

Warren Beatty is an American filmmaker and actor. Over his career he has received an Academy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award. He was honored with the Irving G. Thalberg Award in 1999, the BAFTA Fellowship in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2008.

Beatty has been nominated for 14 Academy Awards, including four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for Reds (1981). Beatty is the only person to have been nominated for acting, directing, writing, and producing in the same film, and he did so twice: first for Heaven Can Wait (with Buck Henry as co-director) and again for Reds. ^[a] He was nominated for his performances as Clyde Barrow in the crime drama Bonnie and Clyde (1967), a quarterback mistakenly taken to heaven in the sports fantasy drama Heaven Can Wait (1978), John Reed in the historical epic Reds (1981), and Bugsy Siegel in the crime drama Bugsy (1991), the later three of which he also directed.

He won three competitive Golden Globe Awards, his first for New Star of the Year – Actor for Splendor in the Grass (1961). He also won for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Best Director for Reds (1981). He won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film for the later. He also won three Writers Guild of America Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay for Heaven Can Wait (1978), and two wins for Best Original Screenplay for Reds (1981), and Bulworth (1998).

On stage, Beatty made his Broadway debut in the William Inge kitchen sink drama A Loss of Roses (1960) for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.

Major associations

Academy Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1967	Best Picture	Bonnie and Clyde	Nominated	[1]
	Best Actor		Nominated
1975	Best Original Screenplay	Shampoo	Nominated	[2]
1979	Best Picture	Heaven Can Wait	Nominated	[3]
	Best Director		Nominated
	Best Actor		Nominated
	Best Adapted Screenplay		Nominated
1981	Best Picture	Reds	Nominated	[4]
	Best Director		Won
	Best Actor		Nominated
	Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
1991	Best Picture	Bugsy	Nominated	[5]
	Best Actor		Nominated
1998	Best Original Screenplay	Bulworth	Nominated	[6]
2000	Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award		Honored	[7]

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
1968	Best Foreign Actor	Bonnie and Clyde	Nominated	[8]
1983	Best Actor	Reds	Nominated	[9]
2001	BAFTA Fellowship		Received	[10]

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1961	Most Promising Newcomer - Male	Splendor in the Grass	Won	[11]
	Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama		Nominated	[11]
1967		Bonnie and Clyde	Nominated	[11]
1975	Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy	Shampoo	Nominated	[11]
1978		Heaven Can Wait	Won	[11]
1981	Best Director	Reds	Won	[11]
	Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama		Nominated	[11]
	Best Screenplay		Nominated	[11]
1991	Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama	Bugsy	Nominated	[11]
1998	Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy	Bulworth	Nominated	[11]
	Best Screenplay		Nominated	[11]
2006	Cecil B. DeMille Award		Honored	[11]

Tony Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1960	Best Featured Actor in a Play	A Loss of Roses	Nominated	[12]

Miscellaneous awards

Directors Guild Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1978	Outstanding Director - Feature Film	Heaven Can Wait	Nominated
1981		Reds	Won

Writers Guild Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1976	Best Original Screenplay	Shampoo	Nominated
1979	Best Adapted Screenplay	Heaven Can Wait	Won
1982	Best Original Screenplay	Reds	Won
1999		Bulworth	Nominated

Honorary awards

Organization	Year	Honor	Ref.
French Minister of Culture	1992	Ordre des Arts et des Lettres	[13]
National Board of Review	1998	Alan J. Pakula Memorial Award	[14]
Americans for Democratic Action	1999	Eleanor Roosevelt Award	[15]
American Society of Cinematographers	1999	Board of Governors Award	[16]
Brennan Center for Justice	2001	Brennan Legacy Award	[17]
Costume Designers Guild	2001	Distinguished Director Award	[18]
San Sebastián International Film Festival	2001	Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award	[19]
British Academy of Film and Television Arts	2002	BAFTA Fellowship	[20]
Publicists Guild Award	2002	Life Achievement Award	[21]
San Francisco International Film Festival	2002	Akira Kurosawa Lifetime Achievement Award	[22]
Kennedy Center for Performing Arts	2004	Kennedy Center Honors	[23]
Producers Guild of America	2004	Milestone Award	[24]
Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights	2005	Phillip Burton Public Service Award	[25]
American Film Institute	2008	AFI Life Achievement Award	[26]
Venice Film Festival	2008	Career Golden Lion	[27]
Art Directors Guild	2009	Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award	[28]
Britannia Awards	2011	Stanley Kubrick Award	[29]
California Hall of Fame	2013	Inductee	[30]
Museum of the Moving Image	2016	Honoree	[31]
Santa Barbara International Film Festival	2016	Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence	[32]

Directed Academy Award Performances

Year	Performer	Film	Result
Academy Award for Best Actor
1979	Himself	Heaven Can Wait	Nominated
1982		Reds	Nominated
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1979	Jack Warden	Heaven Can Wait	Nominated
1982	Jack Nicholson	Reds	Nominated
1991	Al Pacino	Dick Tracy	Nominated
Academy Award for Best Actress
1982	Diane Keaton	Reds	Nominated
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1979	Dyan Cannon	Heaven Can Wait	Nominated
1982	Maureen Stapleton	Reds	Won

Notes

1. Orson Welles was nominated for acting in, directing, and writing Citizen Kane . Although the film was also nominated for Best Picture and Welles was its producer, that award was not given to individual producers until 1951.

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