List of awards and nominations received by Bob Fosse

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List of Bob Fosse awards
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Fosse in 1963

AwardWinsNominations
Academy Awards
14
British Academy Film Awards
11
Primetime Emmy Awards
33
Golden Globe Awards
02
Tony Awards
920

Bob Fosse was a dancer, choreographer, theatre and film director.

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He directed and choreographed musical works on stage and screen, including the stage musicals The Pajama Game (1954), Damn Yankees (1955), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961), Sweet Charity (1966), Pippin (1972), and Chicago (1975). His films include Sweet Charity (1969), Cabaret (1972), Lenny (1975), All That Jazz (1979), and Star 80 (1983).

Fosse's distinctive style of choreography included turned-in knees and "jazz hands". He is the only person ever to have won Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year (1973). He was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning Best Director for Cabaret (1972) and won the Palme D'Or in 1980 for All That Jazz. He won a record eight Tonys for his choreography for The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, Redhead, Little Me, Sweet Charity, Pippin, Dancin', and Big Deal, as well as one for direction for Pippin .

Major awards

Academy Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1972 Best Director Cabaret Won [1]
1974 Best Director Lenny Nominated [2]
1979 Best Director All That Jazz Nominated [3]
Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen Nominated

British Academy Film Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1972 Best Direction Cabaret Won [4]

Golden Globe Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1972 Best Director – Motion Picture Cabaret Nominated [5]
1974 Lenny Nominated

Primetime Emmy Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1973 Outstanding Single Program – Variety and Popular Music Liza with a Z Won [6]
Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special Won
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography Won

Tony Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1955 Best Choreography The Pajama Game Won [7]
1956 Damn Yankees Won [8]
1957 Bells are Ringing Nominated [9]
1958 New Girl in Town Nominated [10]
1959 Redhead Won [11]
1963 Best Direction of a Musical Little Me Nominated [12]
Best ChoreographyWon
1964 Best Leading Actor in a Musical Pal Joey Nominated [13]
1966 Best Direction of a Musical Sweet Charity Nominated [14]
Best ChoreographyWon
1973 Best Direction of a Musical Pippin Won [15]
Best ChoreographyWon
1976 Best Direction of a Musical Chicago Nominated [16]
Best Book of a Musical Nominated
Best ChoreographyNominated
1978 Best Direction of a Musical Dancin' Nominated [17]
Best ChoreographyWon
1986 Best Direction of a Musical Big Deal Nominated [18]
Best Book of a MusicalNominated
Best ChoreographyWon

Miscellaneous awards

American Choreography Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1994Heritage AwardWon

Berlin International Film Festival

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1984 Golden Bear Star 80 Nominated [19]

Bodil Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1973 Best Non-European Film Cabaret Won [20]
1981 All That Jazz Won [21]

Cannes Film Festival

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1975 Palme d'Or Lenny Nominated
1980 All That Jazz Won [lower-alpha 1]

David di Donatello Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1979 Best Foreign Director Cabaret Won [22]

Directors Guild of America Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1972 Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Cabaret Nominated [23]
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety Liza with a Z Won
1974 Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Lenny Nominated [24]

Drama Desk Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1973 Outstanding Director Pippin Won [25]
Outstanding Choreography Won
1978 Dancin' Won [26]
1986 Outstanding Director of a Musical Sweet Charity Nominated [27]
Big Deal Nominated
Outstanding ChoreographyWon

National Board of Review Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1972 Best Director Cabaret Won [28]

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

YearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
1979 Best Director All That Jazz 3rd Place [29]

Notes

  1. Tied with Akira Kurosawa for Kagemusha .

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