List of awards and nominations received by Angela Lansbury

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Lansbury in a trailer for Gaslight (1944), for which she received her first Academy Award nomination.
Award Wins Nominations
Academy Awards 0 (H) 3
Tony Awards 5 (H) 7
Golden Globe Awards 6 15
Primetime Emmy Awards 0 18
Grammy Awards 0 1

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by British-American actress Dame Angela Lansbury.

Lansbury is one of few performers who have received nominations for all EGOT awards — Emmy, Grammy, Academy Award (Oscar), and Tony Awards.

Lansbury, an icon in musical theatre, received seven Tony Award nominations winning five awards for Mame in 1966, Dear World in 1969, Gypsy in 1975, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 1979, and Blithe Spirit in 2009. In 2022 she received the Lifetime Achievement Tony Award. She also earned a Laurence Olivier Award, three Drama Desk Awards, and two Outer Critics Circle Awards.

For her work in film she earned three Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Gaslight (1944), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), and The Manchurian Candidate (1962). She received an Honorary Academy Award for her lifetime achievement in film in 2013. She also earned two Golden Globe Awards for The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Manchurian Candidate. She earned a Grammy Award nomination for Album of the Year for Beauty and the Beast (1991). For her work in television she earned 18 Primetime Emmy Award nominations including 12 consecutive nominations for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote (1984-1996). She also received four Golden Globe Awards for Murder, She Wrote. In 1997 she earned a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and in 2003 she earned a Britannia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Television and Film.

Major associations

Academy Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result
1944 Best Supporting Actress Gaslight Nominated
1945 The Picture of Dorian Gray Nominated
1962 The Manchurian Candidate Nominated
2013 Academy Honorary Award Won

Grammy Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result
1993 Album of the Year Beauty and the Beast Nominated

Emmy Awards

Lansbury was nominated for eighteen Primetime Emmy Awards without a win, including twelve consecutive nominations as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for every season of Murder, She Wrote, the most-nominated performer in this category.

Year Category Nominated work Result
Primetime Emmy Awards
1983 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special Little Gloria... Happy at Last Nominated
1985 Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety Program Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Nominated
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Murder, She Wrote Nominated
1986 Nominated
1987 Nominated
Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety Program 41st Tony Awards Nominated
1988 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Murder, She Wrote Nominated
1989 Nominated
1990 Nominated
Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety Program 43rd Tony Awards Nominated
1991 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Murder, She Wrote Nominated
1992 Nominated
1993 Nominated
1994 Nominated
1995 Nominated
1996 Nominated
2004 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie The Blackwater Lightship Nominated
2005 Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit / Trial by Jury[1] Nominated

Tony Awards

Lansbury won five competitive Tony Awards. She tied with Julie Harris, and was surpassed only by Audra McDonald with six wins for the most Tonys any performer has received. (Both Harris and Lansbury have also been awarded Special Tonys as their sixth non-competitive award.):[2] Lansbury was one of only five perfomers who have been nominated for all four Tony acting awards, the others being Raúl Esparza, Jan Maxwell, Boyd Gaines, and Audra McDonald.

Year Category Nominated work Result
1966 Best Actress in a Musical Mame Won
1969 Dear World Won
1975 Gypsy Won
1979 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Won
2007 Best Actress in a Play Deuce Nominated
2009 Best Featured Actress in a Play Blithe Spirit Won
2010 Best Featured Actress in a Musical A Little Night Music Nominated
2022 Lifetime Achievement Tony Award Won

Theater awards

Drama Desk Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result
1975 Outstanding Actress in a Musical Gypsy Won
1978 The King and I Nominated
1979 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Won
2009 Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Blithe Spirit Won
2010 Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical A Little Night Music Nominated
2012 Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play The Best Man Nominated

Laurence Olivier Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result
2015 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Blithe Spirit Won

Outer Critics Circle Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result
1966 Outstanding Performance Mame Won
2009 Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Blithe Spirit Won
2010 Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical A Little Night Music Nominated
2012 Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play The Best Man Nominated

Film and television awards

Golden Globe Awards

Lansbury was nominated for fifteen Golden Globes, and won six times.[3] Lansbury tied with Alan Alda, Shirley MacLaine, and Jack Nicholson as the second-most awarded performer in acting categories, and surpassed only by Meryl Streep with eight wins.

Year Category Nominated work Result
1945 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture The Picture of Dorian Gray Won
1962 The Manchurian Candidate Won
1970 Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical Something for Everyone Nominated
1971 Bedknobs and Broomsticks Nominated
1983 Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or TV Film The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story Nominated
1984 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Murder, She Wrote Won
1985 Nominated
1986 Won
1987 Nominated
1988 Nominated
1989 Won
1990 Nominated
1991 Won
1992 Nominated
1994 Nominated

BAFTA Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result
BAFTA Award
1978 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Death on the Nile Nominated
1991 Special Award Won
Britannia Award
2003 Lifetime Achievement in Television and Film Won

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result
1995 Female Actor in a Drama Series Murder, She Wrote Nominated
1997 Life Time Achievement Award Won

Annie Award

Year Category Nominated work Result
1998 Outstanding Female in an Animated Feature Production Anastasia Nominated

Honorary Awards

Kennedy Center Honors, 2000

Lansbury has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame – one for film (north side of the 6600 block of Hollywood Boulevard) and one for television (west side of the 1500 block of Vine Street)[24]

In 1982, Lansbury was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.[25] She was also inducted into the Television Hall of Fame of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, an honour she earned in 1996.[26]

See also

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