List of awards and nominations received by Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) was an American actress in film, stage, and television. Her career spanned 67 years through eight decades (1928–1995), during which she was honored with many of the industry's top awards. Hepburn was nominated for a total of 12 Academy Awards for Best Actress, and won four – the record number of wins for a performer. She received two awards and five nominations from the British Academy Film Awards, one award and six nominations from the Emmy Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, eight Golden Globe nominations, and two Tony Award nominations.

Katharine Hepburn awards and nominations

Hepburn in 1942
Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 4 12 British Academy Film Awards 2 5 Golden Globe Awards 0 8 Grammy Awards 0 2 Primetime Emmy Awards 1 6 Tony Awards 0 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 2
Totals[a]
Wins	50
Nominations	100
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.

International awards from the Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the People's Choice Awards, and others. Hepburn was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1979. She also won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1979, and received the Kennedy Center Honors, which recognize a lifetime of accomplishments in the arts, in 1990.^[1][2]

She also won awards from the Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and Montréal World Film Festival; the New York Film Critics Circle Awards and the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards; the People's Choice Awards, the Laurel Awards, the Golden Apple Awards, the American Movie Awards, the American Comedy Awards, and the David di Donatello Awards. Hepburn was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1979. She also received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1979, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 1990.

Outside of acting, Hepburn also received recognition from the American Humanist Association and the Council of Fashion Designers of America. In 2000, at age 93, she was named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star of Classic Hollywood cinema.

Academy Awards

Hepburn's four Academy Awards for Best Actress, which are on display in the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Hepburn won four Academy Awards, the record number for a performer, and received a total of 12 Oscar nominations for Best Actress — a number surpassed only by Meryl Streep.^[3] Hepburn also holds the record for the longest time span between first and last Oscar nominations, at 48 years.^[3] She won for Best Actress for her roles as an actress on her journey to stardom in Morning Glory (1933), a mother who's shocked when her daughter is engaged to a black man in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (1968), and an elderly woman in On Golden Pond (1981). She was Oscar-nominated for Alice Adams (1935), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Woman of the Year (1942), The African Queen (1951), Summertime (1955), The Rainmaker (1956), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), and Long Day's Journey into Night (1962).

Major associations

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1932/33	Best Actress	Morning Glory	Won	[4]
1935		Alice Adams	Nominated	[5]
1940		The Philadelphia Story	Nominated	[6]
1942		Woman of the Year	Nominated	[7]
1951		The African Queen	Nominated	[8]
1955		Summertime	Nominated	[9]
1956		The Rainmaker	Nominated	[10]
1959		Suddenly, Last Summer	Nominated	[11]
1962		Long Day's Journey into Night	Nominated	[12]
1967		Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Won	[13]
1968		The Lion in Winter[a]	Won	[14]
1981		On Golden Pond	Won	[15]

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
1953	Best Foreign Actress	The African Queen	Nominated
1956		Summertime	Nominated
1958		The Rainmaker	Nominated
1969	Best Actress	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner / The Lion in Winter	Won
1983		On Golden Pond	Won

Emmy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Primetime Emmy Awards
1974	Outstanding Actress in a Drama	The Glass Menagerie	Nominated	[16]
1975	Outstanding Actress in a Special - Drama or Comedy	Love Among the Ruins	Won	[17]
1979	Outstanding Actress in a Limited Series or Special	The Corn is Green	Nominated	[18]
1986	Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Special	Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry	Nominated	[19]
Outstanding Informational Special	The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn	Nominated
	1993	Katharine Hepburn: All About Me	Nominated	[20]

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1952	Best Actress - Musical or Comedy	Pat and Mike	Nominated	[21]
1956	Best Actress - Drama	The Rainmaker	Nominated	[21]
1959		Suddenly, Last Summer	Nominated	[21]
1962		Long Day's Journey into Night	Nominated	[21]
1967		Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Nominated	[21]
1968		The Lion in Winter	Nominated	[21]
1981		On Golden Pond	Nominated	[21]
1992	Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film	The Man Upstairs	Nominated	[21]

Grammy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1988	Best Spoken Word Album	Lincoln Portrait	Nominated	[22]
1992		Me: Stories of My Life	Nominated	[23]

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1979	Lifetime Achievement Award	—	Won	[24]
1994	Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie	One Christmas	Nominated	[25]

Tony Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1970	Best Actress in a Musical	Coco	Nominated	[26]
1982	Best Actress in a Play	The West Side Waltz	Nominated	[27]

Festival awards

Organizations	Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
Venice Film Festival	1934	Volpi Cup for Best Actress	Little Women	Won
Cannes Film Festival	1962	Best Actress	Long Day's Journey into Night	Won
Montréal World Film Festival	1984	Special Prize of the Jury	Grace Quigley	Won

Critics awards

Organizations	Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
New York Film Critics Circle	1940	Best Actress	The Philadelphia Story	Won
Mexican Cinema Journalists	1965	Best Foreign Actress	Long Day's Journey Into Night	Won
Kansas City Film Critics Circle	1973	Best Actress	The Trojan Women	Won

Miscellaneous awards

Organizations	Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
American Movie Award	1982	Best Actress	On Golden Pond	Won
David di Donatello Award	1968	Best Foreign Actress	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Won
People's Choice Awards	1976	Favorite Motion Picture Actress	—	Won
	1983		—	Won
Laurel Awards	1960	Top Female Dramatic Performance	Suddenly, Last Summer	Nominated
	1963		Long Day's Journey into Night	Nominated
	1970		The Lion in Winter	Won
	Top Female Star	—	Won
	1971	Top Female Star	—	Won
Golden Apple Awards	1975	Female Star of the Year	—	Won
	1982		—	Won

Honorary awards

Organizations	Year	Award	Result	Ref.
Harvard University	1958	Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year	Honored
Hollywood Walk of Fame	1960	Motion Picture Star	Honored
American Theater Hall of Fame	1979	Induction	Honored	[28]
Screen Actors Guild Awards	1979	Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award	Honored	[29]
American Humanist Association	1985	Humanist Arts Award	Honored
Council of Fashion Designers of America	1985	Lifetime Achievement Award	Honored
American Comedy Awards	1989	Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy	Honored
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts	1990	Kennedy Center Honors	Honored

See also

• Katharine Hepburn film and theatre credits