# List of awards and nominations received by Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine (born 1934) is an American actress known for her work in film and television.
MacLaine's acting debut came with Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry (1955). She appeared in Around the World in 80 Days (1956), and Ocean's 11 (1960), before making her star turning role in Billy Wilder's acclaimed drama The Apartment (1960) opposite Jack Lemmon. Her performance brought her much critical acclaim and awards attention with her earning an Academy Award nomination. She won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress, a British Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for her performance. She reunited with Lemmon in Wilder's Irma La Douce (1963), starred in Bob Fosse's Sweet Charity (1969), Hal Ashby's Being There (1979), James L. Brooks' Terms of Endearment (1983), Herbert Ross' Steel Magnolias (1989), Mike Nichols' Postcards from the Edge (1990) and Richard Linklater's Bernie (2011).
Over her career she has earned an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 1998 she earned a Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 2013, President Obama awarded her the Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts.

## Major associations
### Academy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1959 | Best Actress | Some Came Running | Nominated |
| 1961 | Best Actress | The Apartment | Nominated |
| 1964 | Best Actress | Irma la Douce | Nominated |
| 1976 | Best Documentary Feature | The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir | Nominated |
| 1978 | Best Actress | The Turning Point | Nominated |
| 1984 | Best Actress | Terms of Endearment | Won |

### British Academy Film Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1957 | Best Foreign Actress | The Trouble with Harry | Nominated |
| 1960 | Best Foreign Actress | Ask Any Girl | Won |
| 1961 | Best Foreign Actress | The Apartment | Won |
| 1965 | Best Foreign Actress | Irma la Douce / What a Way to Go! | Nominated |
| 1981 | Best Actress | Being There | Nominated |
| 1985 | Best Actress | Terms of Endearment | Nominated |
| 1991 | Best Actress | Postcards from the Edge | Nominated |
| 1991 | Best Supporting Actress | Steel Magnolias | Nominated |

### Golden Globe Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1955 | Most Promising Newcomer - Female | The Trouble with Harry | Won |
| 1959 | Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama | Some Came Running | Nominated |
| 1959 | Special Award - For Most Versatile Actress | — | Won |
| 1960 | Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | Ask Any Girl | Nominated |
| 1961 | Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | The Apartment | Won |
| 1962 | Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama | The Children's Hour | Nominated |
| 1964 | Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | Irma la Douce | Won |
| 1967 | Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | Gambit | Nominated |
| 1968 | Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | Woman Times Seven | Nominated |
| 1970 | Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | Sweet Charity | Nominated |
| 1980 | Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | Being There | Nominated |
| 1984 | Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama | Terms of Endearment | Won |
| 1988 | Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film | Out on a Limb | Nominated |
| 1989 | Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama | Madame Sousatzka | Won |
| 1991 | Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture | Postcards from the Edge | Nominated |
| 1993 | Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | Used People | Nominated |
| 1995 | Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | Guarding Tess | Nominated |
| 1998 | Cecil B. DeMille Award | — | Won |
| 2003 | Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film | Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay | Nominated |
| 2006 | Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture | In Her Shoes | Nominated |
| 2009 | Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film | Coco Chanel | Nominated |

### Primetime Emmy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1975 | Outstanding Variety Special | Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now | Nominated |
| 1976 | Outstanding Variety Special | Gypsy in My Soul | Won |
| 1977 | Outstanding Variety Special | Shirley MacLaine: Where Do We Go from Here? | Nominated |
| 1979 | Outstanding Variety Special | Shirley MacLaine at the Lido | Nominated |
| 1980 | Outstanding Variety Special | Shirley MacLaine...'Every Little Movement' | Nominated |
| 2009 | Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie | Coco Chanel | Nominated |

### Screen Actors Guild Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2009 | Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Television Movie | Coco Chanel | Nominated | |

## Film Festivals
### Venice Film Festival

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 1960 | Volpi Cup for Best Actress | The Apartment | Won | |
| 1988 | Volpi Cup for Best Actress | Madame Sousatzka | Won | |

### Berlin Film Festival

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1959 | Silver Bear for Best Actress | Ask Any Girl | Won |
| 1971 | Silver Bear for Best Actress | Desperate Characters | Won |
| 1999 | Honorary Golden Bear | — | Won |