# List of awards and nominations received by John Travolta

American actor John Travolta has received numerous accolades throughout his career.
Travolta had a career breakthrough playing young Italian-American Tony Manero living in Brooklyn in Saturday Night Fever (1977), receiving his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The following year, he had another successful film thanks to the role of Danny Zuko in the 1978 musical Grease, earning nominations for a Golden Globe Award and the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for the film's accompanying soundtrack.
After a career downturn in the early 1990s decade, Travolta made a comeback when he played against type as Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's hit Pulp Fiction (1994), for which he received nominations for his second Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He won his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the 1995 gangster comedy film Get Shorty and returned to the musical genre with the 2007 remake of Hairspray, winning the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble.
Travolta portrayed lawyer Robert Shapiro in the television series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016), receiving nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series, while also winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series as an executive producer of the show.

## Major associations
### Academy Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
| 1978 | Saturday Night Fever | Best Actor | Nominated | |
| 1995 | Pulp Fiction | Best Actor | Nominated | |

### BAFTA Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| British Academy Film Awards |||||
| 1995 | Pulp Fiction | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Nominated |
| Britannia Awards |||||
| 1998 | — | Excellence in Film | Honored |

### Golden Globe Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 1978 | Saturday Night Fever | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nominated |
| 1979 | Grease | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nominated |
| 1979 | — | World Film Favorites – Male | Won |
| 1995 | Pulp Fiction | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | Nominated |
| 1996 | Get Shorty | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Won |
| 1999 | Primary Colors | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nominated |
| 2008 | Hairspray | Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Nominated |
| 2017 | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film | Won |
| 2017 | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film | Nominated |

### Grammy Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
| 1979 | Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture | Album of the Year | Nominated | |

### Primetime Emmy Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 2016 | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Outstanding Limited Series | Won |
| 2016 | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie | Nominated |
| 2021 | Die Hart | Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series | Nominated |

### Screen Actors Guild Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 1995 | Pulp Fiction | Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role | Nominated |
| 1996 | Get Shorty | Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | Nominated |
| 2008 | Hairspray | Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | Nominated |

## Other associations
### AARP Movies for Grownups Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
| 2008 | Hairspray | Best Grownup Love Story (shared with Christopher Walken) | Won | |
| 2010 | The Taking of Pelham 123 | Best Supporting Actor | Nominated | |

### American Comedy Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
| 1995 | Pulp Fiction | Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture – Leading Role | Nominated | |
| 1996 | Get Shorty | Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture – Leading Role | Won | |

### Black Reel Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
| 2017 | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Outstanding Television Movie or Limited Series | Won | |

### Blockbuster Entertainment Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 1997 | Phenomenon | Favorite Actor – Drama | Won |
| 1998 | Face/Off | Favorite Actor – Action/Adventure | Nominated |
| 1999 | A Civil Action | Favorite Actor – Drama | Nominated |
| 1999 | — | World Artist Award | Honored |
| 2000 | The General's Daughter | Favorite Actor – Suspense | Nominated |

### Critics' Choice Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards |||||
| 2008 | Hairspray | Best Acting Ensemble | Won |
| Critics' Choice Television Awards |||||
| 2016 | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Best Supporting Actor in a Movie Made for Television or Limited Series | Nominated |

### David di Donatello Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
| 1995 | Pulp Fiction | Best Foreign Actor | Won | |

### Golden Apple Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
| 1978 | — | Male Star of the Year | Won | |
| 1998 | — | Male Star of the Year | Won | |

### Golden Camera Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
| 2011 | — | Best International Actor | Won | |

### Golden Raspberry Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 1984 | Staying Alive and Two of a Kind | Worst Actor | Nominated |
| 1986 | Perfect | Worst Actor | Nominated |
| 1990 | The Experts, Perfect, Staying Alive and Two of a Kind | Worst Actor of the Decade | Nominated |
| 1992 | Shout | Worst Supporting Actor | Nominated |
| 2001 | Battlefield Earth and Lucky Numbers | Worst Actor | Won |
| 2001 | Battlefield Earth | Worst Screen Couple | Won |
| 2002 | Domestic Disturbance and Swordfish | Worst Actor | Nominated |
| 2010 | Old Dogs | Worst Actor | Nominated |
| 2010 | Battlefield Earth, Domestic Disturbance, Lucky Numbers, Old Dogs and Swordfish | Worst Actor of the Decade | Nominated |
| 2019 | Gotti | Worst Actor | Nominated |
| 2019 | Gotti | Worst Screen Combo (shared with Kelly Preston) | Nominated |
| 2020 | The Fanatic and Trading Paint | Worst Actor | Won |
| 2020 | — | Worst Screen Combo | Nominated |

### Hasty Pudding Theatricals Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
| 1981 | — | Man of the Year | Won | |

### Hollywood Film Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 2004 | — | Lifetime Achievement Award | Honored |
| 2007 | Hairspray | Supporting Actor of the Year | Won |
| 2007 | Hairspray | Ensemble of the Year | Won |

### International Indian Film Academy Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
| 2014 | — | Outstanding Achievement in International Cinema | Honored | |

### MTV Movie & TV Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 1995 | Pulp Fiction | Best Male Performance | Nominated |
| 1995 | Pulp Fiction | Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Samuel L. Jackson) | Nominated |
| 1995 | Pulp Fiction | Best Dance Sequence (shared with Uma Thurman) | Won |
| 1996 | Broken Arrow | Best Villain | Nominated |
| 1996 | Broken Arrow | Best Fight (shared with Christian Slater) | Nominated |
| 1997 | Phenomenon | Best Male Performance | Nominated |
| 1997 | Phenomenon | Best Kiss (shared with Kyra Sedgwick) | Nominated |
| 1998 | Face/Off | Best Male Performance | Nominated |
| 1998 | Face/Off | Best Villain (shared with Nicolas Cage) | Nominated |
| 1998 | Face/Off | Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Nicolas Cage) | Won |

### Producers Guild of America Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
| 2017 | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television | Won | |

### Satellite Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
| 1999 | The Thin Red Line | Best Cast – Motion Picture | Won | |

### Saturn Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
| 1999 | Face/Off | Best Actor | Nominated | |

### ShoWest Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
| 1996 | — | Male Star of the Year | Won | |

### Stinkers Bad Movie Awards

| Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
| 1978 | Moment by Moment | Worst Actor | Nominated |
| 1978 | Moment by Moment | Worst On-Screen Couple (shared with Lily Tomlin) | Won |
| 1997 | Mad City | Worst Actor | Nominated |
| 2000 | Battlefield Earth | Worst Actor | Won |
| 2000 | Battlefield Earth | Worst On-Screen Couple | Won |
| 2000 | Battlefield Earth | Worst On-Screen Hairstyle (shared with Forest Whitaker) | Won |
| 2003 | Basic | Most Annoying Fake Accent (Male) | Nominated |

## Critics associations

| Year | Nominated work | Association | Category | Result |
| 1977 | Saturday Night Fever | National Board of Review | Best Actor | Won |
| 1977 | Saturday Night Fever | National Society of Film Critics | Best Actor | Nominated |
| 1977 | Saturday Night Fever | New York Film Critics Circle | Best Actor | Nominated |
| 1994 | Pulp Fiction | Los Angeles Film Critics Association | Best Actor | Won |
| 1995 | Pulp Fiction | London Film Critics' Circle | Actor of the Year | Won |
| 1995 | Pulp Fiction | National Society of Film Critics | Best Actor | Nominated |
| 1995 | Get Shorty | New York Film Critics Circle | Best Actor | Nominated |

## Film festivals

| Year | Nominated work | Festival | Honor | Result |
| 1994 | Pulp Fiction | Stockholm International Film Festival | Best Actor | Won |
| 1998 | — | Chicago International Film Festival | Lifetime Achievement Award | Honored |
| 1999 | — | Palm Springs International Film Festival | Desert Palm Achievement Award | Honored |
| 2008 | Hairspray | Palm Springs International Film Festival | Ensemble Cast Award | Won |
| 2008 | — | Santa Barbara International Film Festival | Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film | Honored |
| 2012 | — | San Sebastián International Film Festival | Donostia Award | Honored |
| 2012 | — | Zurich Film Festival | Golden Eye for Lifetime Achievement | Honored |
| 2013 | — | Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema | Honored |