# List of awards and nominations received by Angela Lansbury

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The following is a List of awards and nominations received by Dame Angela Lansbury.
Dame Angela Lansbury (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was a British-American actress known for her extensive work on stage and screen. Lansbury has received numerous accolades including an Academy Honorary Award, six Golden Globe Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and five Tony Awards as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award, 18 Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She is one of few performers who have received nominations for all EGOT awards — Emmy, Grammy, Academy Award (Oscar), and Tony Awards.
Lansbury started her career in film earning three Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her performances as a maid in Gaslight (1944), a tavern singer in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), and a sinister mother in 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).
Lansbury, an icon in musical theatre, won five competitive Tony Award: four for Best Actress in a Musical for playing the title role in Mame (1966), Countess Aurelia in Dear World (1969), Mama Rose in Gypsy (1975), and Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), and one for Best Featured Actress in a Play for playing Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit (2009). She was Tony-nominated for her roles in Deuce (2007), and A Little Night Music (2010). She also earned a Laurence Olivier Award, three Drama Desk Awards, and two Outer Critics Circle Awards.
For her work in television she earned 18 Primetime Emmy Award nominations including a record 12 consecutive nominations for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Jessica Fletcher in the CBS murder-mystery series Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996). The role earned her 10 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama nominations with four wins and a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She was Emmy-nominated for hosting the 41st Tony Awards, and the 43rd Tony Awards.
Lansbury has many awards records including tying with Julie Harris with the most Tony Awards from a performer with five. She was surpassed only by Audra McDonald with six wins. Only five performers have been nominated for all four Tony acting awards, Lansbury, McDonald, Raúl Esparza, Jan Maxwell, and Boyd Gaines. At the Golden Globes, 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.
Lansbury was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2014 for her services to drama. Over her career she has received several honorary awards such as the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1997, the National Medal of Arts in 1997, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2000, the Britannia Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2003, and a Special Tony Award in 2022. Lansbury has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1982 and the Television Hall of Fame in 1996.

## Major associations
### Academy Awards

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

### BAFTA Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| British Academy Film Awards |||||
| 1978 | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Death on the Nile | Nominated |
| 1991 | Special Award | Special Award | Honored |
| Britannia Award |||||
| 2003 | Lifetime Achievement in Television and Film | Lifetime Achievement in Television and Film | Honored |

### Emmy Awards

| 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 (season one) | Nominated |
| Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series | 1986 | Murder, She Wrote (season two) | Nominated |
| Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series | 1987 | Murder, She Wrote (season three) | Nominated |
| Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety Program | 41st Tony Awards | Nominated |
| 1988 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series | Murder, She Wrote (season four) | Nominated |
| 1989 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series | Murder, She Wrote (season five) | Nominated |
| 1990 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series | Murder, She Wrote (season six) | Nominated |
| 1990 | Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety Program | 43rd Tony Awards | Nominated |
| 1991 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series | Murder, She Wrote (episode: "Thursday's Child") | Nominated |
| 1992 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series | Murder, She Wrote (episode: "Night Fears") | Nominated |
| 1993 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series | Murder, She Wrote (episode: "Night of the Coyote") | Nominated |
| 1994 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series | Murder, She Wrote (episode: "A Killing in Cork") | Nominated |
| 1995 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series | Murder, She Wrote (episode: "Dear Deadly") | Nominated |
| 1996 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series | Murder, She Wrote (episode: "Death by Demographics") | 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 (episodes: "Night" + "Day") | Nominated |

### Golden Globe Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1945 | Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Won |
| 1962 | Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | The Manchurian Candidate | Won |
| 1970 | Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | Something for Everyone | Nominated |
| 1971 | Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 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 | Best Actress – Television Series Drama | Murder, She Wrote | Nominated |
| 1986 | Best Actress – Television Series Drama | Murder, She Wrote | Won |
| 1987 | Best Actress – Television Series Drama | Murder, She Wrote | Nominated |
| 1988 | Best Actress – Television Series Drama | Murder, She Wrote | Nominated |
| 1989 | Best Actress – Television Series Drama | Murder, She Wrote | Won |
| 1990 | Best Actress – Television Series Drama | Murder, She Wrote | Nominated |
| 1991 | Best Actress – Television Series Drama | Murder, She Wrote | Won |
| 1992 | Best Actress – Television Series Drama | Murder, She Wrote | Nominated |
| 1994 | Best Actress – Television Series Drama | Murder, She Wrote | Nominated |

### Grammy Awards

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

### Screen Actors Guild Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 1994 | Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series | Murder, She Wrote | Nominated | |
| 1996 | Life Time Achievement Award | Life Time Achievement Award | Honored | |

### Laurence Olivier Awards

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

### Tony Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1966 | Best Actress in a Musical | Mame | Won |
| 1969 | Best Actress in a Musical | Dear World | Won |
| 1975 | Best Actress in a Musical | Gypsy | Won |
| 1979 | Best Actress in a Musical | 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 | Lifetime Achievement Tony Award | Honored |

## Theater awards

| Organizations | Year | Category | Work | Result |
| Drama Desk Awards | 1975 | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Gypsy | Won |
| Drama Desk Awards | 1978 | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | The King and I | Nominated |
| Drama Desk Awards | 1979 | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Won |
| Drama Desk Awards | 2009 | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Blithe Spirit | Won |
| Drama Desk Awards | 2010 | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | A Little Night Music | Nominated |
| Drama Desk Awards | 2012 | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | The Best Man | Nominated |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | 1966 | Outstanding Performance | Mame | Won |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | 2009 | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Blithe Spirit | Won |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | 2010 | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | A Little Night Music | Nominated |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | 2012 | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | The Best Man | Nominated |

## Miscellaneous awards

| Organizations | Year | Category | Work | Result |
| Annie Award | 1997 | Outstanding Female in an Animated Feature | Anastasia | Nominated |
| CableAce Award | 1986 | Actress in a Theatrical or Musical Production | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Won |
| Laurel Award | 1963 | Best Supporting Performance | The Manchurian Candidate | 4th Place |
| National Board of Review | 1962 | Best Supporting Actress | The Manchurian Candidate / All Fall Down | Won |
| National Board of Review | 1978 | Best Supporting Actress | Death on the Nile | Won |
| Palm Springs International Film Festival | 2018 | Best Ensemble | Mary Poppins Returns | Won |
| Satellite Award | 2005 | Best Actress in a Miniseries ot Television Film | The Blackwater Lightship | Nominated |
| Saturn Awards | 1982 | Best Actress | The Mirror Crack'd | Nominated |

## Honorary Awards

| Organizations | Year | Notes | Result |
| Hollywood Walk of Fame | 1960 | Two stars; one for film and one for television | Honored |
| Harvard University | 1968 | Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year | Honored |
| American Theatre Wing | 1982 | American Theatre Hall of Fame Inductee | Honored |
| UCLA Spring Sing | 1988 | George and Ira Gershwin Award | Honored |
| Monarchy of the United Kingdom | 1994 | Queen Elizabeth II appointed her Commander (CBE) for "her services to drama" | Honored |
| Walt Disney Company | 1995 | Disney Legend Award | Honored |
| Women in Film Los Angeles | 1996 | Women in Film Lucy Award | Honored |
| Screen Actors Guild | 1996 | Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award | Honored |
| Academy of Television Arts & Sciences | 1996 | Television Hall of Fame Inductee | Honored |
| Television Critics Association | 1996 | Career Achievement Award | Honored |
| United States of America | 1997 | National Medal of Arts | Honored |
| John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | 2000 | Kennedy Center Honors | Honored |
| The New Dramatists Society | 2000 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Honored |
| The Acting Company | 2002 | First Lifetime Achievement Award | Honored |
| Britannia Award | 2003 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Honored |
| The Actors Fund of America | 2004 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Honored |
| University of Miami | 2008 | Doctor of Humane Letters "honoris causa" degree | Honored |
| New York Drama Critics' Circle | 2009 | Special Citation (for her contribution to the American theater) | Honored |
| Drama League Award | 2009 | The Unique Contribution to the Theatre Award | Honored |
| Drama League Award | 2010 | Drama League Honors | Honored |
| Signature Theatre | 2010 | Sondheim Award | Honored |
| American Theatre Wing | 2010 | Named Honorary Chairman | Honored |
| Monarchy of the United Kingdom | 2014 | Queen Elizabeth II appointed her Dame (DBE) for "her services to charity" | Honored |
| Special Tony Award | 2022 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Honored |