# List of awards and nominations received by Katharine Hepburn

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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.
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.
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 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. Hepburn also holds the record for the longest time span between first and last Oscar nominations, at 48 years. 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 |
| 1932/33 | Best Actress | Morning Glory | Won |
| 1935 | Best Actress | Alice Adams | Nominated |
| 1940 | Best Actress | The Philadelphia Story | Nominated |
| 1942 | Best Actress | Woman of the Year | Nominated |
| 1951 | Best Actress | The African Queen | Nominated |
| 1955 | Best Actress | Summertime | Nominated |
| 1956 | Best Actress | The Rainmaker | Nominated |
| 1959 | Best Actress | Suddenly, Last Summer | Nominated |
| 1962 | Best Actress | Long Day's Journey into Night | Nominated |
| 1967 | Best Actress | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Won |
| 1968 | Best Actress | The Lion in Winter | Won |
| 1981 | Best Actress | On Golden Pond | Won |

### BAFTA Awards

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

### Emmy Awards

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

### Golden Globe Awards

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

### Grammy Awards

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

### Screen Actors Guild Awards

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

### Tony Awards

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

## Festival awards

| Organizations | Year | Category | Work | Result |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| People's Choice Awards | 1983 | Favorite Motion Picture Actress | — | Won |
| Laurel Awards | 1960 | Top Female Dramatic Performance | Suddenly, Last Summer | Nominated |
| Laurel Awards | 1963 | Top Female Dramatic Performance | Long Day's Journey into Night | Nominated |
| Laurel Awards | 1970 | Top Female Dramatic Performance | The Lion in Winter | Won |
| Laurel Awards | Top Female Star | — | Won | |
| Laurel Awards | 1971 | Top Female Star | — | Won |
| Golden Apple Awards | 1975 | Female Star of the Year | — | Won |
| Golden Apple Awards | 1982 | Female Star of the Year | — | Won |

## Honorary awards

| Organizations | Year | Award | Result |
| 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 |
| Screen Actors Guild Awards | 1979 | Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award | Honored |
| 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 |