page_title: Celeste Holm
section_title: Honors
hierarchical_section_title: Celeste Holm / Honors
caption_attribution_description: Cropped screenshot of Celeste Holm from the trailer for the film Gentleman's Agreement. The trailer made use of a small amount of external footage, including Holm's acceptance of her Academy Award for her performance in the film.
context_page_description: Celeste Holm was an American stage, film and television actress.
  Holm won an Academy Award for her performance in Gentleman's Agreement, and was nominated for her roles in Come to the Stable and All About Eve. She originated the role of Ado Annie in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!.
context_section_description: A life member of The Actors Studio, Holm received numerous honors during her lifetime, including the 1968 Sarah Siddons Award for distinguished achievement in Chicago theatre; she was appointed to the National Arts Council by then-President Ronald Reagan, appointed Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav by King Olav of Norway in 1979, and inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1992. She remained active for social causes as a spokesperson for UNICEF, and for occasional professional engagements.  From 1995 she was Chairman of the Board of Arts Horizons, a not-for-profit arts-in-education organization. In 1995, Holm's was inducted into the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame.
  In 2006, Holm was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the SunDeis Film Festival at Brandeis University.
  Holm was a guest at the 2009 Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention in Aberdeen, Maryland. Some of the movies in which she appeared were screened at the festival, and the unaired television pilot for Meet Me in St. Louis was shown. She received an honorary award during the dinner banquet at the close of the event.
caption: Accepting her Academy Award for Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
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