Right from the beginning of Shelley Winters career she has been praised for her work and on this page I am going to list all of the awards that I have knowledge of that she has received or been nominated for.Awards and Nominations
RED= Did
not win the award
GREEN= Won
the award
The Academy Awards (Oscars)
March 20, 1951-Nominated-Best Actress (A Place in the Sun)
"I'll never let
myself in for another emotional experience like that. Ye Gods, I almost
had a heart attack"
-Shelley Winters 1951,
on not winning the Oscar
April 4, 1959-Won-Best
Supporting Actress (The Diary of Anne Frank)
April 18, 1965-Won-Best
Supporting Actress (A Patch of Blue) (read
Shelley's acceptance speech)
March 27, 1972-Nominated-Best
Supporting Actress (The Poseidon Adventure)
Here is a picture of Shelley
at the 1997 Academy Awards, along with Red Buttons
Here are pictures taken from the TV of Shelley
during the BEST ACTORS/ACTRESS of the past 70 years presentation
The Golden Globes
1965-Nominated-Best
Supporting Actress (Alfie)
1972-Won-Best Supporting
Actress-Motion Picture (The Poseidon Adventure)
1976-Nominated-Best
Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role (Next Stop, Greenwich Village)
British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards (BAFTA)
1973-Nominated-Best
Supporting Actress (The Poseidon Adventure)
1978-Nominated-Best
Supporting Actress (Next Stop, Greenwich Village)
The Emmy Awards
Now of course Shelley is a great movie star but she has also been nominated and won for her many TV appearances.
1964-Won-Outstanding
Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role-"Bob Hope Presents the
Chrysler Theater" (playing Jenny Dworak in
episode "Two Is The Number)
1966-Nominated-Outstanding
Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role-"Bob Hope Presents the
Chrysler Theater" ( playing Edith in episode
"Back to Back")
1975-Nominated-Outstanding
Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role-"McCloud" (
for episode "The Barefoot Girls of Bleecker Street")
The Laurel Awards
An Award given out by Motion Picture Exhibitor Magazine from 1958-1966. The Award is known as the Golden Laurel
1966-Won-Supporting
Performance, Female- "A Patch of Plue"
1960-Won-Top Female
Supporting Performace- "The Diary of Anne Frank"
The New York Film Critics Awards
This is an award I guess given by the NY film Critics, and all this info is from www.allmovies.com and I don't know if its true but I will put it here anyways. I don't know if they are wins or Nominations so I will leave them black
1951-New York Film
Critics Award-Best Actress-A Place in the Sun
1969-New York Film
Critics Award-Best Supporting Actress-??Unknown
1976-New York Film
Critics Award-Best Supporting Actress-Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Other Awards
Italian Oscar-David of Donatelo- for the movie: Piccolo, Piccolo, Borghese (1977)
The Venice Film Festival- Special Jury Prize- For Enseble Acting in 1954 for Executive Suite
Lifetime Achievement Awards-Hollywood Film Festival-August 10, 1998
In accepting her honor,
Ms. Winters said, "This award is bigger
than the Oscars!
Its about time Hollywood started to pay less
attention to special
effects and violence, and more attention to
human beings and
relationships."
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