The following is a list of awards and nominations received by British-American actress Dame Angela Lansbury .
Lansbury is one of few performers who have received nominations for all EGOT awards — Emmy , Grammy , Academy Award (Oscar), and Tony Awards .
Lansbury, an icon in musical theatre, received seven Tony Award nominations winning five awards for Mame in 1966, Dear World in 1969, Gypsy in 1975, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 1979, and Blithe Spirit in 2009. In 2022 she received the Lifetime Achievement Tony Award . She also earned a Laurence Olivier Award , three Drama Desk Awards , and two Outer Critics Circle Awards .
For her work in film she earned three Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Gaslight (1944), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), and 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). For her work in television she earned 18 Primetime Emmy Award nominations including 12 consecutive nominations for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote (1984-1996). She also received four Golden Globe Awards for Murder, She Wrote . In 1997 she earned a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award , and in 2003 she earned a Britannia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Television and Film.
Major associations [ edit ]
Lansbury was nominated for eighteen Primetime Emmy Awards without a win, including twelve consecutive nominations as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for every season of Murder, She Wrote , the most-nominated performer in this category.
Lansbury won five competitive Tony Awards . She tied with Julie Harris , and was surpassed only by Audra McDonald with six wins for the most Tonys any performer has received. (Both Harris and Lansbury have also been awarded Special Tonys as their sixth non-competitive award.):[2] Lansbury was one of only five performers who have been nominated for all four Tony acting awards, the others being Raúl Esparza , Jan Maxwell , Boyd Gaines , and Audra McDonald .
Theater awards [ edit ]
Year
Category
Nominated work
Result
1966
Outstanding Performance
Mame
Won
2009
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Blithe Spirit
Won
2010
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
A Little Night Music
Nominated
2012
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
The Best Man
Nominated
Film and television awards [ edit ]
Lansbury was nominated for fifteen Golden Globes, and won six times.[3] 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.
Honorary Awards [ edit ]
Kennedy Center Honors , 2000
Lansbury has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame – one for film (north side of the 6600 block of Hollywood Boulevard ) and one for television (west side of the 1500 block of Vine Street )[24]
In 1982, Lansbury was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame .[25] She was also inducted into the Television Hall of Fame of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences , an honour she earned in 1996.[26]
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
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^ Ehren, Christine; Simonson, Robert ; Lefkowitz, David (27 December 2000). "Lansbury Lauded, Blast! Blares at Kennedy Center Honors on CBS, Dec. 27" . Playbill . Archived from the original on 9 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018 .
^ Simonson, Robert (May 6, 2000). "Cronkite, Bacall & Sondheim Pay Tribute to Lansbury at New Dramatists, May 16" . Playbill.com . Archived from the original on December 29, 2008. Retrieved October 26, 2015 .
^ "Angela Lansbury To Receive Acting Company's Lifetime Achievement Award" . Playbill . October 28, 2002. Archived from the original on December 29, 2008. Retrieved October 26, 2015 .
^ "Awards, 2003" Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine bafta.org, accessed April 13, 2015
^ Allen, Morgan (November 1, 2004). "Photo Call: Depp and Lansbury Honored by Actors' Fund at October 30 Gala" . Playbill.com . Archived from the original on December 29, 2008. Retrieved October 26, 2015 .
^ "Award-Winning Actress Angela Lansbury Addresses Theatre Arts Students" . University of Miami . May 8, 2008. Archived from the original on November 15, 2009. Retrieved October 23, 2009 .
^ Gans, Andrew. "75th Annual Drama League Award Nominees Announced" Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine playbill.com, April 21, 2009
^ Ross, Blake (February 9, 2010). "About Last Night: Celebrating Angela Lansbury, With Zeta-Jones, Cariou, Garber, Peters and More" Archived 2010-02-12 at the Wayback Machine . Playbill ; accessed March 17, 2014.
^ Jones, Kenneth (April 12, 2010). "Garber, Mazzie, Danieley and More Celebrate Lansbury in DC Gala April 12" Archived 2014-03-17 at the Wayback Machine . Playbill ; accessed March 17, 2014.
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^ The Guardian : 2014 New Years Honours List Archived 2014-01-11 at the Wayback Machine ; retrieved December 31, 2013.
^ Paulson, Michael (May 23, 2022). "Angela Lansbury Will Receive Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement" . The New York Times . Archived from the original on May 23, 2022. Retrieved May 23, 2022 .
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^ "Angela Lansbury Returns to West End in Tony Winning Performance" . Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Retrieved February 5, 2014 .
^ "Hall of Fame Honorees" Archived 2016-05-01 at the Wayback Machine emmys.com, accessed April 13, 2015
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