List of awards and nominations received by Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard is an English playwright known for his works on stage and screen.

He has received various awards including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and Golden Globe Award for his screenplay for Shakespeare in Love (1998).

He has also received five Tony Awards for Best Play for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1968), Travesties (1976), The Real Thing (1984), The Coast of Utopia (2007), and Leopoldstadt (2023).

He has also received three Laurence Olivier Awards for Arcadia (1994), Heroes (2006), and Leopoldstadt (2020).

He also received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Parade's End (2013).

Major associations

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1985	Best Original Screenplay	Brazil	Nominated	^[1]
1998	Best Original Screenplay	Shakespeare in Love	Won	^[2]

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
British Academy Film Award
1988	Best Adapted Screenplay	Empire of the Sun	Nominated	^[3]
1999	Best Original Screenplay	Shakespeare in Love	Won	^[4]
2012	Outstanding British Film	Anna Karenina	Nominated	^[5]
British Academy Television Award
2013	Best Miniseries	Parade's End	Nominated	^[6]
2013	Best Writer - Drama Series	Parade's End	Nominated	^[6]

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1998	Best Screenplay	Shakespeare in Love	Won	^[7]

Primetime Emmy Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie	Parade's End	Nominated	^[8]

Tony Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1968	Best Play	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead	Won
1976		Travesties	Won
1984		The Real Thing	Won
1995		Arcadia	Nominated
2001		The Invention of Love	Nominated
2007		The Coast of Utopia	Won
2008		Rock 'n' Roll	Nominated
2023		Leopoldstadt	Won

Olivier Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1979	Best New Play	Night and Day	Nominated
1979		Undiscovered Country	Nominated
1981		On the Razzle	Nominated
1994		Arcadia	Won
2003		The Coast of Utopia	Nominated
2006	Best New Comedy	Heroes	Won
2007	Best New Play	Rock 'n' Roll	Nominated
2020	Best New Play	Leopoldstadt	Won

Industry awards

Evening Standard Award

1967: Most Promising Playwright (UK)
1972: Jumpers for Best Play, Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award for Best New Play (UK)
1974: Travesties – Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy of the Year (UK)
1978: Night and Day – Evening Standard Award for Best Play (UK)
1982: The Real Thing – Evening Standard Award for Best Play (UK)
1993: Arcadia – Evening Standard Award for Best Play of the Year (UK)
1997: The Invention of Love – Evening Standard Award for Best Play (UK)

London Theatre Critics Award

1967: Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (UK)
1968: Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award for Best New Play (UK) for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
1972: Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award for Best New Play (UK) for Jumpers

Prix Italia

1968: Albert's Bridge – (Italy)^[9]

Honorary awards

Special Honours

1972: Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
1978: Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1978 New Year Honours^[11]
1997: Knight Bachelor in the 1997 Birthday Honours for services to literature^[12]
1999: Induction into American Theater Hall of Fame^[13]
2000: Order of Merit^[14]
2000: Honorary Doctor of Letters, Yale University
2000: Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Cambridge
2002: President of The London Library
2009: Honorary Patronage of the University Philosophical Society, Trinity College Dublin
2013: Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Oxford
2017: Honorary Fellow of the British Academy

Special prizes

1979: Shakespeare Prize of the Hamburg-based Alfred Toepfer Foundation
2007: The Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts (presented on 3 April 2008 at the National Theatre) (UK)
2008: The 2008 Dan David Prize for Creative Rendering of the Past in Theatre (Israeli)
2013: The PEN Pinter Prize for "determination to tell things as they are." (UK)
2013: Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
2015: PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award^[15]
2017: America Award in Literature^[16]
2017: David Cohen Prize^[17]

References

^ "58th Academy Awards". Oscars.org. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
^ "71st Academy Awards". Oscars.org. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
^ "42nd BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
^ "52nd BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
^ "66th BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
^ "2013 BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
^ "1998 Golden Globe Awards". Golden Globe Awards. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
^ "65th Primetime Emmy Awards". Primetime Emmy Awards. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
^ Prix Italia, Winners 1949–2010, RAI Archived 22 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Berlinale: 1999 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
^ "No. 47418". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1977. p. 9.
^ "No. 54794". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1997. p. 2.
^ "On Stage: New class of theater hall of famers". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
^ "No. 55859". The London Gazette. 26 May 2000. p. 5821.
^ "2015 PEN Literary Gala & Free Expression Awards". 27 March 2015.
^ "Green Integer Books". Archived from the original on 29 November 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
^ Alison Flood (8 November 2017). "Tom Stoppard is 'bashful' winner of lifetime achievement award". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 November 2017.

[1] "58th Academy Awards". Oscars.org. Retrieved April 10, 2022.

[2] "71st Academy Awards". Oscars.org. Retrieved April 10, 2022.

[3] "42nd BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved April 10, 2022.

[4] "52nd BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved April 10, 2022.

[5] "66th BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved April 10, 2022.

[6] "2013 BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved April 10, 2022.

[7] "1998 Golden Globe Awards". Golden Globe Awards. Retrieved April 10, 2022.

[8] "65th Primetime Emmy Awards". Primetime Emmy Awards. Retrieved April 10, 2022.

[9] Prix Italia, Winners 1949–2010, RAI Archived 22 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine

[Berlinale-10] "Berlinale: 1999 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 4 February 2012.

[11] "No. 47418". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1977. p. 9.

[12] "No. 54794". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1997. p. 2.

[13] "On Stage: New class of theater hall of famers". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

[14] "No. 55859". The London Gazette. 26 May 2000. p. 5821.

[15] "2015 PEN Literary Gala & Free Expression Awards". 27 March 2015.

[16] "Green Integer Books". Archived from the original on 29 November 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2013.

[17] Alison Flood (8 November 2017). "Tom Stoppard is 'bashful' winner of lifetime achievement award". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 November 2017.

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List of awards and nominations
Stage plays	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Enter a Free Man The Real Inspector Hound After Magritte Jumpers Travesties Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land Professional Foul Every Good Boy Deserves Favour Night and Day Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth 15-Minute Hamlet Undiscovered Country On the Razzle The Real Thing Rough Crossing Dalliance Hapgood Arcadia Indian Ink The Invention of Love The Coast of Utopia Rock 'n' Roll The Hard Problem Leopoldstadt
Radio plays	Artist Descending a Staircase The Dog It Was That Died In the Native State Darkside
Screenplays	The Romantic Englishwoman Three Men in a Boat The Boundary Despair Squaring the Circle Brazil Empire of the Sun Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (also directed) The Russia House Billy Bathgate Poodle Springs Shakespeare in Love Enigma Anna Karenina Parade's End Tulip Fever

Award	Wins	Nominations

Academy Awards	1	2
BAFTA Awards	1	5
Golden Globe Award	1	1
Emmy Awards	0	1
Tony Awards	5	8
Olivier Awards	3	8