List of awards and nominations received by Neil Simon

This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Neil Simon.

Neil Simon was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He has received numerous accolades including a Pulitzer Prize, four Tony Awards and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for four Academy Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. He has received several honorary awards such as the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1983, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995 and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006.

Major associations[edit]

Academy Awards[edit]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1968	Best Adapted Screenplay	The Odd Couple	Nominated	^[1]
1975	Best Adapted Screenplay	The Sunshine Boys	Nominated	^[1]
1977	Best Original Screenplay	The Goodbye Girl	Nominated	^[1]
1978	Best Adapted Screenplay	California Suite	Nominated	^[1]

Emmy Awards[edit]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1957	Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special	Caesar's Hour	Nominated	^[2]
1958	Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special	Caesar's Hour	Nominated	^[2]
1992	Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Special	Broadway Bound	Nominated	^[2]
2001	Outstanding Television Movie	Laughter on the 23rd Floor	Nominated	^[2]

Tony Awards[edit]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1963	Best Musical	Little Me	Nominated	^[3]
1964	Best Play	Barefoot in the Park	Nominated	^[3]
1965	Best Play	The Odd Couple	Nominated	^[3]
1965	Best Author	The Odd Couple	Won	^[3]
1968	Best Play	Plaza Suite	Nominated	^[3]
1970		Last of the Red Hot Lovers	Nominated	^[3]
1972		The Prisoner of Second Avenue	Nominated	^[3]
1973		The Sunshine Boys	Nominated	^[3]
1975	Special Tony	—	Won	^[4]
1978	Best Play	Chapter Two	Nominated	^[3]
1979	Best Book of a Musical	They're Playing Our Song	Nominated	^[3]
1985	Best Play	Biloxi Blues	Won	^[3]
1987		Broadway Bound	Nominated	^[3]
1991		Lost in Yonkers	Won	^[3]

Golden Globe Awards[edit]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1972	Best Screenplay – Motion Picture	The Heartbreak Kid	Nominated	^[5]
1975		The Sunshine Boys	Nominated	^[5]
1977		The Goodbye Girl	Won	^[5]

Miscellaneous awards[edit]

American Comedy Awards[edit]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1989	Lifetime Achievement		Received	^[6]

Drama Desk Awards[edit]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1991	Outstanding New Play	Lost in Yonkers	Won	^[7]

Evening Standard Theatre Awards[edit]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1967	Evening Standard Theatre Awards	Sweet Charity	Won	^[8]

New York Drama Critics' Circle[edit]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1965	Best Play	The Odd Couple	Nominated
1983		Brighton Beach Memoirs	Won
1985		Biloxi Blues	Nominated

Outer Critics Circle Award[edit]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1983	Outer Critics Circle Award	Brighton Beach Memoirs	Won	^[6]

Writers Guild of America Awards[edit]

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1968	Best Written Comedy	Barefoot in the Park	Nominated	^[1]
1969	Best Written Comedy	The Odd Couple	Won	^[1]
1970	Best Original Screenplay	The Out-of-Towners	Won	^[1]
1972	Best Adapted Screenplay	The Heartbreak Kid	Nominated	^[1]
1975		The Prisoner of Second Avenue	Nominated	^[7]
1975		The Sunshine Boys	Won	^[1]
1976	Best Original Screenplay	Murder by Death	Nominated	^[1]
1977	Best Original Screenplay	The Goodbye Girl	Nominated	^[1]
1978	Best Adapted Screenplay	California Suite	Nominated	^[1]
1979	Screen Laurel Award	—	Won	^[6]

Honorary accolades[edit]

1968 Sam S. Shubert Award^[8]^[7]
1972 Cue Entertainer of the Year Award^[8]
1981 Doctor of Humane Letters from Hofstra University^[6]
1983 American Theater Hall of Fame^[8]
1986 New York State Governor's Award^[6]
1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama – Lost in Yonkers^[8]
1995 Kennedy Center Honoree^[6]^[9]
2006 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor^[10]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l "Neil Simon". IMDb.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Neil Simon". Television Academy.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m "Neil Simon Tony Awards Info". www.broadwayworld.com.
^ Kreps, Daniel (August 26, 2018). "Neil Simon, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright, Dead at 91".
^ ^a ^b ^c "Neil Simon". www.goldenglobes.com.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Konas, Gary (1997). Neil Simon: A Casebook. Taylor & Francis. pp. 1–14. ISBN 9780815321323. Azenberg... has produced every one of Neil Simon's 17 plays since 1973's The Sunshine Boys, with number 18 in the works.
^ ^a ^b ^c Guernsey, Otis L.; Sweet, Jeffrey (1992). The Applause-Best Plays Theater Yearbook, 1990–1991: The Complete Broadway and Off-Broadway Sourcebook. Milwaukee, WI: Applause Books. pp. 183–185. ISBN 978-1557831071.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Brennan, Elizabeth A. & Clarage, Elizabeth C. (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 131–32. ISBN 9781573561112.
^ Gardner, Elysa (August 26, 2018). "America's playwright Neil Simon, who wrote 'The Odd Couple' and 'Sweet Charity,' has died". USA Today. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
^ "Neil Simon, Broadway's Master of Comedy, Dies at 91". VOA.

External links[edit]

List of awards and nominations received by Neil Simon at IMDb
List of awards and nominations received by Neil Simon at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
Neil Simon at Curlie
Appearances on C-SPAN
video: "Neil Simon's Broadway" on YouTube, 6 minutes
The Neil Simon Festival
PBS article, American Masters
James Lipton (Winter 1992). "Neil Simon, The Art of Theater No. 10". The Paris Review.

[imdb.com-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l "Neil Simon". IMDb.

[emmys.com-2] "Neil Simon". Television Academy.

[broadwayworld.com-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m "Neil Simon Tony Awards Info". www.broadwayworld.com.

[4] Kreps, Daniel (August 26, 2018). "Neil Simon, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright, Dead at 91".

[goldenglobes.com-5] "Neil Simon". www.goldenglobes.com.

[1997casebook-6] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Konas, Gary (1997). Neil Simon: A Casebook. Taylor & Francis. pp. 1–14. ISBN 9780815321323. Azenberg... has produced every one of Neil Simon's 17 plays since 1973's The Sunshine Boys, with number 18 in the works.

[1991sourcebook-7] Guernsey, Otis L.; Sweet, Jeffrey (1992). The Applause-Best Plays Theater Yearbook, 1990–1991: The Complete Broadway and Off-Broadway Sourcebook. Milwaukee, WI: Applause Books. pp. 183–185. ISBN 978-1557831071.

[pulitzer-8] Brennan, Elizabeth A. & Clarage, Elizabeth C. (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 131–32. ISBN 9781573561112.

[USAToday-9] Gardner, Elysa (August 26, 2018). "America's playwright Neil Simon, who wrote 'The Odd Couple' and 'Sweet Charity,' has died". USA Today. Retrieved August 27, 2018.

[VOA-10] "Neil Simon, Broadway's Master of Comedy, Dies at 91". VOA.

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v t e Neil Simon
Plays	Come Blow Your Horn (1961) Barefoot in the Park (1963) The Odd Couple (1965) The Star-Spangled Girl (1966) Plaza Suite (1968) Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1969) The Gingerbread Lady (1970) The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1971) The Sunshine Boys (1972) The Good Doctor (1973) God's Favorite (1974) California Suite (1976) Chapter Two (1977) I Ought to Be in Pictures (1980) Fools (1981) The Female Odd Couple (1981) Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983) Biloxi Blues (1985) Broadway Bound (1986) Rumors (1988) Lost in Yonkers (1991) Jake's Women (1992) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (1993) London Suite (1995) Proposals (1997) The Dinner Party (2000) 45 Seconds from Broadway (2001) Oscar and Felix: A New Look at the Odd Couple (2002) Rose's Dilemma (2003)
Musicals	Little Me (1962) Sweet Charity (1966) Promises, Promises (1968) They're Playing Our Song (1979) The Goodbye Girl (1993)
Films	After the Fox (1966) Barefoot in the Park (1967) The Odd Couple (1968) The Out-of-Towners (1970) Plaza Suite (1971) Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972) The Heartbreak Kid (1972) The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) The Sunshine Boys (1975) Murder by Death (1976) The Goodbye Girl (1977) The Cheap Detective (1978) California Suite (1978) Chapter Two (1979) Seems Like Old Times (1980) Only When I Laugh (1981) I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982) Max Dugan Returns (1983) The Lonely Guy (1984) The Slugger's Wife (1985) Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986) Biloxi Blues (1988) The Marrying Man (1991) Broadway Bound (1992) Lost in Yonkers (1993) London Suite (1996) The Sunshine Boys (1996) The Odd Couple II (1998) Laughter on the 23rd Floor (2001) The Goodbye Girl (2004)

v t e Neil Simon's The Odd Couple
Films	The Odd Couple (1968) The Odd Couple II (1998)
Television series	The Odd Couple (1970–1975) (episodes) The Oddball Couple (1975) The New Odd Couple (1982–1983) The Odd Couple (2015–2017) (episodes)
Television films	The Odd Couple Together Again