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This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Orson Welles

Orson Welles was an American film director, actor, writer, and producer who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre. He is considered to be among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. He received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, Peabody Award, and Grammy Award as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award.

He has also received numerous honors including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1975, the British Film Institute Fellowship in 1983, and the Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984. He was inducted into both the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1979, and the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1988. Welles was presented with France's Legion of Honour in 1982.

Major associations

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Academy Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1941 Best Director Citizen Kane Nominated [1]
Best Actor Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Won
1970 Academy Honorary Award Received [2]

BAFTA Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1968 Best Foreign Actor Chimes at Midnight Nominated [3]

Golden Globe Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1981 Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Butterfly Nominated [4]

Grammy Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1971 Best Comedy Album The Begatting of the President Nominated
1976 Best Spoken Word Album Immortal Sherlock Holmes Nominated
1977 Great American Documents Nominated [5]
1979 Citizen Kane Nominated [6]
1980 Orson Welles & Helen Hayes at Their Best Nominated
1981 Obediently Yours Nominated
1982 Donovan's Brain Won [7]
1993 This is Orson Welles Nominated [8][9]

Miscellaneous accolades

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Cannes Film Festival

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1952 Palme d'Or Othello Won [10]
1959 Best Actor Compulsion Won
1966 Palme d'Or Chimes at Midnight Nominated [11]

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1978 Career Achievement Award Orson Welles Received [12]

National Board of Review

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1942 Best Actor Citizen Kane Won [13][14]

New York Film Critics Circle

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1941 Best Picture Citizen Kane Won [15]

Venice Film Festival

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1947 Golden Lion The Stranger Won .[16]
1970 Golden Lion Career Achievement Received [17]

Honorary awards

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Year Association Award Ref.
1933 Chicago Drama League Prize for Twelfth Night Recipient [18]
1945 Interracial Film and Radio Guild Award for Contributions to Interracial Harmony through Radio Recipient [19]
1938 The New York Drama Study Club Award Recipient [20]
1939 Essex County Symphony Society's Achievement Award Recipient [21]
1958 Peabody Award for The Fountain of Youth Recipient [22]
1975 American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient [23]
1979 National Association of Broadcasters Broadcasting Hall of Fame Induction [24]
1982 Order of Commander of the Légion d'honneur Recipient
1983 Académie des Beaux-Arts Inducted
1983 British Film Institute Fellowship Recipient [25]
1984 Directors Guild of America's D. W. Griffith Award Recipient [26]
1984 The Academy of Magical Arts Special Fellowship [27][28]
1985 National Board of Review Career Achievement Award Recipient [29]
1988 National Radio Hall of Fame Inducted [30]

Special recognitions

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  • 1958: Although Universal Pictures did its best to prevent Touch of Evil from being selected for the 1958 Brussels World Film Festival—part of the Expo 58 world's fair—the film received its European premiere and Welles was invited to attend. To his astonishment,[31] Welles collected the two top awards. Touch of Evil received the International Critics Prize, and Welles was recognized for his body of work.[32][33]
  • 1998: In 1998 and 2007, the American Film Institute ranked Citizen Kane as the greatest American movie.[34] These other Welles films were nominated for the AFI list: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, director/producer/screenwriter); The Third Man (1949, actor); Touch of Evil (1958, actor/director/screenwriter); and A Man for All Seasons (1966, actor).[35]
  • 1999: The American Film Institute acknowledged Welles as one of the top 25 male motion picture stars of Classic Hollywood cinema in its survey, AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars.[36]
  • 2002: Welles was voted the greatest film director of all time in two British Film Institute polls, of directors and critics.
  • 2002: A highly divergent genus of Hawaiian spiders Orsonwelles was named in his honor.[37]
  • 2003: A crater on Mars was named in his honor.[38]
  • 2007: A statue of Welles sculpted by Oja Kodar was installed in the city of Split, Croatia.[39]
  • 2013: On February 10, 2013, the Woodstock Opera House in Woodstock, Illinois, dedicated its stage to Welles, honoring the site of his American debut as a professional theatre director.[40]
  • 2015: Throughout 2015, numerous festivals and events observed the 100th anniversary of Welles's birth.[41]
  • 2017: A survey of critical consensus, best-of lists, and historical retrospectives finds Welles to be the second most acclaimed director of all time (behind Alfred Hitchcock).[42]

References

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  1. ^ "Academy Awards Database". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on April 10, 2019. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
  2. ^ Verswijver, Leo (2003). "Movies Were Always Magical": Interviews with 19 Actors, Directors, and Producers from the Hollywood of the 1930s Through the 1950s. McFarland. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-7864-1129-0.
  3. ^ "BAFTA Award Search". BAFTA.org. Archived from the original on May 15, 2018. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
  4. ^ "Orson Welles – Golden Globes". HFPA. Retrieved January 5, 2024.
  5. ^ "Great American Documents". Grammy Search Database. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  6. ^ "Citizen Kane". Grammy Search Database. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  7. ^ "Donovan's Brain". Grammy Search Database. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  8. ^ "Rock to opera, a full list of nominees"; USA Today, January 8, 1993
  9. ^ This is Orson Welles, HarperAudio (1992) ISBN 1-55994-680-6 (audiocassette)
  10. ^ Yagoda, Ben (1992). "Film; Welles's Othello Made Chaos into an Art Form". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 9, 2018. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
  11. ^ Canby, Vincent (1992). "Critic's Notebook Chimes at Midnight Welles's Own Shakespeare". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 9, 2018. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
  12. ^ "4th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards". Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Archived from the original on April 29, 2012. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  13. ^ "Ten Best 1941". National Board of Review Magazine. Vol. XVII, no. 1. National Board of Review. January 1942. p. 4. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
  14. ^ "Ten Best 1941". National Board of Review Magazine. Vol. XVII, no. 1. National Board of Review. January 1942. p. 6. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
  15. ^ "1941 Awards". New York Film Critics Circle. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
  16. ^ "Venice Film Festival 1947 – FilmAffinity". FilmAffinity. Archived from the original on April 18, 2018. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  17. ^ "The awards of the Venice Film Festival". La Biennale di Venezia. Archived from the original on June 7, 2017. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  18. ^ "Amateur Dramatic Groups to Compete for Trophy at Fair". Ruston Daily Leader. United Press. July 7, 1933.
  19. ^ "Straus Given Trophy". Broadcasting, June 4, 1945, page 24.
  20. ^ "'Jitters' Opening Now Due on May 2". The New York Times. April 8, 1938. Archived from the original on August 30, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
  21. ^ "Award to Orson Welles: Stage and Radio Producer Is Honored by Jersey Group". The New York Times. Associated Press. April 8, 1938. Archived from the original on August 3, 2020. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  22. ^ "Fountain of Youth". Peabody Awards. Archived from the original on May 16, 2018. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  23. ^ "The AFI Life Achievement Awards". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on July 9, 2019. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  24. ^ "Past Award Recipients". Broadcasting Hall of Fame. National Association of Broadcasters. Archived from the original on April 4, 2019. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  25. ^ "BFI Fellows". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on September 22, 2018. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
  26. ^ "Orson Welles is Dead at 70; Innovator of Film and Stage". The New York Times. October 11, 1985. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
  27. ^ Larsen, Bill (November 1984). "The Academy of Magical Arts 17th Annual Awards Banquet and Show". Genii. Vol. 48, no. 11. p. 37. Archived from the original on December 5, 2020. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
  28. ^ "Hall of Fame". The Academy of Magical Arts. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
  29. ^ "'1985 Award Winners". National Board of Review. Archived from the original on August 20, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  30. ^ "Orson Welles". National Radio Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on July 24, 2017. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  31. ^ Callow, Simon (2015). Orson Welles: One-Man Band. New York: Viking. p. 277. ISBN 978-0-670-02491-9.
  32. ^ "1958 Brussels World Film Festival". International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI). Archived from the original on May 16, 2018. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  33. ^ Lyons, Leonard (July 10, 1958). "The Lyons Den". The Salt Lake Tribune.
  34. ^ "15 Facts About Orson Welles' Citizen Kane". American Film. Archived from the original on July 16, 2019. Retrieved July 16, 2019.
  35. ^ "AFI's Greatest American Films – Nominees". www.filmsite.org. Archived from the original on July 15, 2019. Retrieved July 16, 2019.
  36. ^ "AFI's 100 Years … 100 Stars". American Film Institute. 1999. Archived from the original on October 25, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
  37. ^ Hormiga, Gustavo (2002). "Orsonwelles, a new genus of giant linyphiid spiders (Araneae) from the Hawaiian Islands" (PDF). Invertebrate Systematics. 16 (3): 369–448. doi:10.1071/IT01026. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 27, 2013. Retrieved September 24, 2014.
  38. ^ "List of awards and nominations received by Orson Welles". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
  39. ^ Ivo Scepanovic (January 17, 2008). "Orson Welles becomes 'Citizen of Split'". SETimes. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014.
  40. ^ "Orson Welles Stage dedicated at Woodstock Opera House". Wellesnet. February 10, 2013. Archived from the original on December 5, 2020. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
  41. ^ "Orson Welles centenary celebrations and film festivals". Wellesnet. March 4, 2013. Archived from the original on May 28, 2015. Retrieved May 7, 2015.
  42. ^ Georgaris, Bill (February 2017). "The 1,000 Greatest Films (Top 250 Directors)". They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?. Archived from the original on August 12, 2015. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
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