WAmerican actor and filmmaker Ben Affleck has received many awards and honors throughout his career. He is the recipient of two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Affleck first gained recognition as a screenwriter for co-writing Good Will Hunting (1997) with Matt Damon, winning both the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay. As an actor, he garnered a Golden Globe nomination and the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival for his performance in Hollywoodland (2006). The film Argo (2012), which he directed, produced, and starred in, earned considerable acclaim and numerous accolades including the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, BAFTA Award for Best Direction, and Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film, as well as the Academy Award for Best Picture, BAFTA Award for Best Film, and Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
WAfrican-American writer and poet Maya Angelou (1928–2014) was honored by universities, literary organizations, government agencies, and special interest groups. Her honors include a Pulitzer Prize nomination for her book of poetry Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie, a Tony Award nomination for her role in the 1973 play Look Away, and three Grammys from five nominations for her spoken-word albums. Beginning in 1982, Angelou held the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
WAmerican poet John Ashbery (1927–2017) received numerous awards, nominations, grants, fellowships, and other honors in his lifetime. He was generally regarded as the most-honored poet of his generation and one of the most-honored American writers of any era.
WJames L. Brooks is an American filmmaker. He is known for his work as a writer-director-producer.
WThe following is a list of awards and nominations received by American actor, writer, director, producer, comedian, and composer Mel Brooks.
WJames Cameron is a Canadian director, producer, screenwriter and editor who has received numerous accolades throughout his career.
WAmerican stand up comedian and actor Dave Chappelle has received numerous awards and honors for his iconic work.
WThe following is a list of awards and nominations received by American comedian Stephen Colbert.
WSofia Coppola is an American filmmaker.
WAmerican standup up comedian, actor, writer, and director Billy Crystal has received numerous awards for his work including five Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and a Drama Desk Award. He has also received multiple Golden Globe Award and Grammy Award nominations. Crystal won his first Primetime Emmy Award in 1989 for his hosting abilities of the 31st Grammy Awards. He won his second Emmy in 1991 for hosting, and writing the material at the 63rd Academy Awards. He received two Grammy Award nominations for his comedy album, You Look Marvelous in 1987, and his Spoken Word Album, Still Foolin' Em in 2013. For his work performing stand-up, writing, acting, directing, and producing, Crystal has received several awards and nominations. Among them are 21 Emmy Award nominations, with six wins. He won a Tony Award, and Drama Desk Award for his one man performance play, 700 Sundays in 2005. In 1991, Crystal was honored by being given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2007, Crystal received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor where he was honored by his friends Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Rob Reiner, Robert DeNiro, Danny DeVito, John Goodman, Jon Lovitz, Jimmy Fallon, Martin Short, Bob Costas and Barbara Walters at the Kennedy Center.
WAmerican singer-songwriter, author and visual artist Bob Dylan has received many accolades throughout his long career as a songwriter and performing artist. Dylan's professional career began in 1961 when he signed with Columbia Records. Fifty-five years later, in 2016, Dylan continued to release new recordings and was the first musician to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
WWilliam Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Since first being published in the late 1970s, Gibson has written more than twenty short stories and nine critically acclaimed novels. His early works are bleak, noir near-future stories about the relationship between humans and technology – a "combination of lowlife and high tech". Several of these garnered critical attention and popular acclaim, receiving Hugo and Nebula Awards nominations in the categories of best short story and best novelette and being featured prominently in the annual Locus Awards reader's poll.
WVince Gilligan is an American director, producer, and screenwriter who has received various awards and nominations, including one British Academy Television Award, one Directors Guild of America Award, one Golden Globe Award, four Primetime Emmy Awards, two Producers Guild of America Awards, and six Writers Guild of America Awards.
WThe following is a list of awards and nominations received by American cartoonist, writer, producer, animator, musician, and voice actor Matt Groening.
WThis is list of awards and nominations received by an Indian poet, lyricist and film director Gulzar.
WSpike Jonze is an American director, screenwriter, producer and actor who has received various awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, two Directors Guild of America Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Grammy Award, and a Writers Guild of America Award.
WCharles Stuart Kaufman is an American screenwriter, producer, director and novelist. He wrote the films Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). He made his directorial debut with Synecdoche, New York (2008), which film critic Roger Ebert called "the best movie of the decade" in 2009. Further directorial work include the stop motion animated film Anomalisa (2015) and I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020).
WStephen King is an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, crime fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television shows, and comic books. King has published 61 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been compiled in book collections.
WFilmmaker John Krasinski has received numerous awards and nominations for acting, screenwriting, producing, and directing in film, theater, television, and streaming.
WThis is a list of awards and nominations received by Greek film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter Yorgos Lanthimos.
WThis article presents the awards and nominations of American film director, producer, writer, and actor Spike Lee.
WThe following is a list of awards and nominations received by American filmmaker Billy Wilder.
WNeil Simon was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He had received four Tony Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
WNoah Baumbach is an American writer, director, and filmmaker. He's known for his films The Squid and the Whale (2005), Frances Ha (2013), and Marriage Story. He is also known with his collaborations with Wes Anderson on the films The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Fantastic Mr. Fox' (2009).
WDavid Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, painter, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design. Indeed, the surreal and in many cases violent elements to his films have earned them the reputation that they "disturb, offend or mystify" their audiences.
WThe following is a list of awards and nominations received by British film director, producer, screenwriter, and video artist Steve McQueen. For his work on the 2008 film Hunger, he won a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer, and he won an Academy Award, BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe for Best Film for his work on the 2013 film 12 Years a Slave.
WThe following is a list of awards and nominations received by Ugandan film director, screenwriter and producer Usama Mukwaya. His major nominations include the African Movie Academy Award.
WJohn Edmund Mulaney is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and producer. He has received numerous award nominations and wins for his work as a writer, and performer on Saturday Night Live. He is also known for his performance in Documentary Now!. He also received great acclaim for his standup special John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special in 2018. He was the creator and star of the short-lived Fox sitcom Mulaney, a semi-autobiographical series about his life. Mulaney also performed as a character called George St. Geegland in a comedic duo with Nick Kroll, most recently in Oh, Hello on Broadway from September 2016 through early 2017. He is also known for his voice acting work as Andrew Glouberman in the Netflix original animated show Big Mouth.
WThe following is a list of awards and nominations received by American writer, director and producer Alexander Payne. Known for the films About Schmidt, Sideways and The Descendants, he has won two Academy Awards, three Golden Globes, a British Academy Film Award and has been nominated for a Grammy.
WAmerican actor, writer, and director Jordan Peele has received a variety of awards and nominations for his work.
WCarl Reiner was an actor, comedian, writer and director of film and television. Over Reiner's long television and film career, he earned numerous awards. From his stand-up comedy albums with Mel Brooks to writing on Your Show of Shows, Caesar's Hour, and The Dick Van Dyke Show, Reiner earned 11 Primetime Emmy Awards and one Grammy Award.
WGene Roddenberry was an American screenwriter and producer of several television series, best known for his work in creating the Star Trek franchise. Before his television writing career, he was a pilot in the 394th Bomb Squadron, 5th Bombardment Group of the Thirteenth Air Force during World War II. During his time in the military, he flew the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, and was awarded both the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross. While working in the Los Angeles Police Department after the war, he began his television writing career, but resigned to concentrate on screenwriting. His first writing award was for an episode of Have Gun – Will Travel entitled "Helen of Abajinan" which won the Writer's Guild of America award for Best Teleplay in 1958. In 1964, he registered the idea with the Writer's Guild which would define the rest of his career—Star Trek.
WGeoff Ryman is a writer of science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, he was also one of the founding members of the Mundane science fiction movement. In 2008 a Mundane SF issue of Interzone magazine was published, guest edited by Geoff Ryman, Julian Todd and Trent Walters. Ryman says he knew he was a writer "before [he] could talk", with his first work published in his Mother's newspaper column at six years of age. He is most well known for his science fiction writing, however his first novel was the fantasy The Warrior Who Carried Life, and his revisionist fantasy Was has been called "his most accomplished work".
WAaron Sorkin is an American writer, director and producer known for his work in film, television and theatre.
WThe following is a list of awards and nominations received by American director, producer, and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino. In 1994, for his work on Pulp Fiction, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and for Best Original Screenplay, winning the latter. While Pulp Fiction was nominated for Best Picture, Tarantino wasn't a listed producer. He was nominated for the same categories in 2009 for Inglourious Basterds, and in 2012 he again won Best Original Screenplay for Django Unchained. He received his first Best Picture nomination for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood due to his producer’s credit.
WChloé Zhao is a Chinese filmmaker known for her films Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015), The Rider (2018), and Nomadland (2020).