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Kirk Douglas

Awards

Kirk Douglas

39 wins & 26 nominations

Academy Awards, USA

  • Lust for Life (1956)
    1957 Nominee Oscar
    • Best Actor in a Leading Role
    • Lust for Life
  • Kirk Douglas and Lana Turner in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
    1953 Nominee Oscar
    • Best Actor in a Leading Role
    • The Bad and the Beautiful
  • Kirk Douglas and Marilyn Maxwell in Champion (1949)
    1950 Nominee Oscar
    • Best Actor in a Leading Role
    • Champion
  • Kirk Douglas
    1996 Winner Honorary Award
    For 50 years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community.

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA

  • The Final Countdown (1980)
    1981 Nominee Saturn Award
    • Best Actor
    • The Final Countdown

American Cinema Foundation, USA

  • Kirk Douglas
    1996 Winner Carl Foreman Prize

American Film Institute, USA

  • Kirk Douglas
    1991 Winner Life Achievement Award

Berlin International Film Festival

  • Kirk Douglas
    2001 Winner Honorary Golden Berlin Bear
  • Posse (1975)
    1975 Nominee Golden Berlin Bear
    • Posse

BAFTA Awards

  • Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Carroll O'Connor, Michael Kane, William Schallert, and Bronze Star in Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
    1963 Nominee BAFTA Film Award
    • Best Foreign Actor
    • Lonely Are the Brave
    USA.

CableACE Awards

  • Tales from the Crypt (1989)
    1992 Nominee CableACE
    • Actor in a Dramatic Series
    • Tales from the Crypt
    For episode "Yellow"

César Awards, France

  • Kirk Douglas
    1980 Winner Honorary César

Deauville Film Festival

  • Kirk Douglas
    1999 Winner Lucien Barrière Literary Award
    For the book "Climbing the Mountain: My Search for Meaning (En gravissant la montagne)".

Primetime Emmy Awards

  • Roma Downey, John Dye, and Della Reese in Touched by an Angel (1994)
    2000 Nominee Primetime Emmy
    • Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
    • Touched by an Angel
    For playing: "Ros". For episode: "Bar Mitzvah".
  • Tales from the Crypt (1989)
    1992 Nominee Primetime Emmy
    • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
    • Tales from the Crypt
    For playing: "General Kalthrob". For episode: "Yellow".
  • Amos (1985)
    1986 Nominee Primetime Emmy
    • Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special
    • Amos
    For playing "Amos Lasher".

Fotogramas de Plata

  • The Arrangement (1969)
    1971 Nominee Fotogramas de Plata
    • Best Foreign Performer (Mejor intérprete de cine extranjero)
    • The Arrangement

Golden Apple Awards

  • Kirk Douglas
    1949 Winner Golden Apple
    • Most Cooperative Actor

Golden Camera, Germany

  • Kirk Douglas
    1988 Winner Golden Camera for Lifetime Achievement
    • International

Golden Globes, USA

  • Amos (1985)
    1986 Nominee Golden Globe
    • Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
    • Amos
  • Kirk Douglas
    1968 Winner Cecil B. DeMille Award
  • Lust for Life (1956)
    1957 Winner Golden Globe
    • Best Actor - Drama
    • Lust for Life
  • Kirk Douglas, William Bendix, Frank Faylen, Lee Grant, Horace McMahon, Cathy O'Donnell, Eleanor Parker, and Joseph Wiseman in Detective Story (1951)
    1952 Nominee Golden Globe
    • Best Actor - Drama
    • Detective Story

Hollywood Film Awards

  • Kirk Douglas
    1997 Winner Lifetime Achievement Award

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards

  • Kirk Douglas
    2016 Winner William Holden Lifetime Achievement Award

Laurel Awards

  • Kirk Douglas
    1968 Nominee Golden Laurel
    • Male Star
    15th place.
  • Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Carroll O'Connor, Michael Kane, William Schallert, and Bronze Star in Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
    1963 Nominee Golden Laurel
    • Top Action Performance
    • Lonely Are the Brave
  • Kirk Douglas
    1962 Nominee Golden Laurel
    • Top Male Star
    5th place.
  • Kirk Douglas, Rock Hudson, and Dorothy Malone in The Last Sunset (1961)
    1962 Nominee Golden Laurel
    • Top Action Performance
    • The Last Sunset
    4th place.
  • Kirk Douglas
    1961 Nominee Golden Laurel
    • Top Male Star
    7th place.

ICG Publicists Awards

  • Kirk Douglas
    2013 Winner Lifetime Achievement Award

National Board of Review, USA

  • Kirk Douglas
    1988 Winner Career Achievement Award

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

  • Lust for Life (1956)
    1956 Winner NYFCC Award
    • Best Actor
    • Lust for Life

Palm Springs International Film Festival

  • Kirk Douglas
    2005 Winner Lifetime Achievement Award
    Arts & humanities.

PGA Awards

  • Kirk Douglas
    2001 Winner Milestone Award

Photoplay Awards

  • Kirk Douglas and Jan Sterling in Ace in the Hole (1951)
    1951 Winner Photoplay Award
    • Best Performances of the Month (May)
    • Ace in the Hole
  • Kirk Douglas, William Bendix, Frank Faylen, Lee Grant, Horace McMahon, Cathy O'Donnell, Eleanor Parker, and Joseph Wiseman in Detective Story (1951)
    1951 Winner Photoplay Award
    • Best Performances of the Month (December)
    • Detective Story
  • Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Kirk Douglas, and Hoagy Carmichael in Young Man with a Horn (1950)
    1950 Winner Photoplay Award
    • Best Performances of the Month (April)
    • Young Man with a Horn
  • Kirk Douglas and Marilyn Maxwell in Champion (1949)
    1949 Winner Photoplay Award
    • Best Performances of the Month (June)
    • Champion
  • Kirk Douglas and Marilyn Maxwell in Champion (1949)
    1949 Nominee Gold Medal
    • Most Popular Male Star
    • Champion

Razzie Awards

  • Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel, and Farrah Fawcett in Saturn 3 (1980)
    1981 Nominee Razzie Award
    • Worst Actor
    • Saturn 3

San Sebastián International Film Festival

  • Kirk Douglas, Ernest Borgnine, Tony Curtis, and Janet Leigh in The Vikings (1958)
    1958 Winner Zulueta Prize
    • Best Actor
    • The Vikings
    Tied with James Stewart for Vertigo (1958).

Santa Barbara International Film Festival

  • Kirk Douglas
    2007 Winner Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film

Screen Actors Guild Awards

  • Kirk Douglas
    1999 Winner Life Achievement Award

ShoWest Convention, USA

  • Kirk Douglas
    1994 Winner Lifetime Achievement Award

Walk of Fame

  • Kirk Douglas
    1960 Winner Star on the Walk of Fame
    • Motion Picture
    On 8 February 1960. At 6263 Hollywood Blvd.

Wine Country Film Festival

  • Kirk Douglas
    2000 Winner Lifetime Achievement Award

WorldFest Houston

  • Kirk Douglas
    1985 Winner Remi Lifetime Achievement

Writers Guild of America, USA

  • Kirk Douglas
    1991 Winner Meltzer Award
    In recognition of his action in 1960 to ensure that Dalton Trumbo received screen credit for writing Spartacus (1960).

Western Heritage Awards

  • Kirk Douglas
    1984 Winner Hall of Great Western Performers

BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards

  • Kirk Douglas
    2009 Winner Britannia Award
    • Contributions to Worldwide Entertainment

Golden Boot Awards

  • Kirk Douglas
    1999 Winner Golden Boot

Sant Jordi Awards

  • Kirk Douglas and Milly Vitale in The Juggler (1953)
    1957 Winner Special Award
    • The Juggler

CinEuphoria Awards

  • Kirk Douglas
    2018 Winner CinEuphoria
    • Career - Honorary Award

Online Film & Television Association

  • Kirk Douglas
    2014 Winner OFTA Film Hall of Fame
    • Acting

Picturegoer Awards

  • Kirk Douglas, William Bendix, Frank Faylen, Lee Grant, Horace McMahon, Cathy O'Donnell, Eleanor Parker, and Joseph Wiseman in Detective Story (1951)
    1952 Winner Gold Medal
    • Best Actor
    • Detective Story

The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards

  • Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel, and Farrah Fawcett in Saturn 3 (1980)
    1980 Nominee Stinker Award
    • Worst On-Screen Couple
    • Saturn 3
    Shared with: Farrah Fawcett

Gold Derby Awards

  • Kirk Douglas
    2011 Nominee Gold Derby Film Award
    • Life Achievement (Performer)
  • Kirk Douglas
    2007 Nominee Gold Derby Film Award
    • Life Achievement (Performer)

The Kennedy Center Honors

  • Kirk Douglas
    1994 Winner Kennedy Center Honors

New Mexico Film Critics

  • Kirk Douglas
    2018 Winner Glenn Strange Honorary Award

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