This article is a list of awards and nominations received by John Travolta.
John Travolta is an American actor who is known for his roles in film and television. Over his career he has received three Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Critics' Choice Award, a Grammy Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. He received the Cannes Film Festival's Honorary Palme d'Or in 2026.
Travolta had a career breakthrough playing young Italian-American Tony Manero living in Brooklyn in Saturday Night Fever (1977), receiving his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The following year, he had another successful film thanks to the role of Danny Zuko in the 1978 musical Grease, earning nominations for a Golden Globe Award and the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for the film's accompanying soundtrack.
After a career downturn in the early 1990s decade, Travolta made a comeback when he played against type as Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's hit Pulp Fiction (1994), for which he received nominations for his second Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He won his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the 1995 gangster comedy film Get Shorty and returned to the musical genre with the 2007 remake of Hairspray, winning the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble.
Travolta portrayed lawyer Robert Shapiro in the television series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016), receiving nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series, while also winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series as an executive producer of the show.
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1977 Best Actor Saturday Night Fever 1994 Pulp Fiction
Actor Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1994 Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role Pulp Fiction 1995 Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture Get Shorty 2007 Hairspray
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result British Academy Film Awards 1994 Best Actor in a Leading Role Pulp Fiction Britannia Awards 1998 Excellence in Film
Critics' Choice Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2007 Best Acting Ensemble Hairspray Critics' Choice Television Awards 2016 Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards 2016 Outstanding Limited Series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie 2021 Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Series Die Hart
Golden Globes Year Category Nominated work Result 1977 Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Saturday Night Fever 1978 Grease World Film Favorites – Male 1994 Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Pulp Fiction 1995 Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Get Shorty 1998 Primary Colors 2007 Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Hairspray 2016 Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story Best Supporting Actor – Television
Grammy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1979 Album of the Year Grease: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Miscellaneous associations Organizations Year Category Work Result AARP Movies for Grownups Awards 2008 Best Grownup Love Story (shared with Christopher Walken) Hairspray 2010 Best Supporting Actor The Taking of Pelham 123 American Comedy Awards 1995 Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture – Leading Role Pulp Fiction 1996 Get Shorty Black Reel Awards 2017 Outstanding Television Movie or Limited Series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 1997 Favorite Actor – Drama Phenomenon 1998 Favorite Actor – Action/Adventure Face/Off 1999 Favorite Actor – Drama A Civil Action World Artist Award 2000 Favorite Actor – Suspense The General's Daughter David di Donatello Awards 1995 Best Foreign Actor Pulp Fiction Golden Apple Awards 1978 Male Star of the Year rowspan="2" 1998 Golden Camera Awards 2011 Best International Actor Golden Raspberry Awards 1984 Worst Actor Staying Alive / Two of a Kind 1986 Perfect 1990 Worst Actor of the Decade The Experts / Perfect / Staying Alive / Two of a Kind 1992 Worst Supporting Actor Shout 2001 Worst Actor Battlefield Earth and Lucky Numbers Worst Screen Couple Battlefield Earth 2002 Worst Actor Domestic Disturbance / Swordfish 2010 Old Dogs Worst Actor of the Decade Battlefield Earth / Domestic Disturbance Lucky Numbers / Old Dogs / Swordfish 2019 Worst Actor Gotti Worst Screen Combo (shared with Kelly Preston) 2020 Worst Actor The Fanatic and Trading Paint Worst Screen Combo Hasty Pudding Theatricals Awards 1981 Man of the Year Hollywood Film Awards 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award 2007 Supporting Actor of the Year Hairspray Ensemble of the Year MTV Movie & TV Awards 1995 Best Male Performance Pulp Fiction Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Samuel L. Jackson) Best Dance Sequence (shared with Uma Thurman) 1996 Best Villain Broken Arrow Best Fight (shared with Christian Slater) 1997 Best Male Performance Phenomenon Best Kiss (shared with Kyra Sedgwick) 1998 Best Male Performance Face/Off Best Villain (shared with Nicolas Cage) Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Nicolas Cage) Palm Springs International Film Festival 2008 Ensemble Cast Award Hairspray Producers Guild of America Awards 2017 Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story Satellite Awards 1999 Best Cast – Motion Picture The Thin Red Line Saturn Awards 1999 Best Actor Face/Off ShoWest Awards 1996 Male Star of the Year Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 1978 Worst Actor Moment by Moment Worst On-Screen Couple (shared with Lily Tomlin) 1997 Worst Actor Mad City 2000 Battlefield Earth Worst On-Screen Couple Worst On-Screen Hairstyle (shared with Forest Whitaker) 2003 Most Annoying Fake Accent (Male) Basic Stockholm International Film Festival 1994 Best Actor Pulp Fiction
Critics associations Year Association Category Nominated work Result 1977 National Board of Review Best Actor Saturday Night Fever National Society of Film Critics Best Actor New York Film Critics Circle Best Actor 1994 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Actor Pulp Fiction 1995 London Film Critics' Circle Actor of the Year National Society of Film Critics Best Actor New York Film Critics Circle Best Actor Get Shorty
Honorary awards Organizations Year Notes Result Chicago International Film Festival 1998 Lifetime Achievement Award Palm Springs International Film Festival 1999 Desert Palm Achievement Award Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2008 Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film San Sebastián International Film Festival 2012 Donostia Award Zurich Film Festival Golden Eye for Lifetime Achievement Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2013 Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema International Indian Film Academy Awards 2014 Outstanding Achievement in International Cinema Cannes Film Festival 2026 Honorary Palme d'Or
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