+List of Spencer Tracy awards Spencer Tracy Award Wins NominationsAcademy AwardsBAFTA AwardsGolden Globe AwardsCannes Film Festival AwardsOverall

Spencer Tracy (1900–1967) was an American actor. He appeared in 75 films from 1930 to 1967, during which time he received several awards and nominations from the industry. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Actor, a record he holds with Laurence Olivier, and won two: for Captains Courageous (1937), and Boys Town (1938). He was the first person to win consecutive awards in the Best Actor category, and this would not be matched until Tom Hanks received consecutive Best Actor awards in 1993 and 1994. Tracy received five British Academy Film Award nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and four Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. He won each of those awards once. He was also the recipient of the Best Actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor.

Awards and nominations Academy Awards YearCategoryFilmResultLost to 1936Best Actor San Francisco Paul Muni For The Story of Louis Pasteur 1937 Captains Courageous 1938 Boys Town 1950 Father of the Bride rowspan="6" José Ferrer For Cyrano de Bergerac 1955 Bad Day at Black Rock Ernest Borgnine For Marty 1958 The Old Man and the Sea David Niven For Separate Tables 1960 Inherit the Wind Burt Lancaster For Elmer Gantry 1961 Judgment at Nuremberg Maximilian Schell For Judgment at Nuremberg 1967 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Rod Steiger For In the Heat of the Night

BAFTA Award YearCategoryFilmResultLost to 1953Best Actor The Actress rowspan="4" Marlon Brando For Julius Caesar 1956 The Mountain François Périer For Gervaise 1958 The Last Hurrah Sidney Poitier For The Defiant Ones 1960 Inherit the Wind Jack Lemmon For The Apartment 1968 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Golden Globe YearCategoryFilmResultLost to 1953Best Actor – Drama The Actress 1958 The Old Man and the Sea rowspan="3" David Niven For Separate Tables 1960 Inherit the Wind Burt Lancaster For Elmer Gantry 1967 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Rod Steiger For In the Heat of the Night

Cannes Film Festival YearCategoryFilmResultLost to 1955 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor Bad Day at Black Rock

See also

Spencer Tracy filmography

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