Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress known for her extensive and dynamic roles on stage and screen. Over her career she received several awards including three Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, four Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Award, a Tony Award and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress prize from the Venice International Film Festival as well as a nomination for a Laurence Olivier Award. She was honored with the Honorary César in 1976 and was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a Motion Picture Star in 1960.
She has appeared in a number of critically acclaimed European and American films and television series. She subsequently received a number of awards, primarily during the 1940s and 1950s, though she did receive some recognition during the 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca, and Alicia Huberman in Notorious, but despite the critical success of both films, she was a notable absence from the nominations they received in their subsequent awards seasons.
The first role for which she received major awards recognition was for her role as a young woman traumatized by the Spanish war in the epic war film For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. That same year she starred as the romantic love interest in the war drama Casablanca (1943). The following year she played a young woman manipulated by her husband in the George Cukor directed psychological thriller Gaslight (1944) for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and the Academy Award for Best Actress. She then played a compassionate nun in the musical dramedy The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) for which she earned her a second consecutive Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. For her portrayals of the title role in the historical epic Joan of Arc (1948) and title role in the historical drama Anastasia (1956) she received further Oscar-nominations winning her second Academy Award for the later.
Outside of the United States, she also received recognition in the United Kingdom for her performance as Gladys Aylward in the British war film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, for which she was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Foreign Actress, though she went on to lose to Simone Signoret for Room at the Top. In Italy, too, she came to prominence for her role in Europe '51, an Italian neorealist film, for which she won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress. In Germany, she received five Bambi Awards, whilst in France, she was awarded an honorary César in 1976. After winning two Academy Awards she won her third, this time in the category of Best Supporting Actress, for 1974's Murder on the Orient Express, based on the Agatha Christie novel of the same name, for which she also received her first and only BAFTA Award. Her Oscar nomination for the Ingmar Bergman tragedy movie Autumn Sonata (1978) was the first she had received for a film in her native language of Swedish.
On the Broadway stage, Bergman played the title role in the Maxwell Anderson play Joan of Lorraine (1947) for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. On the West End stage, she played Helen Lancaster in the N. C. Hunter play Waters of the Moon (1978). On television, she won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her portrayals of The Governess in Startimes production of "The Turn of the Screw" (1960) and the Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir in the television film A Woman Called Golda (1982).
Bergman won three Academy Awards for acting - two for Best Actress, and one for Best Supporting Actress. She remains tied for second place in terms of Oscars won, along with Walter Brennan (all for Best Supporting Actor), Jack Nicholson (two for Best Actor, and one for Best Supporting Actor), Meryl Streep (two for Best Actress, and one for Best Supporting Actress), Daniel Day-Lewis (all for Best Actor), and Frances McDormand (all for Best Actress). Katharine Hepburn still holds the record, with four (all for Best Actress).
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1943 Best Actress For Whom the Bell Tolls 1944 Gaslight 1945 The Bells of St. Mary's 1948 Joan of Arc 1956 Anastasia 1974 Best Supporting Actress Murder on the Orient Express 1978 Best Actress Autumn Sonata
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result British Academy Film Awards 1958 Best Actress in a Leading Role The Inn of the Sixth Happiness 1974 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Murder on the Orient Express
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards 1960 Outstanding Actress in a Limited Series or Movie The Turn of the Screw 1961 Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life 1982 A Woman Called Golda
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1944 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Gaslight 1945 The Bells of St. Mary's 1956 Anastasia 1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness 1958 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Indiscreet 1969 Cactus Flower 1978 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Autumn Sonata 1982 Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture – Television A Woman Called Golda
Laurence Olivier Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1978 Actress of the Year in a Revival Waters of the Moon
Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1947 Best Leading Actress in a Play Joan of Lorraine
Miscellaneous awards Organizations Year Category Nominated work ResultHollywood Women's Press Club1946Sour Apple Award (Least Cooperative Actress) Bambi Awards (Germany) 1950 Best Actress - International Joan of Arc 1951 Under Capricorn Stromboli 1952 Notorious 1953 Europe '51 1954 Journey to Italy 1955 Fear César Awards (France) 1976 Honorary César David di Donatello Awards (Italy) 1957 Best Foreign Actress Anastasia 1979 Best Foreign Actress Autumn Sonata 1982 Golden Medal of the Minister of Tourism Photoplay Awards1947Gold Medal Venice International Film Festival 1952 Volpi Cup for Best Actress Europe '51
Critics' awards Organizations Year Category Nominated work Result Nastro d'Argento Awards 1953 Best Actress Europe '51 Los Angeles Film Critics Association 1978 Best Actress Autumn Sonata National Board of Review Awards 1958 Best Actress The Inn of the Sixth Happiness 1978 Autumn Sonata National Society of Film Critics Awards 1978 Best Actress New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1945 Best Actress The Bells of St. Mary's 1945 Spellbound 1956 Anastasia 1978 Autumn Sonata Online Film & Television Association Awards 1998 OFTA Film Hall of Fame Herself
Other awards All-Time Rankings All-Time Rankings Rank Organizations Category 1st The Metropolist Our top 10 Hollywood actresses from the 1940s 3rd AMC The 50 Greatest Actresses of All Time 4th American Film Institute 100 Years...100 Stars 5th Film School WTF Top 100 Best Hollywood Actresses Of All Time 29th TheWrap The Best Actresses to Ever Win Oscars for Best Actress
Hollywood Walk of Fame Walk of Fame Year Category Result 1960 Hollywood Walk of Fame Star (Motion Picture Category)
See also Ingrid Bergman performances
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