Faye Dunaway is an American actress who has been honored with numerous accolades. Among them, she has won an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, two David di Donatello, while she has received a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She was the first-ever recipient of a Leopard Club Award, which honors film professionals whose work has left a mark on the collective imagination. She received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1996, and the government of France made her an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2011.
Dunaway won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Diana Christensen, a television programming director in the Sidney Lumet-directed political thriller Network (1976). She was Oscar-nominated for her roles as Bonnie Elizabeth Parker in the Arthur Penn's crime drama Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Evelyn Cross-Mulwray, a woman with a dark secret, in the Roman Polanski's neo-noir mystery Chinatown (1974). She won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles in 1968 thanks to Bonnie and Clyde and Hurry Sundown (1967).
For her roles on television, Dunaway won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her role on Columbo (1994). She won two Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for playing Maud Charteris, a fictional American actress in the CBS miniseries Ellis Island (1984) and Wilhelmina Cooper in the HBO television film Gia (1998). For her roles on stage, she won the Theater World Award for her performance as Kathleen Stanton in the William Alfred's play Hogan's Goat (1965).
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1968 Best Actress Bonnie and Clyde 1975 Chinatown 1977 Network
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1968Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Bonnie and Clyde & Hurry Sundown 1975 Best Actress in a Leading Role Chinatown 1978 Network
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1994 Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Columbo (episode: "It's All in the Game")
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1968 New Female Star of the Year – Motion Picture Hurry Sundown Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Bonnie and Clyde 1971 Puzzle of a Downfall Child 1975 Chinatown 1976 Three Days of the Condor 1977 Network 1985 Best Supporting Actress – Television Ellis Island 1988 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Barfly 1994 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Columbo 1999 Best Supporting Actress – Television Gia 2001 Running Mates
Screen Actors Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1998 Outstanding Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie The Twilight of the Golds
Film critics awards Year Category Nominated work Result Kansas City Film Critics 1976 Best Actress Network National Society of Film Critics 1977 Best Actress Network 1982 Mommie Dearest New York Film Critics Circle 1977 Best Actress Network 1981 Mommie Dearest
Festival awards Year Category Nominated work Result Mar del Plata International Film Festival 1968 Special Mention Bonnie and Clyde Chicago International Film Festival 2001 Career Achievement Award Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2001 Honorary Golden Alexander Almería International Short Film Festival 2007 Special Tribute Award Locarno International Film Festival 2013 Leopard Club Award (First-ever recipient) Dallas International Film Festival 2017 Dallas Star Award
Miscellaneous awards CableACE Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1991 Actress in a Movie or Miniseries Cold Sassy Tree 1997 Supporting Actress in a Movie or Miniseries The Twilight of the Golds
David di Donatello Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1968 Best Foreign Actress Bonnie and Clyde 1977 Network
Gemini Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1996 Best Guest Actress in a Dramatic Series Road to Avonlea
Hasty Pudding Theatricals Year Category Nominated work Result 1974 Woman of the Year
Laurel Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1967 Female New Face 1968 Female Star 1968 Female Dramatic Performance Bonnie and Clyde 1970 Female Star
Satellite Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1999 Best Supporting Actress – Television Gia
Theatre World Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1966 Outstanding Debut in a Broadway or Off-Broadway Production Hogan's Goat
Walk of Fame Year Category Nominated work Result 1996 Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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