This article is a list of awards and nominations received by Norman Jewison.
Norman Jewison received the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences's Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1999. He received a BAFTA Award and was nominated for 7 Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director three times in three separate decades for In the Heat of the Night (1967), Fiddler on the Roof (1971) and Moonstruck (1987).
The Thalberg award was one of many honours Jewison has been awarded, including Honorary Degrees from Trent, Western Ontario and the University of Toronto, and he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1992. Also in 1992, Jewison received the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts, a companion award of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.
In 1971, he was the subject of the award-winning National Film Board of Canada documentary Norman Jewison, Film Maker. In addition, he has received numerous tributes at Canadian and international film festivals and retrospectives, and has been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Canada's Walk of Fame. In 2001, a park in downtown Toronto was named after him. In 2003, Jewison received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement for his lifetime contribution to film in Canada. On January 30, 2010, Jewison received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of America at the 62nd Annual DGA Awards, held at the Century Plaza in Los Angeles.
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1966 Best Picture The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming 1967 Best Director In the Heat of the Night 1971 Best Picture Fiddler on the Roof Best Director 1984 Best Picture A Soldier's Story 1987 Moonstruck Best Director 1999Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1967 Best Film – Any Source In the Heat of the Night United Nations Award
Emmy Award Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.2002 Outstanding Television Movie Dinner with Friends
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1967Best Director In the Heat of the Night 1971 Fiddler on the Roof 1999 The Hurricane
Industry awards Berlin International Film Festival Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1987 Silver Bear for Best Director Moonstruck
Moscow International Film Festival Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1985 Golden Prize A Soldier's Story
New York Film Critics Circle Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1971 Best Direction Fiddler on the Roof Best Film 1967 Best FilmIn the Heat of the Night Best Direction
Academy Award performances by actors
YearPerformerFilmResultAcademy Award for Best Actor1967Alan ArkinThe Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming1968Rod SteigerIn the Heat of the Night1972Chaim TopolFiddler on the Roof1980Al Pacino...And Justice for All2000Denzel WashingtonThe HurricaneAcademy Award for Best Supporting Actor1972Leonard FreyFiddler on the Roof1985Adolph CaesarA Soldier's Story1988Vincent GardeniaMoonstruckAcademy Award for Best Actress1986Anne BancroftAgnes of God1988CherMoonstruckAcademy Award for Best Supporting Actress1986Meg TillyAgnes of God1988Olympia DukakisMoonstruck
Miscellaneous accolades American Cinema Editors Golden Eddie Award (2008) Directors Guild of Canada Lifetime Achievement Award (2002) Windsor International Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award (2014)
Special honours Ribbon Description Notes Order of Canada (CC) Companion 1992 Officer 1982 Order of Ontario (O. Ont) Member 1989 1939-45 Star For Service with the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II Defence Medal For Service with the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II Canadian Volunteer Service Medal For Service with the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II With Overseas Clasp 1939-45 War Medal For Service with the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal 1992 Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal 2002 Canadian Version of this Medal Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal 2012 Canadian Version of this Medal
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