List of awards and nominations received by Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg awards and nominations
	Spielberg at 2017 San Diego Comic-Con for Ready Player One
Award
Awards and nominations
Award	Wins
Totals
Wins	155
Nominations	317
	Note Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.;

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Steven Spielberg.

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Steven Spielberg is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He began his career in the New Hollywood era and is currently the most commercially successful director. Spielberg is recipient of various awards including three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, twelve Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, three Directors Guild of America Awards, and seven Producers Guild of America Awards.

Spielberg has received nine nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director making him the third most-nominated director behind Martin Scorsese (10) and William Wyler (12). Spielberg won this category twice for his holocaust epic Schindler's List (1993) and the World War II drama Saving Private Ryan (1998). He holds the record for most nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture with 13 nods for the science-fiction drama E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the period drama The Color Purple (1985), Schindler's List (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), the war dramas Munich (2005), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), and War Horse (2011), the historical epics Lincoln (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017), the musical West Side Story (2021), the coming-of-age drama The Fabelmans (2022), and the romance drama Maestro (2023).

For his work on television, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for A Pinky and the Brain Christmas (1995), and three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series for the HBO war drama series Band of Brothers (2001), the science-fiction series Taken (2003), and the HBO war drama series The Pacific (2010). He also won seven Daytime Emmy Awards for producing the animated series Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Freakazoid!, Pinky and the Brain, and Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain. As a producer for productions Broadway he was nominated twice for the Tony Award for Best Musical for Water for Elephants (2024) and Death Becomes Her (2025).

Over his career, Spielberg has received various honors and honorary awards including the BAFTA Fellowship in 1986, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1987, a Career Golden Lion in 1993, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, the Honorary César in 1995, the Directors Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000, a Motion Picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2009, and the Honorary Golden Bear in 2023. He was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2015 and the National Medal of Arts in 2024 from President Joe Biden. He was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2001, and was made both a Knight and Officer of the France's Legion of Honour in 2004 and 2008, respectively.

[1] Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

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Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
1976	Best Direction	Jaws	Nominated	^[16]
1979	Best Direction	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Nominated	^[17]
1979	Best Screenplay	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Nominated
1983	Best Film	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Nominated	^[18]
1983	Best Direction	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Nominated
1994	Best Film	Schindler's List	Won	^[19]
1994	Best Direction	Schindler's List	Won
1999	Best Film	Saving Private Ryan	Nominated	^[20]
1999	Best Direction	Saving Private Ryan	Nominated
2012	Best Animated Film	The Adventures of Tintin	Nominated	^[21]
2013	Best Film	Lincoln	Nominated	^[22]
2016	Best Film	Bridge of Spies	Nominated	^[23]
2016	Best Direction	Bridge of Spies	Nominated
2023	Best Original Screenplay^[a]	The Fabelmans	Nominated
British Academy Games Awards
2009	Best Casual Game	Boom Blox	Won

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
Primetime Emmy Awards
1986	Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series	Amazing Stories: The Mission	Nominated
1991	Outstanding Animated Program	Tiny Toon Adventures: The Looney Beginning	Nominated
1995		Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery	Nominated
1996		A Pinky & the Brain Christmas	Won
2002	Outstanding Non-Fiction Special	We Stand Alone Together	Nominated
2002	Outstanding Limited Series	Band of Brothers	Won
2003		Taken	Won
2006		Into the West	Nominated
2010		The Pacific	Won
2016	Outstanding Television Movie	All the Way	Nominated
2021	Outstanding Television Movie	Oslo	Nominated
Daytime Emmy Award
1991	Outstanding Children's Animated Program	Tiny Toon Adventures	Won
1992			Nominated
1993			Won
1994		Animaniacs	Nominated
1995			Nominated
1996			Won
1997			Won
	Outstanding Special Class Animated Program	Freakazoid!	Won
	Outstanding Children's Animated Program	Pinky and the Brain	Nominated
1998		Pinky and the Brain	Nominated
1998		Animaniacs	Nominated
1999		Animaniacs	Nominated
	Outstanding Special Class Animated Program	Pinky and the Brain	Won
	Outstanding Children's Animated Program	Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain	Nominated
2000	Outstanding Children's Animated Program	Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain	Won
International Emmy Awards
2006	Founders Honorary Award		Honored

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1976	Best Director – Motion Picture	Jaws	Nominated	^[24]
1978	Best Director – Motion Picture	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Nominated
1978	Best Screenplay – Motion Picture	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Nominated
1982	Best Director – Motion Picture	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Nominated
1983		E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Nominated
1986		The Color Purple	Nominated
1994		Schindler's List	Won
1998		Amistad	Nominated
1999		Saving Private Ryan	Won
2002		A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Nominated
2002	Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film	Band of Brothers	Won
2003	Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film	Taken	Nominated
2006	Best Director – Motion Picture	Munich	Nominated
2006	Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film	Into the West	Nominated
2011	Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film	The Pacific	Nominated
2013	Best Director – Motion Picture	Lincoln	Nominated
2018		The Post	Nominated
2022		West Side Story	Nominated
2023		The Fabelmans	Won
2023	Best Screenplay – Motion Picture^[a]	The Fabelmans	Nominated

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2024	Best Musical	Water for Elephants	Nominated	^[25]
2025	Best Musical	Death Becomes Her	Nominated

Organizations	Year	Category	Work	Result
Directors Guild of America Awards	1975	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures	Jaws	Nominated
	1977		Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Nominated
	1981		Raiders of the Lost Ark	Nominated
	1982		E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Nominated
	1985		The Color Purple	Won
	1987		Empire of the Sun	Nominated
	1993		Schindler's List	Won
	1997		Amistad	Nominated
	1998		Saving Private Ryan	Won
	2005		Munich	Nominated
	2012		Lincoln	Nominated
	2021		West Side Story	Nominated
	2022		The Fabelmans	Nominated
Producers Guild of America Awards	1993	Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures	Schindler's List	Won
	1997		Amistad	Nominated
	1998		Saving Private Ryan	Won
	1998	Vision Award	Amistad	Won
	2000	PGA Hall of Fame – Motion Pictures		Won
	2001	Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television	Band of Brothers	Won
	2005		Into the West	Nominated
	2010		The Pacific	Won
	2011	Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures	War Horse	Nominated
	2011	Best Animated Theatrical Motion Picture	The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn	Won
	2012	Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures	Lincoln	Nominated
	2015		Bridge of Spies	Nominated
	2017		The Post	Nominated
	2021		West Side Story	Nominated
	2023		The Fabelmans	Nominated
Writers Guild of America Awards	1974	Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen	The Sugarland Express	Nominated
	1977	Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Nominated
	2023	Best Original Screenplay	The Fabelmans	Nominated

List of awards and nominations received by Steven Spielberg

Major associations

Academy Awards

BAFTA Awards

Critics' Choice Awards

Emmy Awards

Golden Globe Awards

Tony Awards

Guild awards

Miscellaneous awards

Critics awards

Honors and achievements

Directed Academy Award performances

Notes

References

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