List of awards and nominations received by William Wyler

This article is a List of awards and nominations received by William Wyler

William Wyler publicity portrait

Known for his work in numerous genres over five decades he has received numerous award accolades including three Academy Awards. He holds a record twelve nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director. For his work Wyler was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award, and the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. Wyler went on to win the Academy Award for Best Director three times, those being for Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Ben-Hur (1959), all of which also won for Best Picture. He was Oscar-nominated for Dodsworth (1936), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), The Heiress (1949), Detective Story (1952), Roman Holiday (1953), Friendly Persuasion (1956), and The Collector (1965).

Major associations

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1936	Best Director	Dodsworth	Nominated	[1]
1939		Wuthering Heights	Nominated	[2]
1940		The Letter	Nominated	[3]
1941		The Little Foxes	Nominated	[4]
1942		Mrs. Miniver	Won	[5]
1946		The Best Years of Our Lives	Won	[6]
1949		The Heiress	Nominated	[7]
1951		Detective Story	Nominated	[8]
1953	Best Picture	Roman Holiday	Nominated	[9]
	Best Director		Nominated
1956	Best Picture	Friendly Persuasion	Nominated	[10]
	Best Director		Nominated
1959		Ben-Hur	Won	[11]
1965		The Collector	Nominated	[12]
	Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award	—	Honored

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
1947	Best Film from Any Source	The Best Years of Our Lives	Won	[13]
1951		Detective Story	Nominated	[14]
1952		Carrie	Nominated	[15]
1953		Roman Holiday	Nominated	[16]
1959		Ben-Hur	Won	[17]
		The Big Country	Nominated

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1959	Best Director	Ben-Hur	Won
1961		The Children's Hour	Nominated
1965		The Collector	Nominated
1968		Funny Girl	Nominated

Other awards

Cannes Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1952	Grand Prix	Detective Story	Nominated
1957	Palme d'Or	Friendly Persuasion	Won
1965		The Collector	Nominated

Directors Guild of America Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1952	Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Detective Story	Nominated
1954		Roman Holiday	Nominated
1957		Friendly Persuasion	Nominated
1959		The Big Country	Nominated
1960		Ben-Hur	Won
1962		The Children's Hour	Nominated
1966	Lifetime Achievement Award		Received
1969	Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Funny Girl	Nominated

National Board of Review

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1946	Best Director	The Best Years of Our Lives	Won
1955		The Desperate Hours	Won

New York Film Critics Circle

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1936	Best Director	Dodsworth	Nominated
1940		The Letter	Nominated
1946		The Best Years of Our Lives	Won
1955		The Desperate Hours	Nominated
1959		Ben-Hur	Nominated

Venice International Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1938	Best Foreign Film	Jezebel	Nominated
	Special Recommendation		Won
1952	Golden Lion	Carrie	Nominated
1953		Roman Holiday	Nominated

Direction for Oscar-related performances

Year	Performer	Film	Result
Academy Award for Best Actor
1937	Walter Huston	Dodsworth	Nominated
1940	Laurence Olivier	Wuthering Heights	Nominated
1943	Walter Pidgeon	Mrs. Miniver	Nominated
1947	Fredric March	The Best Years of Our Lives	Won
1960	Charlton Heston	Ben-Hur	Won
Academy Award for Best Actress
1939	Bette Davis	Jezebel	Won
1941		The Letter	Nominated
1942		The Little Foxes	Nominated
1943	Greer Garson	Mrs. Miniver	Won
1950	Olivia de Havilland	The Heiress	Won
1952	Eleanor Parker	Detective Story	Nominated
1954	Audrey Hepburn	Roman Holiday	Won
1966	Samantha Eggar	The Collector	Nominated
1969	Barbra Streisand	Funny Girl	Won
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1937	Walter Brennan	Come and Get It	Won
1941		The Westerner	Won
	James Stephenson	The Letter	Nominated
1943	Henry Travers	Mrs. Miniver	Nominated
1947	Harold Russell	The Best Years of Our Lives	Won[a]
1950	Ralph Richardson	The Heiress	Nominated
1954	Eddie Albert	Roman Holiday	Nominated
1957	Anthony Perkins	Friendly Persuasion	Nominated
1959	Burl Ives	The Big Country	Won
1960	Hugh Griffith	Ben-Hur	Won
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1937	Bonita Granville	These Three	Nominated
	Maria Ouspenskaya	Dodsworth	Nominated
1938	Claire Trevor	Dead End	Nominated
1939	Fay Bainter	Jezebel	Won
1940	Geraldine Fitzgerald	Wuthering Heights	Nominated
1942	Patricia Collinge	The Little Foxes	Nominated
	Teresa Wright		Nominated
1943		Mrs. Miniver	Won
	May Whitty		Nominated
1952	Lee Grant	Detective Story	Nominated
1962	Fay Bainter	The Children's Hour	Nominated
1969	Kay Medford	Funny Girl	Nominated

See also

• William Wyler filmography

Notes

1. In addition to his competitive acting category win, Harold Russell also received a special Academy Honorary Award for his performance and wartime service. This thus renders him the only actor in Academy Awards history to earn two Oscars for the same performance.