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| Wins | 32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nominations | 256 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Dustin Hoffman.
Dustin Hoffman is an American actor known for his leading man performances on the stage and screen. In a career spanning over his six decades he received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for two Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Tony Award.
Hoffman won two Academy Awards for Best Actor for his performances as a father going through a divorce in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and as an autistic savant in Rain Man (1988). He was Oscar-nominated for his roles as young man having an affair with an older woman in the coming-of-age film The Graduate (1967), a con man in the drama Midnight Cowboy (1969), comedian Lenny Bruce in biographical film Lenny (1974), an out-of-work actor crossdressing as a female in the comedy Tootsie (1982), and a film producer in the satire Wag the Dog (1997).
For his roles on television, he won two Primetime Emmy Awards including for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his role as Willy Loman in the CBS adaptation of Death of a Salesman (1985). He won the International Emmy Award for Best Actor for Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (2016). He also acted in a leading role in the HBO drama series Luck (2011–2012).
On stage, Hoffman earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as Shylock in the Broadway revival of William Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice (1990). He won three Drama Desk Awards for his performances as Valentine Brose in Eh? (1967), the title role and struggling artist in Jimmy Shine (1969), and Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman (1984). He made his Broadway debut in the Steven Gethers play A Cook for Mr. General (1961) and acted in Frank D. Gilroy play The Subject Was Roses (1964).
Over his career he has received several honorary awards and prizes including the Berlin International Film Festival's Honorary Golden Bear in 1989, the Venice International Film Festival's Career Golden Lion in 1996, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1996, the Britannia Award in 1997, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999, the Honorary César in 2009, and the Kennedy Center Honors Award in 2012. He was given a Film Society at Lincoln Center Gala Tribute in 2005 and a Special Presentation Tribute from the Gotham Awards in 2017.