Global InformationList of awards and nominations received by Bette Davis information
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This is a list of Bette Davis's accolades for both her cinematic and television performances. Her career spans over six decades, from the beginning of the 1930s until the end of the 1980s, shortly before her death.
Her first acting "award" was being cited, alongside Joan Blondell and Ginger Rogers, as one of the "Stars of Tomorrow" in 1932. But it was two years later, when she had her breakthrough performance as Mildred Rogers in Of Human Bondage (1934), when she received her first major awards notice, or lack thereof. When the Academy Award nominations were announced and Davis's name was omitted, there was an uproar. The academy was inundated with write-in votes demanding that she be nominated.[1] Due to that popular demand, they permitted Davis's name to remain a write-in candidate, even though she was not an official nominee. She finished third in the votes.[2] (They allowed this relaxed rule for the following year as well, wherein Paul Muni was a write-in nominee for Black Fury (1935). Despite being unofficial, he finished second in the votes. The academy discontinued this option as of 1936.)[3]
When Muni receive his write-in, Davis received her first Oscar for Best Actress, for the film Dangerous (1935).[4] Three years later, she would win again for Jezebel (1938).[5] Beginning with this film, she next set a record for the most consecutive nominations, receiving five in a row from 1938 through 1942.[6] These succeeding four films were Dark Victory (1939),[7] The Letter (1940),[8] The Little Foxes (1941),[9] and Now, Voyager (1942).[10] Her longstanding record would shortly be tied by Greer Garson, whose span went from 1941 to 1945 (with a win for 1942's Mrs. Miniver).[11] She and Davis had two overlapping years, plus a third year where they were simultaneously nominated when Davis received her next nomination for Mr. Skeffington (1944).[12]
Aside from Academy Awards, Davis also acquired a Volpi Cup for Best Actress in 1937 for both Marked Woman and Kid Galahad—the only recipient in their history to receive the prize for two performances. In addition to that, she received two Best Actress wins from the National Board of Review: one shared prize for both The Old Maid (1939) & Dark Victory; and another two years later, for The Little Foxes.
At this time, Davis had more acting Oscar nominations than anyone else. This streak continued with All About Eve (1950).[13] She also received several other nominations and wins for this performance, including: Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, and her first Golden Globe nomination. Her next Oscar nomination was for The Star (1952).[14]
One decade later, Davis continued receiving recognition for a variety of roles. She earned a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical nomination for Pocketful of Miracles (1961),[15] with adjacent nominations the following year for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) from a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, to a BAFTA for Best Foreign Actress, and finally, an Academy Award for Best Actress—her 10th official of the latter (or 11th, counting the write-in nomination).[16] She thus became the first actress to reach double digits in her nominations tally.[17]
Davis continued receiving several other awards and nominations, including 3rd Place from the Laurel Awards for ...Baby Jane? followed by a win for her performance in Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964).[18]
In her later years, she set her sights more often on television. She received four Primetime Emmy nominations, for an episode of ABC's Wide World of Entertainment retroactive special; plus Little Gloria...Happy at Last (1983); White Mama (1980); and Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (1979), for which she won an Emmy opposite Gena Rowlands.[19]
She was also bestowed an honorary Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes ceremony in 1974;[20] an AFI Life Achievement Award in 1977;[19] and a Kennedy Center Honors in 1987.[19] These are just a few of the vast assortment of honorary awards she has received in addition to the aforementioned major accolades above.
- ^ Soares, André (2011-01-29). "Bette Davis vs. Oscars: Best Actress Snub Changed Academy Award Rules". Alt Film Guide. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
Demands for write-in votes began pouring in. Even nominee Norma Shearer expressed her support for giving Davis a chance.
- ^ "Academy Story: 1930–1939". Oscars.org. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
...the first write-in campaign, seeking to nominate Bette Davis for her performance in Of Human Bondage.
- ^ Levy, Emanuel (2009-03-27). "Oscar Movies: Black Fury (1935), Paul Muni Fighting Union Corruption (Write-In Nomination)". Cinema 24/7. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
Actor: Paul Muni (write-in-candidate)
- ^ Batters, Paul (2019-04-07). "Dangerous (1935): Bette Davis And Her First Best Actress Oscar Performance". Silver Screen Classics. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
...her performance in Dangerous...first Oscar for Best Actress. Hollywood folklore has long claimed...was a consolation for not being nominated for Of Human Bondage.
- ^ Archerd, Army (2001-07-20). Spielberg Buys Bette Davis Oscar at Auction (Broadcast). ABC News. Retrieved 2023-11-06 – via Variety.
The Oscar was part of the actress's memorabilia auctioned to benefit the Bette Davis Foundation, which provides financial aid to young people pursuing acting careers.
- ^ O'Dell, Cary (2023-04-19). "Happy Birthday, Bette Davis–You Jezebel!". Now See Hear!. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
Davis would win her second Best Actress Oscar for Jezebel, and she later received two more nominations under Wyler for The Letter (1940; also for Warner Bros.) and The Little Foxes (1941; for Goldwyn).
- ^ Nugent, Frank S. (1939-04-21). James, Edwin Leland; Merz, Charles (eds.). "THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; Bette Davis Scores New Honors in Dark Victory; George Brent Also Is Seen in the Music Hall Feature—New Italian Picture Opens Here". The New York Times. Sulzberger, Arthur Hays (publ.). eISSN 1553-8095. ISSN 0362-4331. OCLC 1645522. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
Bette Davis won an Academy Award...in Jezebel...award was premature...should have been deferred until her Dark Victory came along,
- ^ Pronovost, Virginie (2017-03-27). "How Bette Davis Mesmerizes us in The Letter". The Wonderful World of Cinema. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
Well, there's that non-written rule that being in a William Wyler film almost assures you a place among the Oscar nominees.
- ^ Burin, Rick (2020-10-21). Viner, Katharine (ed.). "My streaming gem: why you should watch The Little Foxes". The Guardian. eISSN 1756-3224. ISSN 0261-3077. OCLC 60623878. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
Regina is simply Davis's most irresistible monster. It is a performance of startling physicality, full of inspired adornments: the way she acts down her nose at you,
- ^ Spangenberg, Kami (2023-03-17). "Call for Contentment: Now, Voyager". Classic Couple. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
Bette Davis's Oscar-nominated performance held me captive,
- ^ Rogers, Nathaniel (2022-03-22). "Oscar Trivia: Who has had the most consecutive acting nominations?". The Film Experience. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
Both of these runs were over by the mid-'40s. No actors in the subsequent 75+ years have equalled it with consistent every-year-Oscar-favor.
- ^ Novak, Melanie (2021-02-10). "Mr. Skeffington (1944): Ugly Bette". MelanieNovak.com. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
The result was another Oscar nomination, Bette Davis's seventh.
- ^ Elliott, Felicia (2017-03-03). "Re-thinking the 23rd Academy Awards". The Cinessential. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
But it's Bette Davis who will always have my vote.
- ^ Lindsay, Brian (2022-12-05). "The Star retrospective: Bette Davis put the camp in Oscar campaign in the zenith of meta awards movies". AwardsWatch. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
'C'mon, Oscar,' says Bette Davis in The Star (1952), clutching one of her own golden statuettes from the 1930s. 'Let's you and me get drunk!'
- ^ Rittersporn, Helen (2015-12-12). "Pocketful of Miracles". Anchored Scraps. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
Bette Davis was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Motion Picture Musical or Comedy,
- ^ Dibdin, Emma (2017-04-03). Bailey, Glenda (ed.). "Bette Davis Was 'Devastated' By Her 1963 Oscar Loss". Harper's Bazaar. ISSN 0017-7873. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
Davis was the frontrunner for her performance in What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, and winning the award would have made her the first actress ever to win three Oscars.
- ^ Meenan, Devin (2023-03-09). "Bette Davis Claims Joan Crawford Cost Her The Oscar For Her Role As Baby Jane". /Film. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
While Davis was nominated for Best Actress for playing Jane, Crawford got no such nod for Blanche.
- ^ McCallum, J.J. (2022-02-06). "Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte". A Blast from the Passed. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
Bette Davis won the Laurel Award for Best Female Dramatic Performance.
- ^ a b c Smith, J.Y. (1989-10-08). Bradlee, Ben (ed.). "ACTRESS BETTE DAVIS DIES AT 81". The Washington Post. Graham, Donald E. (publ.). ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 2269358. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
In 1977, Miss Davis became the first woman to receive the Life Achievement Award of the American Film Institute; and in 1979, she won an Emmy for the television production Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter. In 1987, she was honored at the Kennedy Center.
- ^ Berk, Phil (2019-08-12). "Ready for my deMille: Profiles in Excellence–Bette Davis, 1974". GoldenGlobes.com. HFPA. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
The Cecil B. deMille-winning actress is generally considered the greatest actress of all time by all who have followed her.