Paul Newman

Newman has been nominated for an Academy Award nine times as an actor, in addition to the producer nomination he received for Rachel, Rachel. He was nominated for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Hustler; Hud; Cool Hand Luke; Rachel, Rachel; Absence of Malice; The Verdict; Nobody's Fool; and Road to Perdition. Of his acting nominations, he won once, for his leading role on The Color of Money in 1986. That award came a year after he won an honorary Oscar for his "many and memorable and compelling screen performances." In 1994, the Academy awarded him the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his charity work. In all, he has three Oscar statuettes.

Newman was nominated for five BAFTA Awards, winning once for The Hustler. He won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for The Long, Hot Summer.

In 2005, he won his first ever Emmy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award, for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie, for Empire Falls, which he also produced. He got another Emmy nomination as producer for the miniseries. He was previously nominated for Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie, for Our Town, in 2003; and for Outstanding Director of a Miniseries or TV Movie, for The Shadow Box, in 1980.

In 1969, he won the Golden Globe award for Best Director, for Rachel, Rachel, but failed to get an Academy Award nomination even though the film was nominated for Best Picture. He won the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984.

In 1968, Newman was named "Man of the Year" by Harvard University's performance group, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals.