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Alan Bennett is an English playwright known for his work film, theatre and television.
He has received various awards for his work in film, television and theatre. For film he earned an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nomination for The Madness of King George (1994). He also received four British Academy Film Award nominations for A Private Function (1984), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), and The Madness of King George (1994), winning Outstanding British Film for the latter. For his work on television he has received eight British Academy Television Awards nominations for Talking Heads (1989), Screen Two (1992), and Talking Heads 2 winning for the latter, in addition to two Best Entertainment Performance wins in the 1960s.
For his work in theatre he has received four competitive Laurence Olivier Awards for his work on the West End. He won for Single Spies in 1990, Talking Heads in 1992, and The History Boys in 2005. That same year he received the Society of London Theatre Special Award. He has also received two Tony Awards for his work on the Broadway stage. He won a Special Tony Award in 1963 for Beyond The Fringe alongside Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore. He also won Best Play for The History Boys in 2005. He also won a Drama Desk Award, five Evening Standard Theatre Awards, three New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, two London Film Critics Circle Awards, and an Outer Critics Circle Award.
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1994 Best Adapted Screenplay The Madness of King George
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.British Academy Film Awards1984 Best Original Screenplay A Private Function 1987 Best Adapted Screenplay Prick Up Your Ears 1995 The Madness of King George Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film British Academy Television Awards 1967Best Light Entertainment Performance1968 1989 Best Actor Talking Heads: A Chip in the Sugar Best Drama Series Talking Heads: A Cream Cracker under the Settee Best Single Drama Talking Heads: A Bed Among the Lentils Talking Heads: A Lady of Letters 1992 Screen Two: A Question of Attribution Screen Two: 102 Boulevard Haussmann 1999 Talking Heads 2: Waiting for the Telegram Talking Heads 2: Playing Sandwiches
Laurence Olivier Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.1990 Best New Comedy Single Spies 1992 Best Entertainment Talking Heads Best Actor in a Musical Best New Play The Madness of George III 2000 The Lady in the Van 2005 The History Boys Society of London Theatre Special Award
Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1963 Special Tony Award Beyond the Fringe (shared with Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore) 2006 Best Play The History Boys
Theatre awards Critics' Circle Theatre Award 2004 Critics' Circle Theatre Award, Best New Play: The History Boys (won) 2005 Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts (won)
Drama Desk Award 2003 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play: Talking Heads - nominated 2006 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play: The History Boys - won
Evening Standard Award 1968 Evening Standard Award, Special Award: Forty Years On - won 1985 Evening Standard British Film Award, Best Screenplay: A Private Function (shared with Malcolm Mowbray) - won 1987 Evening Standard British Film Award, Best Screenplay: Prick Up Your Ears - won 1995 Evening Standard British Film Award, Best Screenplay: The Madness of King George - won 2004 Evening Standard Award, Best Play: The History Boys - won
New York Drama Critics Circle 1963 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, Special Award: Beyond the Fringe (shared with Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore) - won 2003 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, Best Foreign Play: Talking Heads - won 2006 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, Best Play: The History Boys - won
Outer Critics Circle Award 2003 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Off-Broadway Play: Talking Heads - nominated 2006 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Broadway Play: The History Boys - won
Miscellaneous awards Bodley Medla 2008 Bodley Medal
Bollinger Prize 2008 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize: The Uncommon Reader - nominated
British Book Award 1995 British Book Award, Book of the Year: Writing Home - won 2002 British Book Award, Audiobook of the Year: The Laying on of Hands - won 2003 British Book Award, Lifetime Achievement Award 2006 British Book Award, Author of the Year - won
British Comedy Award 2000 British Comedy Award, Lifetime Achievement Award
GLAAD Award 2007 GLAAD Media Award, Outstanding Film - Limited Release: The History Boys - nominated
Hawthornden Prize 1989 Hawthornden Prize: Talking Heads
JR Ackerley Prize 2006 J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography: Untold Stories - won
London Film Critics Circle 1987 Critics' Circle Film Award, Screenwriter of the Year: Prick Up Your Ears - won 1995 Critics' Circle Film Award, Screenwriter of the Year: The Madness of King George - won
Samuel Johnson Prize 2006 Samuel Johnson Prize: Untold Stories - nominated
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