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Bette Davis

Awards

Bette Davis

34 wins & 29 nominations

Academy Awards, USA

  • Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
    1963 Nominee Oscar
    • Best Actress in a Leading Role
    • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  • Bette Davis in The Star (1952)
    1953 Nominee Oscar
    • Best Actress in a Leading Role
    • The Star
  • All About Eve (1950)
    1951 Nominee Oscar
    • Best Actress in a Leading Role
    • All About Eve
  • Bette Davis in Mr. Skeffington (1944)
    1945 Nominee Oscar
    • Best Actress in a Leading Role
    • Mr. Skeffington
  • Bette Davis and Claude Rains in Now, Voyager (1942)
    1943 Nominee Oscar
    • Best Actress in a Leading Role
    • Now, Voyager

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA

  • Burnt Offerings (1976)
    1977 Winner Golden Scroll
    • Best Supporting Actress
    • Burnt Offerings

American Film Institute, USA

  • Bette Davis
    1977 Winner Life Achievement Award

BAFTA Awards

  • Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
    1964 Nominee BAFTA Film Award
    • Best Foreign Actress
    • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
    USA.

CableACE Awards

  • As Summers Die (1986)
    1987 Nominee ACE
    • Actress in a Movie or Miniseries
    • As Summers Die
  • Bette Davis and James Stewart in Right of Way (1983)
    1984 Nominee ACE
    • Actress in a Dramatic or Theatrical Program
    • Right of Way

Cannes Film Festival

  • All About Eve (1950)
    1951 Winner Best Actress
    • All About Eve

César Awards, France

  • Bette Davis
    1986 Winner Honorary César

Deauville Film Festival

  • Bette Davis
    1987 Winner Special Achievement Award

Primetime Emmy Awards

  • Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)
    1983 Nominee Primetime Emmy
    • Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special
    • Little Gloria... Happy at Last
    For playing "Alice Gwynnne Vanderbilt".
  • Bette Davis in White Mama (1980)
    1980 Nominee Primetime Emmy
    • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special
    • White Mama
    For playing: "Adele Malone".
  • Bette Davis and Gena Rowlands in Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (1979)
    1979 Winner Primetime Emmy
    • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special
    • Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
    For playing: "Lucy Mason".
  • ABC Late Night (1973)
    1974 Nominee Primetime Emmy
    • Special Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual Achievement
    • ABC Late Night
    For episode "Warner Bros. Movies - A 50 Year Salute".

Film Society of Lincoln Center

  • Bette Davis
    1989 Winner Gala Tribute

Golden Apple Awards

  • Bette Davis
    1983 Winner Louella Parsons Award
    • Life Achievement
  • Bette Davis
    1963 Winner Golden Apple
    • Most Cooperative Actress
  • Bette Davis
    1941 Winner Golden Apple
    • Most Cooperative Actress

Golden Globes, USA

  • Bette Davis
    1974 Winner Cecil B. DeMille Award
  • Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
    1963 Nominee Golden Globe
    • Best Actress - Drama
    • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  • Bette Davis, Peter Falk, Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Thomas Mitchell, and Arthur O'Connell in Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
    1962 Nominee Golden Globe
    • Best Actress - Comedy or Musical
    • Pocketful of Miracles
  • All About Eve (1950)
    1951 Nominee Golden Globe
    • Best Actress - Drama
    • All About Eve

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists

  • All About Eve (1950)
    1952 Winner Silver Ribbon
    • Best Foreign Actress (Migliore Attrice Straniera)
    • All About Eve

Laurel Awards

  • Bette Davis
    1965 Nominee Golden Laurel
    • Female Star
    11th place.
  • Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, and Joseph Cotten in Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
    1965 Winner Golden Laurel
    • Dramatic Performance, Female
    • Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
  • Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
    1963 Nominee Golden Laurel
    • Top Female Dramatic Performance
    • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Monte-Carlo TV Festival

  • Bette Davis in A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (1982)
    1983 Winner Golden Nymph
    • A Piano for Mrs. Cimino

National Board of Review, USA

  • Bette Davis, Richard Carlson, and Teresa Wright in The Little Foxes (1941)
    1941 Winner NBR Award
    • Best Acting
    • The Little Foxes
  • Bette Davis in Dark Victory (1939)
    1939 Winner NBR Award
    • Best Acting
    • Dark Victory
    • The Old Maid

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

  • All About Eve (1950)
    1950 Winner NYFCC Award
    • Best Actress
    • All About Eve
  • Bette Davis in Dark Victory (1939)
    1939 Nominee NYFCC Award
    • Best Actress
    • Dark Victory
    Tied with Greta Garbo for Ninotchka (1939).

Photoplay Awards

  • Bette Davis
    1978 Nominee Gold Medal
    • Hall of Fame: Actress
  • Bette Davis
    1976 Nominee Gold Medal
    • Favorite Female Star
  • Bette Davis
    1975 Nominee Gold Medal
    • Favorite Female Star
  • Bette Davis
    1972 Nominee Gold Medal
    • Favorite Female Star
  • Bette Davis
    1966 Nominee Gold Medal
    • Most Popular Female Star

San Sebastián International Film Festival

  • Bette Davis
    1989 Winner Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award

Venice Film Festival

  • Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, and Wayne Morris in Kid Galahad (1937)
    1937 Winner Volpi Cup
    • Best Actress
    • Kid Galahad
    • Marked Woman

Walk of Fame

  • Bette Davis
    1960 Winner Star on the Walk of Fame
    • Motion Picture
    On 8 February 1960. At 6225 Hollywood Blvd.
  • Bette Davis
    1960 Winner Star on the Walk of Fame
    • Television
    On 8 February 1960. At 6335 Hollywood Blvd.

Women in Film Crystal Awards

  • Bette Davis
    1983 Winner Crystal Award

British Film Institute Awards

  • Bette Davis
    1987 Winner BFI Fellowship

Online Film & Television Association

  • All About Eve (1950)
    2022 Winner OFTA Film Hall of Fame
    • Character
    • All About Eve
    as Margo Channing
  • Bette Davis
    1999 Winner OFTA Film Hall of Fame
    • Acting

Picturegoer Awards

  • All About Eve (1950)
    1951 Nominee Gold Medal
    • Best Actress
    • All About Eve
  • Bette Davis and Claude Rains in Now, Voyager (1942)
    1945 Winner Gold Medal
    • Best Actress
    • Now, Voyager

Order of Arts and Letters, France

  • Bette Davis
    1986 Winner Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters

The Kennedy Center Honors

  • Bette Davis
    1987 Winner Kennedy Center Honors

The Queerties

  • Bette Davis
    2024 Nominee Queerty
    • Best Feud
    Shared with: Joan Crawford

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