Steve Martin

American comedian, actor, musician and writer (born 1945)

This article is about the entertainer. For other people named Steve Martin, see Steve Martin (disambiguation).

Steve Martin

Martin in 2017

Birth name| Stephen Glenn Martin
Born|  (1945-08-14) August 14, 1945 (age 79)
Waco, Texas, U.S.
Medium|

* Stand-up
* film
* television
* music
* books

Education|

* Santa Ana College
* California State University, Long Beach
* University of California, Los Angeles

Years active| 1966–present
Genres|

* Improvisational comedy
* musical comedy
* physical comedy
* sketch comedy
* word play
* satire

Subject(s)|

* American culture
* current events
* pop culture
* human sexuality

Spouse|

* Victoria Tennant

(m. 1986; div. 1994)​

* Anne Stringfield

(m. 2007)​

Children| 1
Signature|
Musical career
Genres|

* Bluegrass
* folk revival
* pop
* country
* musical comedy

Instruments|

* Banjo
* vocals

Labels|

* Rounder
* Warner Bros.

Website| stevemartin.com

Musical artist

Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician. Known for his work in comedy films, television, and recording, he has received many accolades, including five Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for eight Golden Globe Awards and two Tony Awards. Martin has been honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2005, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, the Honorary Academy Award in 2013 and an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2015.[1] In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics.[2]

Martin first came to public notice as a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1969, and later as a frequent host on Saturday Night Live. He became one of the most popular American stand-up comedians during the 1970s, performing his brand of offbeat, absurdist comedy routines before sold-out theaters on national tours. He then starred in films such as The Jerk (1979), Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), The Man with Two Brains (1983), All of Me (1984), ¡Three Amigos! (1986), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), L.A. Story (1991), Bowfinger (1999) and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003). He played family patriarchs in Parenthood (1989), the Father of the Bride films (1991–1995), Bringing Down the House (2003), and the Cheaper by the Dozen films (2003–2005).

Since 2015, Martin has embarked on several national comedy tours with fellow comedian Martin Short.[3] In 2018, they released their Netflix special An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life which received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations. In 2021, he co-created and starred in his first television show, the Hulu comedy series Only Murders in the Building, alongside Short and Selena Gomez, for which he earned three Primetime Emmy Award nominations, two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, a Golden Globe Award nomination, and a 2021 Peabody Award nomination. In 2022, Martin and Short co-hosted Saturday Night Live together with Gomez making an appearance.

Martin is also known for writing the books to the musical Bright Star (2016) and to the comedy Meteor Shower (2017), both of which premiered on Broadway; he co-wrote the music to the former. Martin has played banjo since an early age and has included music in his comedy routines from the beginning of his professional career. He has released several music albums and has performed with various bluegrass acts. He has won three Grammy Awards for his music and two for his comedy albums Let's Get Small (1977) and A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978).[4]

## Early life and education

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Steve Martin as a senior in high school, 1963

Stephen Glenn Martin was born on August 14, 1945,[5][6] in Waco, Texas,[7] the son of Mary Lee (née Stewart; 1911–2002) and Glenn Vernon Martin (1914–1997), a real estate salesman and aspiring actor.[8][9] He has an older sister, Melinda.[10]

Martin is of English, Scottish, Welsh, Scots-Irish, German, and French descent. He and his sister grew up in a Baptist family in Inglewood, California, and later in Garden Grove in Orange County;[11] he was a cheerleader at Garden Grove High School.[12] One of Martin's earliest memories is seeing his father as an extra serving drinks onstage at the Callboard Theater on Melrose Place in West Hollywood. During World War II in Britain, his father appeared in a production of Our Town with Raymond Massey. Expressing his affection through gifts like cars and bikes, Steve's father was stern and not emotionally open to his son.[13] He was proud but critical, with Steve later recalling that in his teens his feelings for his father were mostly of hatred.[14]

Steve Martin's first job was at newly opened Disneyland, selling guidebooks on weekends and full-time during summer break. The work lasted for three years (1955–1958). During his free time, he frequented the Main Street Magic shop, where tricks were demonstrated to patrons.[13] While working at Disneyland, he was captured in the background of the home movie that was made into the short-subject film Disneyland Dream, incidentally becoming his first film appearance. By 1960, he had mastered several magic tricks and illusions and took a paying job at the Magic shop in Fantasyland in August. There he perfected his talents for magic, juggling, and creating balloon animals in the manner of mentor Wally Boag,[15] frequently performing for tips.[16]

In his authorized biography, close friend Morris Walker suggests that Martin could "be described most accurately as an agnostic ... he rarely went to church and was never involved in organized religion of his own volition".[17] In his early 20s, Martin dated Melissa Trumbo, daughter of novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

After high school, Martin attended Santa Ana College, taking classes in drama and English poetry. In his free time, he teamed up with friend and high school classmate Kathy Westmoreland to participate in comedies and other productions at the Bird Cage Theatre. He joined a comedy troupe at Knott's Berry Farm.[13] Later, he met budding actress Stormie Sherk, and they developed comedy routines and became romantically involved. Sherk's influence led Martin to apply to the California State University, Long Beach, for enrollment with a major in philosophy.[13] Sherk enrolled at UCLA, about an hour's drive north, and the distance eventually caused them to lead separate lives.[18]

Inspired by his philosophy classes, Martin considered becoming a professor instead of an actor-comedian. Being at college changed his life.

> It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy. Something about non-sequiturs appealed to me. In philosophy, I started studying logic, and they were talking about cause and effect, and you start to realize, 'Hey, there is no cause and effect! There is no logic! There is no anything!' Then it gets real easy to write this stuff because all you have to do is twist everything hard—you twist the punch line, you twist the non-sequitur so hard away from the things that set it up.[19]

Martin recalls reading a treatise on comedy that led him to think:

> What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and never released it? What if I headed for a climax, but all I delivered was an anticlimax? What would the audience do with all that tension? Theoretically, it would have to come out sometime. But if I kept denying them the formality of a punch line, the audience would eventually pick their own place to laugh, essentially out of desperation.[20]

Martin periodically spoofed his philosophy studies in his 1970s stand-up act, comparing philosophy with studying geology.

> If you're studying geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.[21]

In 1967, Martin transferred to UCLA and switched his major to theater. While attending college, he appeared in an episode of The Dating Game, winning a date with Deana Martin. Martin began working local clubs at night, to mixed notices, and at twenty-one, he dropped out of college.[22]

## Career

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### Stand-up comedy

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#### Late night

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In 1967, his former girlfriend Nina Goldblatt, a dancer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, helped Martin land a writing job with the show by submitting his work to head writer Mason Williams.[23] Williams initially paid Martin out of his own pocket. Along with the other writers for the show, Martin won an Emmy Award[24] in 1969 at the age of twenty-three.[13] He wrote for The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour. Martin's first national television appearance was on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1968. He says:

> [I] appeared on The Virginia Graham Show, circa 1970. I looked grotesque. I had a hairdo like a helmet, which I blow-dried to a puffy bouffant, for reasons I no longer understand. I wore a frock coat and a silk shirt, and my delivery was mannered, slow and self-aware. I had absolutely no authority. After reviewing the show, I was depressed for a week.[20]

During these years his roommates included Gary Mule Deer and Michael Johnson.[25] Gary Mule Deer supplied the first joke Martin submitted to Tommy Smothers for use on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour show.[26] Martin opened for groups such as The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (who returned the favor by appearing in his 1980 television special All Commercials), The Carpenters, and Toto. He appeared at The Boarding House, among other venues. He continued to write, earning an Emmy nomination for his work on Van Dyke and Company in 1976.

In the mid-1970s, Martin made frequent appearances as a stand-up comedian on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,[20] and on The Gong Show, HBO's On Location, The Muppet Show,[27] and NBC's Saturday Night Live (SNL). SNL's audience jumped by a million viewers when he made guest appearances, and he was one of the show's most successful hosts.[13] Martin has appeared on twenty-seven Saturday Night Live shows and guest-hosted sixteen times, second only to Alec Baldwin, who has hosted seventeen times as of February 2017[update]. On the show, Martin popularized the air quotes gesture.[28] While on the show, Martin grew close to several cast members, including Gilda Radner. On the night she died of ovarian cancer, a tearful Martin hosted SNL and featured footage of himself and Radner together in a 1978 sketch.

#### Comedy albums

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Steve Martin, 1976

In the 1970s, his television appearances led to the release of comedy albums that went platinum.[13] The track "Excuse Me" on his first album, Let's Get Small (1977), helped establish a national catch phrase.[13] His next album, A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978), was an even bigger success, reaching the No. 2 spot on the U.S. sales chart, selling over a million copies. "Just a wild and crazy guy" became another of Martin's known catchphrases.[13] The album featured a character based on a series of Saturday Night Live sketches in which Martin and Dan Aykroyd played the Festrunk Brothers; Yortuk and Georgi were bumbling Czechoslovak would-be playboys. The album ends with the song "King Tut", written and sung by Martin and backed by the "Toot Uncommons", members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. It was later released as a single, reaching No. 17 on the U.S. charts in 1978 and selling over a million copies.[13][29] The song came out during the King Tut craze that accompanied the popular traveling exhibit of the Egyptian king's tomb artifacts. Both albums won Grammys for Best Comedy Recording in 1977 and 1978, respectively. Martin performed "King Tut" on the April 22, 1978, SNL program.

Decades later, in 2012, The A.V. Club described Martin's unique style and its effect on audiences:

> [Martin was] both a consummate entertainer and a glib, knowing parody of a consummate entertainer. He was at once a hammy populist with an uncanny, unprecedented feel for the tastes of a mass audience and a sly intellectual whose goofy shtick cunningly deconstructed stand-up comedy.[30]

On his comedy albums, Martin's stand-up is self-referential and sometimes self-mocking. It mixes philosophical riffs with sudden spurts of "happy feet", banjo playing with balloon depictions of concepts like venereal disease, and the "controversial" kitten juggling (he is a master juggler; the "kittens" were stuffed animal toys). His style is off-kilter and ironic and sometimes pokes fun at stand-up comedy traditions, such as Martin opening his act (from A Wild and Crazy Guy) by saying:

> I think there's nothing better for a person to come up and do the same thing over and over for two weeks. This is what I enjoy, so I'm going to do the same thing over and over and over [...] I'm going to do the same joke over and over in the same show, it'll be like a new thing.

Or: "Hello, I'm Steve Martin, and I'll be out here in a minute."[28][31] In one comedy routine, used on the Comedy Is Not Pretty! album, Martin claimed that his real name was "Gern Blanston". The riff took on a life of its own. There is a Gern Blanston website, and for a time a rock band took the moniker as its name.[32]

Martin's show soon required full-sized stadiums for the audiences he was drawing. Concerned about his visibility in venues on such a scale, Martin began to wear a distinctive three-piece white suit that became a trademark for his act.[33] Martin stopped doing stand-up comedy in 1981 to concentrate on movies and did not return for thirty-five years.[13] About the decision, he said, "My act was conceptual. Once the concept was stated, and everybody understood it, it was done... It was about coming to the end of the road. There was no way to live on in that persona. I had to take that fabulous luck of not being remembered as that, exclusively. You know, I didn't announce that I was stopping. I just stopped."[34]

#### Return to standup

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In 2016, Martin made a low-key comeback to live comedy, opening for Jerry Seinfeld. He performed a ten-minute stand-up routine before turning the stage over to Seinfeld.[35] Also in 2016 he staged a national tour with Martin Short and the Steep Canyon Rangers, which yielded a 2018 Netflix comedy special, Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life.[36] The special received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations with Martin receiving two nominations for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special and Outstanding Music and Lyrics for "The Buddy Song".

### Acting career

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Martin in 1982

#### 1970s

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By the end of the 1970s, Martin had acquired the kind of following normally reserved for rock stars, with his tour appearances typically occurring at sold-out arenas filled with tens of thousands of screaming fans. But unknown to his audience, stand-up comedy was "just an accident" for him; his real goal was to get into film.[19]

Martin had a small role in the 1972 film Another Nice Mess. In 1974, he starred in the Canadian travelogue production The Funnier Side of Eastern Canada, created to promote tourism in Montreal and Toronto, which also included standup segments filmed at the Ice House in Pasadena, California.[37] His first substantial film appearance was in a short titled The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977). The seven-minute-long film, also featuring Buck Henry and Teri Garr, was written by and starred Martin. The film was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Short Film, Live Action. He made his first substantial feature film appearance in the musical Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, where he sang The Beatles' "Maxwell's Silver Hammer".

In 1979, Martin starred in the comedy film The Jerk, directed by Carl Reiner, and written by Martin, Michael Elias, and Carl Gottlieb. The film was a huge success, grossing over $100 million on a budget of approximately $4 million.[38]

Stanley Kubrick met with him to discuss the possibility of Martin starring in a screwball comedy version of Traumnovelle (Kubrick later changed his approach to the material, the result of which was 1999's Eyes Wide Shut). Martin was executive producer for Domestic Life, a prime-time television series starring friend Martin Mull, and a late-night series called Twilight Theater. It emboldened Martin to try his hand at his first serious film, Pennies from Heaven (1981), based on the 1978 BBC serial by Dennis Potter. He was anxious to perform in the movie because of his desire to avoid being typecast. To prepare for that film, Martin took acting lessons from director Herbert Ross and spent months learning how to tap dance. The film was a financial failure; Martin's comment at the time was "I don't know what to blame, other than it's me and not a comedy."[39]

#### 1980s

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Martin was in three more Reiner-directed comedies after The Jerk: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid in 1982, The Man with Two Brains in 1983 and All of Me in 1984, his most critically acclaimed performance up to that point.[40][41][42] Martin was by now requesting almost $3 million per film, but Plaid and Two Brains both failed at the box office like Pennies, endangering his young career.[43] In 1986, Martin joined fellow Saturday Night Live veterans Martin Short and Chevy Chase in ¡Three Amigos!, directed by John Landis, and written by Martin, Lorne Michaels, and singer-songwriter Randy Newman. It was originally entitled The Three Caballeros and Martin was to be teamed with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. In 1986, Martin was in the movie musical film version of the hit Off-Broadway play Little Shop of Horrors (based on a famous B-movie), playing the sadistic dentist, Orin Scrivello. The film was the first of three films teaming Martin with Rick Moranis. In 1987, Martin joined comedian John Candy in the John Hughes movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles.[44] That same year, Martin starred in Roxanne, the film adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, which he co-wrote and won him a Writers Guild of America Award. It also garnered recognition from Hollywood and the public that he was more than a comedian. In 1988, he performed in the Frank Oz film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, a remake of Bedtime Story, alongside Michael Caine. Also in 1988, he appeared at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center in a revival of Waiting for Godot directed by Mike Nichols.[45] He played Vladimir, with Robin Williams as Estragon and Bill Irwin as Lucky. Martin starred in the Ron Howard film Parenthood with Rick Moranis in 1989.

#### 1990s

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He later re-teamed with Moranis in the Mafia comedy My Blue Heaven (1990). In 1991, Martin starred in and wrote L.A. Story, a romantic comedy, in which the female lead was played by his then-wife Victoria Tennant. Martin also appeared in Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon, in which he played the tightly wound Hollywood film producer, Davis, who was recovering from a traumatic robbery that left him injured, which was a more serious role for him. Martin also starred in a remake of the comedy Father of the Bride in 1991 (followed by a sequel in 1995) and in the 1992 comedy Housesitter, with Goldie Hawn and Dana Delany. In 1994, he starred in A Simple Twist of Fate; a film adaptation of Silas Marner.

In David Mamet's 1997 thriller The Spanish Prisoner, Martin played a darker role as a wealthy stranger who takes a suspicious interest in the work of a young businessman (Campbell Scott). In 1998, Martin guest starred with U2 in the 200th episode of The Simpsons titled "Trash of the Titans", providing the voice for sanitation commissioner Ray Patterson, and also voiced Hotep in the animated film The Prince of Egypt.

In 1999, Martin and Hawn starred in a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy, The Out-of-Towners, and Martin went on to star with Eddie Murphy in the comedy Bowfinger, which he also wrote. He also appeared in Disney's Fantasia 2000 to introduce the segment Pines of Rome, along with Itzhak Perlman.

#### 2000s

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By 2003, Martin ranked fourth on the box office stars list, after starring in Bringing Down the House (2003) and Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), each of which earned over $130 million at U.S. theaters. That same year, he also played the villainous Mr. Chairman in the animation/live action blend, Looney Tunes: Back in Action. In 2005, Martin wrote and starred in Shopgirl, based on his own novella (2000), and starred in Cheaper by the Dozen 2. In 2006, he starred in the box office hit The Pink Panther, as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau. He reprised the role in 2009's The Pink Panther 2. When combined, the two films grossed over $230 million at the box office.

In the comedy Baby Mama (2008), starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Martin played the founder of a health food company. Martin also appeared as a guest star in 30 Rock as Gavin Volure in the episode Gavin Volure. He was nominated for an Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. The following year he starred in Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy It's Complicated (2009), opposite Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin. In 2009, an article in The Guardian listed Martin as one of the best actors never to receive an Oscar nomination.[46]

#### 2010s

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Martin with David Letterman at the Peabody Awards in 2016

During the 2010s, Martin sparsely appeared in film and television. In 2011, he appeared with Jack Black, Owen Wilson, and JoBeth Williams in the birdwatching comedy The Big Year directed by David Frankel. The film was criticized for its lightweight story and was a box office bomb. After a three-year hiatus, Martin returned in 2015 when he voiced a role in the DreamWorks animated film Home alongside Jim Parsons and Rihanna. The film received mixed critical reception but was a financial success. In 2016, he played a supporting role in Ang Lee's war drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. He also appeared as himself in Jerry Seinfeld's Netflix series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee in 2016. He also appeared in the taped version of Oh, Hello on Broadway (2017) as the guest. He also starred in the Netflix comedy special An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life with Martin Short in 2018.

#### 2020s

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In 2020, Martin reprised his role as George Banks in the short Father of the Bride, Part 3(ish). Martin is an executive producer of Only Murders in the Building, a Hulu comedy series in which he stars with Martin Short and Selena Gomez, and which he created alongside John Hoffman.[47][48] In August 2022, Martin revealed that the series will likely be his final role, as he does not intend to seek out roles or cameos for other shows or films once the series ends.[49]

### Writing

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#### Books

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Martin's first book was Cruel Shoes, a collection of comedic short stories and essays. It was published in 1979 by G. P. Putnam's Sons after a limited release of a truncated version in 1977.

Throughout the 1990s, Martin wrote various pieces for The New Yorker. In 2002, he adapted the Carl Sternheim play The Underpants, which ran Off Broadway at Classic Stage Company, and in 2008 co-wrote and produced Traitor, starring Don Cheadle. He has also written the novellas Shopgirl (2000) and The Pleasure of My Company (2003), both more wry in tone than raucous.[50] A story of a 28-year-old woman behind the glove counter at the Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Beverly Hills, Shopgirl was made into a film starring Martin and Claire Danes.[50] The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2005 and was featured at the Chicago International Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival before going into limited release in the US. In 2007, he published a memoir, Born Standing Up, which Time magazine named as one of the Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2007, ranking it at No. 6, and praising it as "a funny, moving, surprisingly frank memoir."[51] In 2010, he published the novel An Object of Beauty.[52]

Beginning in 2019, Martin has collaborated with cartoonist Harry Bliss as a writer for the syndicated single-panel comic Bliss.[53][54] Together, they published the cartoon collection A Wealth of Pigeons.[55] In 2022, they collaborated again for Martin's illustrated autobiography, Number One is Walking.[56]

#### Plays

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Martin at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival

In 1993, Martin wrote his first full-length play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile. The first reading of the play took place in Beverly Hills, California at his home, with Tom Hanks reading the role of Pablo Picasso and Chris Sarandon reading the role of Albert Einstein. Following this, the play opened at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, and played from October 1993 to May 1994, then went on to run successfully in Los Angeles, New York City, and several other US cities.[57] In 2009, the school board in La Grande, Oregon, refused to allow the play to be performed after several parents complained about the content. In an open letter in the local Observer newspaper, Martin wrote:

> I have heard that some in your community have characterized the play as 'people drinking in bars, and treating women as sex objects.' With apologies to William Shakespeare, this is like calling Hamlet a play about a castle [...] I will finance a non-profit, off-high school campus production [...] so that individuals, outside the jurisdiction of the school board but within the guarantees of freedom of expression provided by the Constitution of the United States can determine whether they will or will not see the play.[58]

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Inspired by Love has Come for You, Martin and Edie Brickell collaborated on his first musical, Bright Star. It is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in 1945–46, with flashbacks to 1923. The musical debuted on Broadway on March 24, 2016.[59] Charles Isherwood of The New York Times praised its score by Martin and Brickell writing, "The shining achievement of the musical is its winsome country and bluegrass score, with music by Mr. Martin and Ms. Brickell, and lyrics by Ms. Brickell...the songs — yearning ballads and square-dance romps rich with fiddle, piano, and banjo, beautifully played by a nine-person band — provide a buoyancy that keeps the momentum from stalling."[60] The musical went on to receive five Tony Award nominations including Best Musical. Martin himself received Tony nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score and received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music and the Outstanding Critics Circle Award for Best New Score. He also received a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

Martin's next work as a playwright was the comic play Meteor Shower which opened at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre in August 2016,[61] and went on to Connecticut's Long Wharf Theatre later the same year.[62] The play opened on Broadway at the Booth Theater on November 29, 2017. The cast features Amy Schumer, Laura Benanti, Jeremy Shamos and Keegan-Michael Key, with direction by Jerry Zaks.[63][64] Critic Allison Adaot of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Meteor Shower is a very funny play. Keening-like-a-howler-monkey funny. Design-a-new-cry-laughing-emoji funny...In the confident hands of writer and comedy maestro Steve Martin, the premise is polished to sparkling."[65]

### Hosting

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Martin hosted the Academy Awards solo in 2001 and 2003, and with Alec Baldwin in 2010.[66] In 2020, Martin opened the 92nd Academy Awards alongside Chris Rock with comedy material. They were not previously announced as that year's hosts, and joked after their opening monolog, "Well we've had a great time not hosting tonight".

In 2005, Martin co-hosted Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years, marking the park's anniversary. Disney continued to run the show until March 2009, which now[when?] plays in the lobby of Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln.

A fan of Monty Python, in 1989 Martin hosted the television special, Parrot Sketch Not Included – 20 Years of Monty Python.[67][68]

### Music career

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#### Banjo music

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Martin playing with the Steep Canyon Rangers in Seattle in November 2009

Martin first picked up the banjo when he was around 17 years of age. Martin has stated in several interviews and in his memoir, Born Standing Up, that he used to take 33 rpm bluegrass records and slow them down to 16 rpm and tune his banjo down, so the notes would sound the same. Martin was able to pick out each note and perfect his playing.[citation needed] Martin learned how to play the banjo with help from John McEuen, who later joined the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. McEuen's brother later managed Martin as well as the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Martin did his stand-up routine opening for the band in the early 1970s. He had the band play on his hit song "King Tut", being credited as "The Toot Uncommons" (as in Tutankhamun).[citation needed] The banjo was a staple of Martin's 1970s stand-up career, and he periodically poked fun at his love for the instrument.[20] On the Comedy Is Not Pretty! album, he included an all-instrumental jam, titled "Drop Thumb Medley", and played the track on his 1979 concert tour. His final comedy album, The Steve Martin Brothers (1981), featured one side of Martin's typical stand-up material, with the other side featuring live performances of Steve playing banjo with a bluegrass band.

In 2001, he played banjo on Earl Scruggs's remake of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown". The recording was the winner of the Best Country Instrumental Performance category at the Grammy Awards of 2002. In 2008, Martin appeared with the band, In the Minds of the Living, during a show in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.[69] In 2009, Martin released his first all-music album, The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo with appearances from stars such as Dolly Parton.[70] The album won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album in 2010.[71] Nitty Gritty Dirt Band member John McEuen produced the album. Martin made his first appearance on The Grand Ole Opry on May 30, 2009.[72] In the American Idol season eight finals, he performed alongside Michael Sarver and Megan Joy in the song "Pretty Flowers". Martin is featured playing banjo on "I Hate Love" from Kelly Clarkson's tenth studio album Chemistry . It was released as a promotional single on June 2, 2023.[73]

Alison Brown co-wrote Foggy Morning Breaking[74] with Martin in 2023, and Wall Guitar in 2024.

#### Steep Canyon Rangers

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Steve Martin at MerleFest in 2010

In June 2009, Martin played banjo along with the Steep Canyon Rangers on A Prairie Home Companion and began a two-month U.S. tour with the Rangers in September, including appearances at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, Carnegie Hall and Benaroya Hall in Seattle.[75][76] In November, they went on to play at the Royal Festival Hall in London with support from Mary Black.[77] In 2010, Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers appeared at the New Orleans Jazzfest, Merlefest Bluegrass Festival in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, at Bonnaroo Music Festival, at the ROMP[78] Bluegrass Festival in Owensboro, Kentucky, at the Red Butte Garden Concert series,[79] and on the BBC's Later... with Jools Holland.[80] Martin performed "Jubilation Day" with the Steep Canyon Rangers on The Colbert Report on March 21, 2011, on Conan on May 3, 2011, and on BBC's The One Show on July 6, 2011.[81] Martin performed a song he wrote called "Me and Paul Revere"[82] in addition to two other songs on the lawn of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., at the "Capitol Fourth Celebration" on July 4, 2011.[83] While on tour, Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers occasionally performed Martin's 1978 novelty hit song "King Tut" live in a bluegrass arrangement. One of these performances was released on the 2011 album Rare Bird Alert.[84] In 2011, Martin also narrated and appeared in the PBS documentary "Give Me The Banjo" chronicling the history of the banjo in America.[85]

Love Has Come for You, a collaboration album with Edie Brickell, was released in April 2013.[86] The two made musical guest appearances on talk shows, such as The View and Late Show with David Letterman, to promote the album.[87][88][89] The title track won the Grammy Award for Best American Roots Song.[90] Starting in May 2013, he began a tour with the Steep Canyon Rangers and Edie Brickell throughout the United States.[91] In 2015, Brickell and Martin released So Familiar as the second installment of their partnership.[92] In 2017, Martin and Brickell appeared in the multi-award-winning documentary film The American Epic Sessions directed by Bernard MacMahon. Recording live direct-to-disc on the first electrical sound recording system from the 1920s,[93] they performed a version of "The Coo Coo Bird" a traditional song that Martin learned from the 1960s folk music group The Holy Modal Rounders.[94] The song was featured on the film soundtrack, Music from The American Epic Sessions released on June 9, 2017.[93]

In 2010, Martin created the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass, an award established to reward artistry and bring greater visibility to bluegrass performers.[95] The prize includes a US$50,000 cash award, a bronze sculpture created by the artist Eric Fischl, and a chance to perform with Martin on Late Show with David Letterman. Recipients include Noam Pikelny of the Punch Brothers band (2010),[96] Sammy Shelor of Lonesome River Band (2011),[97] Mark Johnson (2012),[98][99] Jens Kruger (2013),[100] Eddie Adcock (2014),[101] Danny Barnes (2015), Rhiannon Giddens (2016), Scott Vestal (2017), Kristin Scott Benson (2018),[102] and Victor Furtado (2019).[103]

## Personal life

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At the beginning of his career in comedy, Martin dated writer and artist Eve Babitz, who suggested he dress in what became his trademark white suit.[104] From 1977 to 1980, Martin was in a relationship with Bernadette Peters, with whom he co-starred in The Jerk and Pennies from Heaven. He also dated Karen Carpenter, Mary Tyler Moore and Anne Heche, who wrote about their relationship in her memoir.[105] On November 20, 1986, Martin married actress Victoria Tennant, with whom he co-starred in All of Me and L.A. Story. They divorced in 1994.[106]

Martin went on a USO Tour to Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Storm from October 14 to 21, 1990. He met with military service men and women all over the region signing thousands of autographs and posing for pictures.[107] "Everybody coming out here, giving up part of their lives for this effort. I had some time off, and I felt kind of bad just sitting there," Martin said, "so I came."[108]

On July 28, 2007, Martin married writer and former New Yorker staff member Anne Stringfield.[109] Bob Kerrey presided over the ceremony at Martin's Los Angeles home. Lorne Michaels served as best man.[109] The nuptials came as a surprise to several guests, who had been told they were coming for a party.[109] In December 2012, Martin became a father when Stringfield gave birth to their daughter.[110][111]

Martin has been an avid art collector since 1968, when he bought a print by Ed Ruscha.[112] In 2001, the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art presented a five-month exhibit of twenty-eight items from Martin's collection, including works by Roy Lichtenstein, Pablo Picasso, David Hockney, and Edward Hopper.[113] In 2006, he sold Hopper's Hotel Window (1955)[114] at Sotheby's for $26.8 million.[115] In 2015, working with two other curators, he organized an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and several other locations called, "The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris," featuring the works of Canadian painter and Group of Seven co-founder Lawren Harris.[116]

In July 2004, Martin purchased what he believed to be Landschaft mit Pferden (Landscape with Horses), a 1915 work by Heinrich Campendonk, from a Paris gallery for approximately €700,000. Fifteen months later, he sold the painting at a Christie's auction to a Swiss businesswoman for €500,000. The painting was later discovered to be a forgery. Police believe the fake Campendonk originated from a collection devised by a German forgery ring led by Wolfgang Beltracchi, pieces from which had been sold to French galleries.[117] Martin only discovered the fact that the painting had been fake many years after it had been sold at the auction. Concerning the experience, Martin said that the Beltracchis "were quite clever in that they gave it a long provenance and they faked labels, and it came out of a collection that mingled legitimate pictures with faked pictures."[118][119]

Martin was on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art board of trustees from 1984 to 2004.[120] Martin assisted in launching the National Endowment for Indigenous Visual Arts (NEIVA), a fund to support Australian Indigenous artists in 2021. Martin has supported Indigenous Australian painting previously. He organized an exhibition in 2019 with Gagosian Gallery titled "Desert Painters of Australia", which featured art by George Tjungurrayi and Emily Kame Kngwarreye.[121]

Martin has tinnitus; the condition was first attributed to filming a pistol shooting scene for Three Amigos in 1986,[122][123] but Martin later clarified that the tinnitus was actually from years of listening to loud music and performing in front of noisy crowds.[124]

## Influences

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Martin in 2011

Martin has said that his comedy influences include Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Jack Benny, Jerry Lewis, and Woody Allen.[125][126]

On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, he mentioned that Jerry Seinfeld is one of his "retro heroes", "a guy who came up behind me and is better than I am. I think he's fantastic, I love to listen to him, he almost puts me at peace. I love to listen to him talk".[127]

Martin's offbeat, ironic, and deconstructive style of humor has influenced many comedians during his career including Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart,[128] Stephen Colbert, Robert Smigel, Bo Burnham,[129] and Jordan Peele.[130] Singer and composer Mike Patton cited Steve Martin as being an early influence[131] saying that he identifies with Martin.[132]

## Filmography

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Main article: Steve Martin filmography

## Awards and nominations

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Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Steve Martin

Martin has received several accolades including an Academy Honorary Award, a Emmy Award, five Grammy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as nominations for eight Golden Globe Awards and two Tony Awards. The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.[133]

## Discography

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### Albums

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Steve Martin albums  Album  | Year  | Peak chart positions  | Certifications
[134] | Type

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Billboard 200
[135] | US Bluegrass
[136]
Let's Get Small | 1977  | 10  | —  |

* US: Platinum

| Comedy
A Wild and Crazy Guy | 1978  | 2  | —  |

* US: 2× Platinum

Comedy Is Not Pretty! | 1979  | 25  | —  |

* US: Gold

The Steve Martin Brothers | 1981  | 135  | —  |
The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo | 2009  | 93  | 1  |  | Music
Rare Bird Alert[137]
(with Steep Canyon Rangers) | 2011  | 43  | 1  |
Love Has Come for You[138]
(with Edie Brickell) | 2013  | 21  | 1  |
Live
(with Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell) | 2014  | —  | 1  |
So Familiar
(with Edie Brickell)[139] | 2015  | 126  | 1  |
The Long-Awaited Album[140]
(with Steep Canyon Rangers) | 2017  | 189  | 1  |
"—" denotes a title that did not chart.

### Singles

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Steve Martin singles  Title  | Year  | Peak chart positions

[141] | Album  | Type

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"Grandmother's Song"  | 1977  | 72  | Let's Get Small | Comedy
"King Tut"  | 1978  | 17  | A Wild and Crazy Guy | Music
"Cruel Shoes"  | 1979  | 91  | Comedy Is Not Pretty | Comedy
"Bluegrass Radio"
(with Alison Brown featuring Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, Trey Hensley, and Todd Phillips) | 2024  | —  | Non-album single  | Music

### Music videos

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Steve Martin music videos  Video  | Year  | Director

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"Jubilation Day"[142] | 2011  | Ryan Reichenfeld
"Pretty Little One"[143] | 2014  | David Horn
"Won't Go Back"[144]
(with Edie Brickell) | 2015  | Matt Robertson
"Caroline"  | 2017  | Brian Petchers
"So Familiar"  | 2018  | Laurence Jacobs
"Promontory Point"
"Bluegrass Radio"
(with Alison Brown featuring Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, Trey Hensley, and Todd Phillips) | 2024  | —

## Stand-up specials

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* Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life, 2018

### Other video releases

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* Steve Martin-Live! (1986, VHS; includes short film "The Absent-Minded Waiter and footage from a 1979 concert)
* Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin (1998, DVD/VHS; sketch compilation)
* Steve Martin: The Television Stuff (2012, DVD; includes content of Steve Martin-Live! as well as his NBC specials and other television appearances)

## Bibliography

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This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (April 2022)

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### Books and plays

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Books and plays authored by Steve Martin  Year  | Title  | Notes

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1977  | Cruel Shoes | collection of essays and short stories, first widely published in 1979
1993  | Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays:
Picasso at the Lapin Agile, the Zig-Zag Woman, Patter for the Floating Lady, WASP | plays
1998  | Pure Drivel | collection of essays and short stories
2000  | Shopgirl | novella
2001  | Kindly Lent Their Owner: The Private Collection of Steve Martin | nonfiction
2002  | The Underpants: A Play | play
2003  | The Pleasure of My Company | novel
2005  | The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z | children's book
2007  | Born Standing Up | nonfiction
2010  | An Object of Beauty | novel
Late for School | children's book
2012  | The Ten, Make That Nine, Habits of Very Organized People. Make That Ten.: The Tweets of Steve Martin | collection of tweets
2014  | Bright Star | musical with Edie Brickell
2016  | Meteor Shower | play
2020  | A Wealth of Pigeons | collection of cartoons with Harry Bliss
2022  | Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions | memoir with illustrations by Harry Bliss
2023  | So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin | audiobook cowritten with Adam Gopnik

### Screenplays

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Screenplays by Steve Martin  Year  | Title  | Notes

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1977  | The Absent-Minded Waiter | short film
1979  | The Jerk | with Michael Elias and Carl Gottlieb
1982  | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | with Carl Reiner and George Gipe
1983  | The Man with Two Brains | with Carl Reiner and George Gipe
1986  | Three Amigos | with Lorne Michaels and Randy Newman
1987  | Roxanne | based on Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
1991  | L.A. Story | screenplay first published in 1987 with Roxanne as Two Screenplays
1994  | A Simple Twist of Fate | based on the 1861 novel Silas Marner by George Eliot
1999  | Bowfinger |
2005  | Shopgirl | based on his novella of the same name
2006  | The Pink Panther | with Len Blum
2008  | Traitor | story only; with Jeffrey Nachmanoff
2009  | The Pink Panther 2 | with Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber

### Essays, reporting and other contributions

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* Danto, Arthur C. (2001). Eric Fischl 1970–2000. Afterword by Steve Martin. New York: Monacelli Press.
* Modern Library Humor and Wit Series (2000) (Introduction and series editor)
* Martin, Steve (February 13, 2000) [published February 21 & 28, 2000]. "Two menus". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. Vol. 97, no. 27\. p. 25\. Archived from the original on August 30, 2021.

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* For "Love Has Come for You" "Bluegrass Albums". Billboard. May 11, 2013. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
* For "Live (with Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell) " "Bluegrass Albums". Billboard. May 29, 2014. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
* For "So Familiar" "Bluegrass Albums". Billboard. November 21, 2015. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
* For "The Long-Awaited Album" "Bluegrass Albums". Billboard. October 14, 2017. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
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138. ^ "Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers Launch Tour". All Access. February 21, 2013. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
139. ^ Edwards, Fred (August 20, 2015). "Steve Martin & Edie Brickell Announce Second Album 'So Familiar'". Billboard. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
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143. ^ "CMT : Videos : Steve Martin : Pretty Little One". Country Music Television. Archived from the original on March 19, 2014. Retrieved March 19, 2014.
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## General and cited sources

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* Martin, Steve (2007). Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life. Scribner. ISBN 978-1-4165-6974-9.
* Walker, Morris (1998). Steve Martin: The Magic Years. SPI Books. ISBN 978-1-5617-1980-8.

## External links

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Steve Martin at Wikipedia's sister projects

* Media from Commons
* Quotations from Wikiquote
* Data from Wikidata

* Official website
* Steve Martin at IMDb
* Steve Martin at the TCM Movie Database
* Talking About Steve Martin at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
* Steve Martin on National Public Radio: 2008 Morning Edition interview
* Steve Martin on National Public Radio: 2003 Fresh Air interview
* Steve Martin on Charlie Rose
* Steve Martin's Orange County Orange County Register A review including some of the earlier gigs in his career.
* Interview with Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin Short about The Three Amigos in 1986 from Texas Archive of the Moving Image

* v
* t
* e

Steve Martin

* Filmography
* Awards and nominations

Albums|

* Let's Get Small (1977)
* A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978)
* Comedy Is Not Pretty! (1979)
* The Steve Martin Brothers (1981)
* The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo (2009)
* Rare Bird Alert (2011)
* Love Has Come for You (2013)
* So Familiar (2015)
* The Long-Awaited Album (2017)

| Singles|

* "King Tut" (1978)

|

Books|

* Cruel Shoes (1979)
* Pure Drivel (1998)
* Shopgirl (2000)
* The Pleasure of My Company (2003)
* Born Standing Up (2007)
* The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z! (2007)

Screenplays|

* The Absent-Minded Waiter (short, 1977)
* The Jerk (1979)
* Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
* The Man with Two Brains (1983)
* ¡Three Amigos! (1986)
* Roxanne (1987)
* L.A. Story (1991)
* A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
* Bowfinger (1999)
* Shopgirl (2005)
* The Pink Panther (2006)
* Traitor (story only, 2008)
* The Pink Panther 2 (2009)

Plays|

* Picasso at the Lapin Agile (1993)
* The Underpants (2002)
* Bright Star (2014 musical)
* Meteor Shower (2016)

Television|

* The Winds of Whoopee (1983)
* Domestic Life (1984)
* Leo & Liz in Beverly Hills (1986)
* Only Murders in the Building (2021–present)

Other|

* Aspen Film Society

Category

Awards for Steve Martin

* v
* t
* e

Academy Honorary Award

1928–1950|

* Warner Bros. / Charlie Chaplin (1928)
* Walt Disney (1932)
* Shirley Temple (1934)
* D. W. Griffith (1935)
* The March of Time / W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson (1936)
* Edgar Bergen / W. Howard Greene / Museum of Modern Art Film Library / Mack Sennett (1937)
* J. Arthur Ball / Walt Disney / Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney / Gordon Jennings, Jan Domela, Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Loren L. Ryder, Harry D. Mills, Louis Mesenkop, Walter Oberst / Oliver T. Marsh and Allen Davey / Harry Warner (1938)
* Douglas Fairbanks / Judy Garland / William Cameron Menzies / Motion Picture Relief Fund (Jean Hersholt, Ralph Morgan, Ralph Block, Conrad Nagel) / Technicolor SA (1939)
* Bob Hope / Nathan Levinson (1940)
* Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company / Leopold Stokowski and his associates / Rey Scott / British Ministry of Information (1941)
* Charles Boyer / Noël Coward / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942)
* George Pal (1943)
* Bob Hope / Margaret O'Brien (1944)
* Republic Studio, Daniel J. Bloomberg, and the Republic Studio Sound Department / Walter Wanger / The House I Live In / Peggy Ann Garner (1945)
* Harold Russell / Laurence Olivier / Ernst Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946)
* James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947)
* Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948)
* Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille / The Bicycle Thief (1949)
* Louis B. Mayer / George Murphy / The Walls of Malapaga (1950)

1951–1975|

* Gene Kelly / Rashomon (1951)
* Merian C. Cooper / Bob Hope / Harold Lloyd / George Mitchell / Joseph M. Schenck / Forbidden Games (1952)
* 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation / Bell & Howell Company / Joseph Breen / Pete Smith (1953)
* Bausch & Lomb Optical Company / Danny Kaye / Kemp Niver / Greta Garbo / Jon Whiteley / Vincent Winter / Gate of Hell (1954)
* Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1955)
* Eddie Cantor (1956)
* Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers / Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson / Charles Brackett / B. B. Kahane (1957)
* Maurice Chevalier (1958)
* Buster Keaton / Lee de Forest (1959)
* Gary Cooper / Stan Laurel / Hayley Mills (1960)
* William L. Hendricks / Fred L. Metzler / Jerome Robbins (1961)
* William J. Tuttle (1964)
* Bob Hope (1965)
* Yakima Canutt / Y. Frank Freeman (1966)
* Arthur Freed (1967)
* John Chambers / Onna White (1968)
* Cary Grant (1969)
* Lillian Gish / Orson Welles (1970)
* Charlie Chaplin (1971)
* Charles S. Boren / Edward G. Robinson (1972)
* Henri Langlois / Groucho Marx (1973)
* Howard Hawks / Jean Renoir (1974)
* Mary Pickford (1975)

1976–2000|

* Margaret Booth (1977)
* Walter Lantz / Laurence Olivier / King Vidor / Museum of Modern Art Department of Film (1978)
* Hal Elias / Alec Guinness (1979)
* Henry Fonda (1980)
* Barbara Stanwyck (1981)
* Mickey Rooney (1982)
* Hal Roach (1983)
* James Stewart / National Endowment for the Arts (1984)
* Paul Newman / Alex North (1985)
* Ralph Bellamy (1986)
* Eastman Kodak Company / National Film Board of Canada (1988)
* Akira Kurosawa (1989)
* Sophia Loren / Myrna Loy (1990)
* Satyajit Ray (1991)
* Federico Fellini (1992)
* Deborah Kerr (1993)
* Michelangelo Antonioni (1994)
* Kirk Douglas / Chuck Jones (1995)
* Michael Kidd (1996)
* Stanley Donen (1997)
* Elia Kazan (1998)
* Andrzej Wajda (1999)
* Jack Cardiff / Ernest Lehman (2000)

2001–present|

* Sidney Poitier / Robert Redford (2001)
* Peter O'Toole (2002)
* Blake Edwards (2003)
* Sidney Lumet (2004)
* Robert Altman (2005)
* Ennio Morricone (2006)
* Robert F. Boyle (2007)
* Lauren Bacall / Roger Corman / Gordon Willis (2009)
* Kevin Brownlow / Jean-Luc Godard / Eli Wallach (2010)
* James Earl Jones / Dick Smith (2011)
* D. A. Pennebaker / Hal Needham / George Stevens Jr. (2012)
* Angela Lansbury / Steve Martin / Piero Tosi (2013)
* Jean-Claude Carrière / Hayao Miyazaki / Maureen O'Hara (2014)
* Spike Lee / Gena Rowlands (2015)
* Jackie Chan / Lynn Stalmaster / Anne V. Coates / Frederick Wiseman (2016)
* Charles Burnett / Owen Roizman / Donald Sutherland / Agnès Varda (2017)
* Marvin Levy / Lalo Schifrin / Cicely Tyson (2018)
* David Lynch / Wes Studi / Lina Wertmüller (2019)
* Samuel L. Jackson / Elaine May / Liv Ullmann (2021)
* Euzhan Palcy / Diane Warren / Peter Weir (2022)
* Angela Bassett / Mel Brooks / Carol Littleton (2023)
* Quincy Jones / Juliet Taylor (2024)

* v
* t
* e

AFI Life Achievement Award

* John Ford (1973)
* James Cagney (1974)
* Orson Welles (1975)
* William Wyler (1976)
* Bette Davis (1977)
* Henry Fonda (1978)
* Alfred Hitchcock (1979)
* James Stewart (1980)
* Fred Astaire (1981)
* Frank Capra (1982)
* John Huston (1983)
* Lillian Gish (1984)
* Gene Kelly (1985)
* Billy Wilder (1986)
* Barbara Stanwyck (1987)
* Jack Lemmon (1988)
* Gregory Peck (1989)
* David Lean (1990)
* Kirk Douglas (1991)
* Sidney Poitier (1992)
* Elizabeth Taylor (1993)
* Jack Nicholson (1994)
* Steven Spielberg (1995)
* Clint Eastwood (1996)
* Martin Scorsese (1997)
* Robert Wise (1998)
* Dustin Hoffman (1999)
* Harrison Ford (2000)
* Barbra Streisand (2001)
* Tom Hanks (2002)
* Robert De Niro (2003)
* Meryl Streep (2004)
* George Lucas (2005)
* Sean Connery (2006)
* Al Pacino (2007)
* Warren Beatty (2008)
* Michael Douglas (2009)
* Mike Nichols (2010)
* Morgan Freeman (2011)
* Shirley MacLaine (2012)
* Mel Brooks (2013)
* Jane Fonda (2014)
* Steve Martin (2015)
* John Williams (2016)
* Diane Keaton (2017)
* George Clooney (2018)
* Denzel Washington (2019)
* Julie Andrews (2022)
* Nicole Kidman (2024)
* Francis Ford Coppola (2025)

* v
* t
* e

Critics' Choice Documentary Award for Best Narration

* Bruce Springsteen (2019)
* David Attenborough (2020)
* Jack Kilmer (2021)
* Angela Bassett (2022)
* Michael J. Fox (2023)
* Steve Martin (2024)

* v
* t
* e

Disney Legends Awards (2000s)

2000|

* Grace Bailey*
* Harriet Burns
* Joyce Carlson
* Ron Dominguez
* Cliff Edwards*
* Becky Fallberg
* Dick Jones
* Dodie Roberts
* Retta Scott*
* Ruthie Tompson

2001|

* Howard Ashman*
* Bob Broughton
* George Bruns*
* Frank Churchill*
* Leigh Harline*
* Fred Joerger
* Alan Menken
* Martin Sklar
* Ned Washington*
* Tyrus Wong

2002|

* Ken Annakin
* Hugh Attwooll
* Maurice Chevalier*
* Phil Collins
* Sir John Mills
* Robert Newton*
* Sir Tim Rice
* Robert Stevenson*
* Richard Todd
* David Tomlinson*

2003|

* Neil Beckett*
* Salvador Camarata
* Edna Francis Disney*
* Lillian Disney*
* Orlando Ferrante
* Richard Fleischer
* Floyd Gottfredson*
* Buddy Hackett*
* Harrison "Buzz" Price
* Al Taliaferro*
* Ilene Woods

2004|

* Bill Anderson*
* Tim Conway
* Rolly Crump
* Alice Davis
* Karen Dotrice
* Matthew Garber*
* Leonard H. Goldenson*
* Bob Gurr
* Ralph Kent
* Irwin Kostal*
* Mel Shaw

2005|

* Chuck Abbott*
* Milt Albright
* Hideo Amemiya*
* Hideo Aramaki
* Chuck Boyajian*
* Charles Boyer
* Randy Bright*
* James Cora
* Robert Jani*
* Mary Jones
* Art Linkletter
* Mary Anne Mang
* Steve Martin
* Tom Nabbe
* Jack Olsen*
* Cicely Rigdon
* William Sullivan
* Jack Wagner*
* Vesey Walker*

2006|

* Tim Considine
* Kevin Corcoran
* Al Dempster*
* Don Edgren
* Paul Frees*
* Peter Jennings*
* Sir Elton John
* Jimmy Johnson*
* Tommy Kirk
* Joe Ranft*
* David Stollery
* Ginny Tyler

2007|

* Roone Arledge*
* Art Babbitt*
* Carl Bongirno
* Marge Champion
* Dick Huemer*
* Ron Logan
* Lucille Martin
* Tom Murphy
* Randy Newman
* Floyd Norman
* Bob Schiffer*
* Dave Smith

2008|

* Wayne Allwine
* Bob Booth
* Neil Gallagher*
* Frank Gifford
* Burny Mattinson
* Walter Peregoy
* Dorothea Redmond
* Russi Taylor
* Toshio Kagami
* Ian McGuinness
* Barbara Walters
* Oliver Wallace*

2009|

* Tony Anselmo
* Harry Archinal
* Beatrice Arthur*
* Bill Farmer
* Estelle Getty*
* Don Iwerks
* Rue McClanahan
* Leota Toombs Thomas*
* Betty White
* Robin Williams

* Awarded posthumously

* Complete list
* 1980s
* 1990s
* 2000s
* 2010s
* 2020s

* v
* t
* e

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music

1969–2000|

* Al Carmines / Burt Bacharach (1969)
* Stephen Sondheim / Kurt Weill (1970)
* Stephen Sondheim (1971)
* Galt MacDermot (1972)
* Stephen Sondheim (1973)
* Al Carmines (1974)
* Charlie Smalls (1975)
* Marvin Hamlisch (1976)
* Cy Coleman (1977)
* Cy Coleman / Carol Hall (1978)
* Stephen Sondheim (1979)
* Andrew Lloyd Webber (1980)
* Maury Yeston (1982)
* Andrew Lloyd Webber (1983)
* Jerry Herman (1984)
* Larry Grossman (1985)
* Rupert Holmes (1986)
* Noel Gay / Claude-Michel Schönberg (1987)
* Andrew Lloyd Webber (1988)
* Cy Coleman (1990)
* Cy Coleman (1991)
* Erik Frandsen, Michael Garin, Paul Lockheart, and Robert Hipkins (1992)
* Marvin Hamlisch (1993)
* Stephen Sondheim (1994)
* Jonathan Larson (1996)
* Cy Coleman (1997)
* Stephen Flaherty (1998)
* Jason Robert Brown (1999)
* Andrew Lippa (2000)

2001–present|

* David Yazbek (2001)
* Jason Robert Brown (2002)
* Marc Shaiman (2003)
* Jeanine Tesori (2004)
* Adam Guettel (2005)
* Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison (2006)
* Duncan Sheik (2007)
* Stew and Heidi Rodewald (2008)
* Elton John (2009)
* David Bryan (2010)
* Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone (2011)
* Alan Menken (2012)
* David Byrne and Fatboy Slim (2013)
* Jason Robert Brown (2014)
* Lin-Manuel Miranda (2015)
* Steve Martin and Edie Brickell (2016)
* David Yazbek (2017)
* David Friedman (2018)
* David Yazbek (2019)
* Dave Malloy (2020)
* No Award (2021)
* Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss (2022)
* Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally (2023)
* Shaina Taub (2024)

* v
* t
* e

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series (1957–1969)

* Billy Friedberg, Nat Hiken, Coleman Jacoby, Arnold Rosen, Leonard Stern and Tony Webster (1957)
* No award (1958–1963)
* Sam Denoff, Bill Persky and Carl Reiner (1964)
* No award (1965)
* Hal Goldman, Al Gordon and Sheldon Keller (1966)
* Mel Brooks, Sam Denoff, Bill Persky, Carl Reiner and Mel Tolkin (1967)
* Chris Bearde, Phil Hahn, Jack Hanrahan, Coslough Johnson, Paul Keyes, Marc London, Allan Manings, David Panich, Hugh Wedlock Jr. and Digby Wolfe (1968)
* Allan Blye, Bob Einstein, Carl Gottlieb, Cy Howard, Steve Martin, Jerry Music, Murray Roman, Cecil Tuck, Paul Wayne and Mason Williams (1969)

* Complete list
* (1957–1969)
* (1970–1979)
* (1980–1989)
* (1990–1999)
* (2000–2009)
* (2010–2019)
* (2020–present)

* v
* t
* e

Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album

1950s|

* "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" – Ross Bagdasarian Sr. (1958)
* The Battle of Kookamonga – Homer and Jethro / Inside Shelley Berman – Shelley Berman (1959)

1960s|

* Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris – Jo Stafford & Paul Weston / The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! – Bob Newhart (1960)
* An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May – Elaine May & Mike Nichols (1961)
* The First Family – Vaughn Meader (1962)
* "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)" – Allan Sherman (1963)
* I Started Out as a Child – Bill Cosby (1964)
* Why Is There Air? – Bill Cosby (1965)
* Wonderfulness – Bill Cosby (1966)
* Revenge – Bill Cosby (1967)
* To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With – Bill Cosby (1968)
* Sports – Bill Cosby (1969)

1970s|

* The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress – Flip Wilson (1970)
* This Is A Recording – Lily Tomlin (1971)
* FM & AM – George Carlin (1972)
* Los Cochinos – Cheech & Chong (1973)
* That Nigger's Crazy – Richard Pryor (1974)
* ...Is It Something I Said? – Richard Pryor (1975)
* Bicentennial Nigger – Richard Pryor (1976)
* Let's Get Small – Steve Martin (1977)
* A Wild and Crazy Guy – Steve Martin (1978)
* Reality...What a Concept – Robin Williams (1979)

1980s|

* No Respect – Rodney Dangerfield (1980)
* Rev. Du Rite – Richard Pryor (1981)
* Live on the Sunset Strip – Richard Pryor (1982)
* Eddie Murphy: Comedian – Eddie Murphy (1983)
* "Eat It" – "Weird Al" Yankovic (1984)
* Whoopi Goldberg (Original Broadway Show Recording) – Whoopi Goldberg (1985)
* Those of You with or Without Children, You'll Understand – Bill Cosby (1986)
* A Night at the Met – Robin Williams (1987)
* Good Morning, Vietnam – Robin Williams (1988)
* P.D.Q. Bach: 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults – Peter Schickele (1989)

1990s|

* P.D.Q. Bach: Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities – Peter Schickele (1990)
* P.D.Q. Bach: WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio – Peter Schickele (1991)
* P.D.Q. Bach: Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion – Peter Schickele (1992)
* Jammin' in New York – George Carlin (1993)
* Live from Hell – Sam Kinison (1994)
* Crank(y) Calls – Jonathan Winters (1995)
* Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations – Al Franken (1996)
* Roll with the New – Chris Rock (1997)
* The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 – Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner (1998)
* Bigger & Blacker – Chris Rock (1999)

2000s|

* Brain Droppings – George Carlin (2000)
* Napalm & Silly Putty – George Carlin (2001)
* Robin Williams: Live on Broadway – Robin Williams (2002)
* Poodle Hat – "Weird Al" Yankovic (2003)
* The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents ... America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction – Jon Stewart and the cast of The Daily Show (2004)
* Never Scared – Chris Rock (2005)
* The Carnegie Hall Performance – Lewis Black (2006)
* The Distant Future – Flight of the Conchords (2007)
* It's Bad for Ya – George Carlin (2008)
* A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! – Stephen Colbert (2009)

2010s|

* Stark Raving Black – Lewis Black (2010)
* Hilarious – Louis C.K. (2011)
* Blow Your Pants Off – Jimmy Fallon (2012)
* Calm Down Gurrl – Kathy Griffin (2013)
* Mandatory Fun – "Weird Al" Yankovic (2014)
* Live at Madison Square Garden – Louis C.K. (2015)
* Talking for Clapping – Patton Oswalt (2016)
* The Age of Spin & Deep in the Heart of Texas – Dave Chappelle (2017)
* Equanimity & The Bird Revelation – Dave Chappelle (2018)
* Sticks and Stones – Dave Chappelle (2019)

2020s|

* Black Mitzvah – Tiffany Haddish (2020)
* Sincerely Louis CK – Louis C.K. (2021)
* The Closer – Dave Chappelle (2022)
* What's In a Name? – Dave Chappelle (2023)
* The Dreamer – Dave Chappelle (2024)

* v
* t
* e

Hasty Pudding Men of the Year

* Bob Hope (1967)
* Paul Newman (1968)
* Bill Cosby (1969)
* Robert Redford (1970)
* James Stewart (1971)
* Dustin Hoffman (1972)
* Jack Lemmon (1973)
* Peter Falk (1974)
* Warren Beatty (1975)
* Robert Blake (1976)
* Johnny Carson (1977)
* Richard Dreyfuss (1978)
* Robert De Niro (1979)
* Alan Alda (1980)
* John Travolta (1981)
* James Cagney (1982)
* Steven Spielberg (1983)
* Sean Connery (1984)
* Bill Murray (1985)
* Sylvester Stallone (1986)
* Mikhail Baryshnikov (1987)
* Steve Martin (1988)
* Robin Williams (1989)
* Kevin Costner (1990)
* Clint Eastwood (1991)
* Michael Douglas (1992)
* Chevy Chase (1993)
* Tom Cruise (1994)
* Tom Hanks (1995)
* Harrison Ford (1996)
* Mel Gibson (1997)
* Kevin Kline (1998)
* Samuel L. Jackson (1999)
* Billy Crystal (2000)
* Anthony Hopkins (2001)
* Bruce Willis (2002)
* Martin Scorsese (2003)
* Robert Downey Jr. (2004)
* Tim Robbins (2005)
* Richard Gere (2006)
* Ben Stiller (2007)
* Christopher Walken (2008)
* James Franco (2009)
* Justin Timberlake (2010)
* Jay Leno (2011)
* Jason Segel (2012)
* Kiefer Sutherland (2013)
* Neil Patrick Harris (2014)
* Chris Pratt (2015)
* Joseph Gordon-Levitt (2016)
* Ryan Reynolds (2017)
* Paul Rudd (2018)
* Milo Ventimiglia (2019)
* Ben Platt (2020)
* Jason Bateman (2022)
* Bob Odenkirk (2023)
* Barry Keoghan (2024)
* Jon Hamm (2025)

* v
* t
* e

Kennedy Center Honorees (2000s)

2000|

* Mikhail Baryshnikov
* Chuck Berry
* Plácido Domingo
* Clint Eastwood
* Angela Lansbury

2001|

* Julie Andrews
* Van Cliburn
* Quincy Jones
* Jack Nicholson
* Luciano Pavarotti

2002|

* James Earl Jones
* James Levine
* Chita Rivera
* Paul Simon
* Elizabeth Taylor

2003|

* James Brown
* Carol Burnett
* Loretta Lynn
* Mike Nichols
* Itzhak Perlman

2004|

* Warren Beatty
* Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee
* Elton John
* Joan Sutherland
* John Williams

2005|

* Tony Bennett
* Suzanne Farrell
* Julie Harris
* Robert Redford
* Tina Turner

2006|

* Zubin Mehta
* Dolly Parton
* Smokey Robinson
* Steven Spielberg
* Andrew Lloyd Webber

2007|

* Leon Fleisher
* Steve Martin
* Diana Ross
* Martin Scorsese
* Brian Wilson

2008|

* Morgan Freeman
* George Jones
* Barbra Streisand
* Twyla Tharp
* Pete Townshend & Roger Daltrey

2009|

* Mel Brooks
* Dave Brubeck
* Grace Bumbry
* Robert De Niro
* Bruce Springsteen

* Complete list
* 1970s
* 1980s
* 1990s
* 2000s
* 2010s
* 2020s

* v
* t
* e

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

1975–2000|

* Al Pacino (1975)
* Robert De Niro (1976)
* Richard Dreyfuss (1977)
* Jon Voight (1978)
* Dustin Hoffman (1979)
* Robert De Niro (1980)
* Burt Lancaster (1981)
* Ben Kingsley (1982)
* Robert Duvall (1983)
* F. Murray Abraham / Albert Finney (1984)
* William Hurt (1985)
* Bob Hoskins (1986)
* Jack Nicholson / Steve Martin (1987)
* Tom Hanks (1988)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (1989)
* Jeremy Irons (1990)
* Nick Nolte (1991)
* Clint Eastwood (1992)
* Anthony Hopkins (1993)
* John Travolta (1994)
* Nicolas Cage (1995)
* Geoffrey Rush (1996)
* Robert Duvall (1997)
* Ian McKellen (1998)
* Russell Crowe (1999)
* Michael Douglas (2000)

2001–2021|

* Denzel Washington (2001)
* Daniel Day-Lewis / Jack Nicholson (2002)
* Bill Murray (2003)
* Liam Neeson (2004)
* Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005)
* Sacha Baron Cohen / Forest Whitaker (2006)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2007)
* Sean Penn (2008)
* Jeff Bridges (2009)
* Colin Firth (2010)
* Michael Fassbender (2011)
* Joaquin Phoenix (2012)
* Bruce Dern (2013)
* Tom Hardy (2014)
* Michael Fassbender (2015)
* Adam Driver (2016)
* Timothée Chalamet (2017)
* Ethan Hawke (2018)
* Antonio Banderas (2019)
* Chadwick Boseman (2020)
* Simon Rex (2021)

* v
* t
* e

Mark Twain Prize winners

* Richard Pryor (1998)
* Jonathan Winters (1999)
* Carl Reiner (2000)
* Whoopi Goldberg (2001)
* Bob Newhart (2002)
* Lily Tomlin (2003)
* Lorne Michaels (2004)
* Steve Martin (2005)
* Neil Simon (2006)
* Billy Crystal (2007)
* George Carlin (2008)
* ~~Bill Cosby~~ (2009)
* Tina Fey (2010)
* Will Ferrell (2011)
* Ellen DeGeneres (2012)
* Carol Burnett (2013)
* Jay Leno (2014)
* Eddie Murphy (2015)
* Bill Murray (2016)
* David Letterman (2017)
* Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2018)
* Dave Chappelle (2019)
* Jon Stewart (2022)
* Adam Sandler (2023)
* Kevin Hart (2024)
* Conan O'Brien (2025)

* v
* t
* e

National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor

* Michael Caine (1966)
* Rod Steiger (1967)
* Per Oscarsson (1968)
* Jon Voight (1969)
* George C. Scott (1970)
* Peter Finch (1971)
* Al Pacino (1972)
* Marlon Brando (1973)
* Jack Nicholson (1974)
* Jack Nicholson (1975)
* Robert De Niro (1976)
* Art Carney (1977)
* Gary Busey (1978)
* Dustin Hoffman (1979)
* Peter O'Toole (1980)
* Burt Lancaster (1981)
* Dustin Hoffman (1982)
* Gérard Depardieu (1983)
* Steve Martin (1984)
* Jack Nicholson (1985)
* Bob Hoskins (1986)
* Steve Martin (1987)
* Michael Keaton (1988)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (1989)
* Jeremy Irons (1990)
* River Phoenix (1991)
* Stephen Rea (1992)
* David Thewlis (1993)
* Paul Newman (1994)
* Nicolas Cage (1995)
* Eddie Murphy (1996)
* Robert Duvall (1997)
* Nick Nolte (1998)
* Russell Crowe (1999)
* Javier Bardem (2000)
* Gene Hackman (2001)
* Adrien Brody (2002)
* Bill Murray (2003)
* Jamie Foxx (2004)
* Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005)
* Forest Whitaker (2006)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2007)
* Sean Penn (2008)
* Jeremy Renner (2009)
* Jesse Eisenberg (2010)
* Brad Pitt (2011)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2012)
* Oscar Isaac (2013)
* Timothy Spall (2014)
* Michael B. Jordan (2015)
* Casey Affleck (2016)
* Daniel Kaluuya (2017)
* Ethan Hawke (2018)
* Antonio Banderas (2019)
* Delroy Lindo (2020)
* Hidetoshi Nishijima (2021)
* Colin Farrell (2022)
* Andrew Scott (2023)
* Colman Domingo (2024)

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New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor

1935–1950|

* Charles Laughton (1935)
* Walter Huston (1936)
* Paul Muni (1937)
* James Cagney (1938)
* James Stewart (1939)
* Charlie Chaplin (1940)
* Gary Cooper (1941)
* James Cagney (1942)
* Paul Lukas (1943)
* Barry Fitzgerald (1944)
* Ray Milland (1945)
* Laurence Olivier (1946)
* William Powell (1947)
* Laurence Olivier (1948)
* Broderick Crawford (1949)
* Gregory Peck (1950)

1951–1975|

* Arthur Kennedy (1951)
* Ralph Richardson (1952)
* Burt Lancaster (1953)
* Marlon Brando (1954)
* Ernest Borgnine (1955)
* Kirk Douglas (1956)
* Alec Guinness (1957)
* David Niven (1958)
* James Stewart (1959)
* Burt Lancaster (1960)
* Maximilian Schell (1961)
* No Award (1962)
* Albert Finney (1963)
* Rex Harrison (1964)
* Oskar Werner (1965)
* Paul Scofield (1966)
* Rod Steiger (1967)
* Alan Arkin (1968)
* Jon Voight (1969)
* George C. Scott (1970)
* Gene Hackman (1971)
* Laurence Olivier (1972)
* Marlon Brando (1973)
* Jack Nicholson (1974)
* Jack Nicholson (1975)

1976–2000|

* Robert De Niro (1976)
* John Gielgud (1977)
* Jon Voight (1978)
* Dustin Hoffman (1979)
* Robert De Niro (1980)
* Burt Lancaster (1981)
* Ben Kingsley (1982)
* Robert Duvall (1983)
* Steve Martin (1984)
* Jack Nicholson (1985)
* Bob Hoskins (1986)
* Jack Nicholson (1987)
* Jeremy Irons (1988)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (1989)
* Robert De Niro (1990)
* Anthony Hopkins (1991)
* Denzel Washington (1992)
* David Thewlis (1993)
* Paul Newman (1994)
* Nicolas Cage (1995)
* Geoffrey Rush (1996)
* Peter Fonda (1997)
* Nick Nolte (1998)
* Richard Farnsworth (1999)
* Tom Hanks (2000)

2001–present|

* Tom Wilkinson (2001)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2002)
* Bill Murray (2003)
* Paul Giamatti (2004)
* Heath Ledger (2005)
* Forest Whitaker (2006)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2007)
* Sean Penn (2008)
* George Clooney (2009)
* Colin Firth (2010)
* Brad Pitt (2011)
* Daniel Day-Lewis (2012)
* Robert Redford (2013)
* Timothy Spall (2014)
* Michael Keaton (2015)
* Casey Affleck (2016)
* Timothée Chalamet (2017)
* Ethan Hawke (2018)
* Antonio Banderas (2019)
* Delroy Lindo (2020)
* Benedict Cumberbatch (2021)
* Colin Farrell (2022)
* Franz Rogowski (2023)
* Adrien Brody (2024)

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TCA Career Achievement Award

* Grant Tinker (1985)
* Walter Cronkite (1986)
* Hill Street Blues (1987)
* David Brinkley (1988)
* Lucille Ball (1989)
* Jim Henson (1990)
* Brandon Tartikoff (1991)
* Johnny Carson (1992)
* Bob Hope (1993)
* Charles Kuralt (1994)
* Ted Turner (1995)
* Angela Lansbury (1996)
* Fred Rogers (1997)
* Roone Arledge (1998)
* Norman Lear (1999)
* Dick Van Dyke (2000)
* Sid Caesar (2001)
* ~~Bill Cosby~~ (2002)
* Carl Reiner (2003)
* Don Hewitt (2004)
* Bob Newhart (2005)
* Carol Burnett (2006)
* Mary Tyler Moore (2007)
* Lorne Michaels (2008)
* Betty White (2009)
* James Garner (2010)
* Oprah Winfrey (2011)
* David Letterman (2012)
* Barbara Walters (2013)
* James Burrows (2014)
* James L. Brooks (2015)
* Lily Tomlin (2016)
* Ken Burns (2017)
* Rita Moreno (2018)
* David Milch (2019)
* Alex Trebek (2020)
* Jean Smart (2021)
* Ted Danson / Steve Martin (2022)
* Mel Brooks (2023)
* Andre Braugher (2024)

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Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Adapted Drama
(1969–1983)|

* Waldo Salt (1969)
* Robert Anderson (1970)
* Ernest Tidyman (1971)
* Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo (1972)
* Waldo Salt & Norman Wexler (1973)
* Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo (1974)
* Bo Goldman & Lawrence Hauben (1975)
* William Goldman (1976)
* Alvin Sargent (1977)
* Oliver Stone (1978)
* Robert Benton (1979)
* Alvin Sargent (1980)
* Ernest Thompson (1981)
* Costa-Gavras & Donald E. Stewart (1982)
* Julius J. Epstein (1983)

Adapted Comedy
(1969–1983)|

* Arnold Schulman (1969)
* Ring Lardner Jr. (1970)
* John Paxton (1971)
* Jay Presson Allen (1972)
* Alvin Sargent (1973)
* Lionel Chetwynd & Mordecai Richler (1974)
* Neil Simon (1975)
* Blake Edwards & Frank Waldman (1976)
* Larry Gelbart (1977)
* Elaine May & Warren Beatty (1978)
* Jerzy Kosiński (1979)
* Jim Abrahams, David Zucker & Jerry Zucker (1980)
* Gerald Ayres (1981)
* Blake Edwards (1982)
* James L. Brooks (1983)

Adapted Screenplay
(1984–present)|

* Bruce Robinson (1984)
* Richard Condon & Janet Roach (1985)
* Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1986)
* Steve Martin (1987)
* Christopher Hampton (1988)
* Alfred Uhry (1989)
* Michael Blake (1990)
* Ted Tally (1991)
* Michael Tolkin (1992)
* Steven Zaillian (1993)
* Eric Roth (1994)
* Emma Thompson (1995)
* Billy Bob Thornton (1996)
* Curtis Hanson & Brian Helgeland (1997)
* Scott Frank (1998)
* Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor (1999)
* Stephen Gaghan (2000)
* Akiva Goldsman (2001)
* David Hare (2002)
* Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini (2003)
* Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor (2004)
* Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana (2005)
* William Monahan (2006)
* Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (2007)
* Simon Beaufoy (2008)
* Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Alexander Payne, Jim Rash & Nat Faxon (2011)
* Chris Terrio (2012)
* Billy Ray (2013)
* Graham Moore (2014)
* Adam McKay & Charles Randolph (2015)
* Eric Heisserer (2016)
* James Ivory (2017)
* Nicole Holofcener & Jeff Whitty (2018)
* Taika Waititi (2019)
* Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Mazer, Jena Friedman, Lee Kern & Nina Pedrad (2020)
* Sian Heder (2021)
* Sarah Polley (2022)
* Cord Jefferson (2023)
* RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes (2024)

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