Maggie Smith was a British actress. She is the recipient of numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, five British Academy Film Awards, a Tony Award, four Primetime Emmy Awards, five Actor Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. She is one of few performers who have been awarded a Triple Crown of Acting (Oscar, Tony and Emmy).
Smith began her stage career as a student, performing at the Oxford Playhouse in 1952, and made her Broadway theatre debut in 1956. For her work at the West End theatre, she received six nominations for Laurence Olivier Awards and won six Evening Standard Theatre Awards. For her work at Broadway, she received three Tony Awards nominations, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage (1990). She made her film debut in Child in the House (1956). She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Film for Nowhere to Go (1958), for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress for The V.I.P.s (1963) and for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Othello (1965). The role which brought her international fame was in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She received her second Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actress, for California Suite (1978), as well as nominations for Travels with My Aunt (1972), A Room with a View (1985) and Gosford Park (2001). She won four subsequent BAFTA Awards: as the Best Actress in a Leading Role for A Private Function (1984), A Room with a View (1985) and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987), and as the Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Tea with Mussolini (1999). She also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for California Suite (1978) and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for A Room with a View (1985).
She appeared in multiple television series and television films, receiving five nominations for the British Academy Television Awards. She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for the HBO television film My House in Umbria (2003). She gained worldwide attention and acclaim for her performance in the ITV television series Downton Abbey, earning three Primetime Emmy Awards (one for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and two for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series), the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and four Screen Actors Guild Awards (one for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series and three shared for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series).
She has received multiple numerous honorary accolades including the BAFTA Special Award (1993), the BAFTA Fellowship (1996), the Society of London Theatre Special Award (2010), the Evening Standard Theatre Award for the Theatre Icon (2013) and the Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts (2016). She received several state honours and honorary degrees. In 1990, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II.
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Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Work Result 1966 Best Supporting Actress Othello 1970 Best Actress 1973 Travels with My Aunt 1979 Best Supporting Actress California Suite 1987 2002 Gosford Park
Actor Awards Year Category Work Result 2002 Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture Gosford Park 2012 Outstanding Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Downton Abbey 2013 Outstanding Female Actor in a Supporting Role Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture Outstanding Female Actor in a Drama Series Downton Abbey Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series 2014 Outstanding Female Actor in a Drama Series Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series 2015 Outstanding Female Actor in a Drama Series Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series 2016 Outstanding Female Actor in a Drama Series Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series 2017
BAFTA Awards Year Category Work Result British Academy Film Awards 1959 Most Promising Newcomer to Film Nowhere to Go 1966 Best British Actress Young Cassidy 1970 Best Actress in a Leading Role 1979 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Death on the Nile 1980 Best Actress in a Leading Role California Suite 1982 Quartet 1985 1987 1989 1994 Best Actress in a Supporting Role 2000 Tea with Mussolini 2002 Gosford Park 2016 Best Actress in a Leading Role British Academy Television Awards 1984 Best Actress All for Love (episode: "Mrs. Silly") 1989 Talking Heads (episode: "Bed Among the Lentils") 1993 Screen Two (episode: "Memento Mori") 2000 David Copperfield 2012 Best Supporting Actress Downton Abbey Honorary awards 1993 Special Award 1996 BAFTA Fellowship
Emmy Awards Year Category Work Result Primetime Emmy Awards 1993 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special Great Performances (episode: "Suddenly Last Summer") 2000 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie David Copperfield 2003 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie My House in Umbria 2010 Capturing Mary 2011 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie Downton Abbey 2012 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series 2013 2014 2016
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Work Result 1964 New Star of the Year – Actress 1966 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Othello 1970 1973 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Travels with My Aunt 1979 California Suite 1987 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture 2002 Gosford Park 2004 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film My House in Umbria 2012 Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Downton Abbey 2013 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Quartet 2016
Laurence Olivier Awards Year Category Work Result 1981 Actress of the Year in a New Play Virginia 1985 Comedy Performance of the Year 1987 Actress of the Year Lettice and Lovage and Coming into Land 1994 Best Comedy Performance 1998 Best Actress 2000 2010 Special Award
Tony Awards Year Category Work Result 1975 Best Actress in a Play Private Lives 1980 Night and Day 1990 Lettice and Lovage
Miscellaneous awards
+ Award Year Category Work Result AARP Movies for Grownups Awards 2002 Best Actress Gosford Park 2003 Breakaway Performance Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood 2007 Best Actress Keeping Mum 2015 My Old Lady 2016 2020 Best Supporting Actress Downton Abbey Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2018 Actress Defying Age and Ageism Nothing Like a Dame 2019 Downton Abbey British Independent Film Awards 2012 Best Supporting Actress Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2008 Best Actress Capturing Mary 2011 Downton Abbey Chicago Film Critics Association 2002 Best Supporting Actress Gosford Park Chlotrudis Society for Independent Films 1998 Best Supporting Actress Washington Square 2016 Distinguished Service to the Arts Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association 2002 Best Supporting Actress Gosford Park Drama Desk Awards 1975 Outstanding Actress in a Play Private Lives European Film Awards 2002 People's Choice Award – Best European Actress Gosford Park 2005 Best Actress Ladies in Lavender Evening Standard British Film Awards 1980 Best Actress California Suite 1982 Quartet 1989 2016 Evening Standard Theatre Awards 1962 Best Actress 1970 Hedda Gabler 1981 Virginia 1984 1994 Three Tall Women 2013 Theatre Icon Award 2019 Best Actress Golden Nymph Awards 2011 Outstanding Actress – Drama Series Downton Abbey 2013 2014 Helpmann Awards 2004 Best Female Actor in a Play Talking Heads Kansas City Film Critics Circle 1978 Best Supporting Actress California Suite 1986 2001 Gosford Park Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards 1970 Best Performance Three Sisters National Film Awards 2016 Best Breakthrough Performance National Society of Film Critics 1979 Best Actress California Suite Best Supporting Actress 2002 Gosford Park National Television Awards 2014 Most Popular Drama Performance Downton Abbey 2015 New York Film Critics Circle 1969 Best Actress Oh! What a Lovely War Best Supporting Actress 1978 California Suite 2001 Gosford Park New York Film Critics Online 2001 Best Supporting Actress Gosford Park Online Film Critics Society 2001 Best Supporting Actress Gosford Park Outer Critics Circle Awards 1975 Best Performance Private Lives 1990 Outstanding Actress in a Play Lettice and Lovage People's Choice Awards 2013 Favorite Movie Icon 2014 Favorite Cable TV Actress Phoenix Film Critics Society 2002 Best Supporting Actress Gosford Park Royal Television Society Programme Awards 1989 Best Performance: Female Talking Heads San Diego Film Critics Society 2001 Best Supporting Actress Gosford Park Satellite Awards 2002 Best Supporting Actress – Comedy or Musical Gosford Park 2004 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film My House in Umbria 2011 Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Downton Abbey 2012 Saturn Awards 1982 Best Supporting Actress Clash of the Titans 2002 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Shakespeare Theatre Company 1999 Will Award Southeastern Film Critics Association 2001 Best Supporting Actress Gosford Park Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 2003 Worst Fake Accent – Female Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Stratford Festival 2012 Legacy Award Women Film Critics Circle 2012 Best Comedic Actress Women's Work: Best Ensemble Women's Image Network Awards 2010 Actress Mini-Series / Made for Television Movie Capturing Mary
Honours State honours Country Honor Year United Kingdom Commander of the Order of the British Empire 1970 Damehood 1990 Order of the Companions of Honour 2014
Miscellaneous honours Organization Honor Year Bodleian Library Bodley Medal 2016 British Film Institute British Film Institute Fellowship 1992 Mansfield College, Oxford Honorary Fellowship 2017 University of Bath Doctor of Letters 1986 University of Cambridge Doctor of Letters 1994 University of St Andrews Honorary degree 1971
See also List of Maggie Smith performances Triple Crown of Acting EGOT List of Academy Award winners and nominees from Great Britain List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories List of actors with Academy Award nominations List of actors with more than one Academy Award nomination in the acting categories
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External links Awards and nominations for Maggie Smith on the Internet Movie Database Awards and nominations for Maggie Smith on the Internet Broadway Database