This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Rita Moreno.
Rita Moreno is a Puerto Rican actress, singer, and dancer. With a career spanning nearly 80 years in the entertainment industry, Moreno is one of a few individuals to have won the four major annual American entertainment awards: an EGOT (an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony). She also received a Golden Globe Award, and Peabody Award as well as nominations for a British Academy Film Award.
Moreno won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her iconic performance as Anita in the musical film West Side Story (1961). She also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture. For work on television, she won two Primetime Emmy Awards for her guest roles on The Muppet Show (1977), and The Rockford Files (1978). For playing Googie Gomez in the Broadway play The Ritz she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She reprised the role in the 1976 film adaptation for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She won the Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album for The Electric Company (1973).
She is also one of the few performers who have achieved the "Triple Crown of Acting", with individual competitive Academy, Emmy, and Tony awards for acting; she, Helen Hayes, and Viola Davis are the only three who have achieved both distinctions in their lifetimes. She has won numerous honors including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1995, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004, the National Medal of Arts in 2009, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2013, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2015, and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2018.
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1961 Best Supporting Actress West Side Story
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result British Academy Film Award 1976 Best Actress in a Leading Role The Ritz
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Award 1975Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in Variety or MusicOut to Lunch 1977 The Muppet Show 1978 Outstanding Single Appearance in a SeriesThe Rockford Files 1979 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series 1982 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Portrait of a Showgirl 1983 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series 9 to 5 Daytime Emmy Awards 1982 Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming CBS Library 1995Outstanding Performer in an Animated ProgramWhere on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? 1996 1997
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1961 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture West Side Story 1976Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or ComedyThe Ritz 1982 Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy 9 to 5
Grammy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Grammy Awards 1962 Album of the Year West Side Story 1973 Best Album for Children The Electric Company Latin Grammy Award 2012Lifetime Achievement Award
Screen Actors Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2013Life Achievement Award
Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1975 Best Supporting or Featured Actress in a Play The Ritz
Miscellaneous awards Organizations Year Category Work Result ALMA Awards1998 Best Actress in a Drama Series Oz Lifetime Achievement Award 1999 Best Actress Slums of Beverly Hills Best Actress in a Drama SeriesOz 2000 2001Best Actress in a Television Series 2002 CableACE Awards1997 Best Actress in a Dramatic Series Oz Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2022 Best Supporting Actress West Side Story Critics' Choice Television Awards 2017Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy SeriesOne Day at a Time 2018 2021 Drama Desk Awards 1975 Outstanding Actress in a Play The Ritz 1977 Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical She Loves Me Imagen Foundation Awards 2012 Happily Divorced Best Actress on Television 2017Best Supporting Actress on TelevisionOne Day at a Time 2018 2019 Laurel Awards1962 Top Female Supporting Performance West Side Story London Film Critics' Circle 2021 Best Supporting Actress West Side Story (2021) NAACP Image Awards 1999Outstanding Actress in a Drama SeriesOz 2000 2003 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Online Film & TV Awards1998 Best Actress in a Cable SeriesOz Best Ensemble in a Cable Series 1999 Best Actress in a Cable Series Best Ensemble in a Cable Series 2015 Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Jane the Virgin 2017 Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy SeriesOne Day at a Time Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series Television Hall of Fame: Actors Sarah Siddons Award 1985 Distinguished Performance The Odd Couple Satellite Awards 1998 Best Actress – Television Series Drama Oz Time 2019 Woman of the Year (1961) In 2019, Time created 89 new covers to celebrate women of the year starting from 1920; it chose Moreno for 1961.
Honorary awards and citations Organizations Year Notes Result Joseph Jefferson Award 1968 Best Chicago Theatre Actress Hollywood Walk of Fame 1995 Motion Picture Star Library of Congress 2000 Living Legends Award International Latin Music Hall of Fame 2001 Special Recognition Award Presidential Medal of Freedom 2004 Medal National Medal of Arts 2009 Medal Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award Latin Grammy Awards 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award Screen Actors Guild Awards 2013 Life Achievement Award Kennedy Center Honors 2015 Medal Berklee College of Music 2016 Honorary doctorate of music Rita Moreno honored at commencement , Berklee College of Music official site, May 2016. Ellis Island Medal of Honor 2018 Medal Peabody Awards 2019 Career Achievement Award Rose Parade 2020 Grand Marshal Actresses, gymnast named grand marshals of 2020 Rose Parade , AP, October 15, 2019 BBC News 2022 BBC 100 Women Dorian Awards 2022 Timeless Star Trilby Beresford, The Hollywood Reporter,
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