Shirley MacLaine (born 1934) is an American actress. She is known for her work in film and television and is one of the last remaining stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. She has received various accolades including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and six Golden Globe Awards as well as a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
She gained stardom for her role as lonely elevator girl in the Billy Wilder directed romantic drama The Apartment (1960) as well as Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress as well as nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She was further Oscar-nominated for Best Actress for her performances as the fun loving central character in the drama Some Came Running (1958), a prostitute in the romantic comedy Irma La Douce (1963), a ballerina in the drama The Turning Point (1977). For her portrayal of a difficult mother in the emotional family drama Terms of Endearment (1983) she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.
MacLaine's acting debut came with Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry (1955) and followed by roles in Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Ocean's 11 (1960), The Children's Hour (1961), Sweet Charity (1969), Being There (1979), Madame Sousatzka (1988), Steel Magnolias (1989), Postcards from the Edge (1990), Used People (1992), Guarding Tess (1994), In Her Shoes (2005), Coco Chanel (2008), and Bernie (2011).
On television, she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special for Gypsy in My Soul (1976). She was nominated for four other variety specials in that category. For her portrayal of the fashion designer Coco Chanel in the HBO film Coco Chanel (2008), she was also nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Television Movie.
Over her career she has received several honorary awards including a Motion Picture Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, the Film at Lincoln Center Gala Tribute in 1995, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1998, the Berlin International Film Festival's Honorary Golden Bear in 1999, the French Legion of Honor in 2001, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2012, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2013.
Major associations Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1958 Best Actress Some Came Running 1960 The Apartment 1963 Irma la Douce 1975 Best Documentary Feature The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir 1977 Best Actress The Turning Point 1983 Terms of Endearment
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result British Academy Film Awards1956 Best Foreign Actress The Trouble with Harry 1959 Ask Any Girl 1960 The Apartment 1964 Irma la Douce / What a Way to Go! 1980 Best Actress in a Leading Role Being There 1984 Terms of Endearment 1990 Postcards from the Edge Best Actress in a Supporting Role Steel Magnolias
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1954 New Star of the Year – Actress The Trouble with Harry 1958 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Some Came Running Special Achievement Award 1959 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Ask Any Girl 1960 The Apartment 1961 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama The Children's Hour 1963 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Irma la Douce 1966 Gambit 1967 Woman Times Seven 1969 Sweet Charity 1979 Being There 1983 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Terms of Endearment 1987 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Out on a Limb 1988 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Madame Sousatzka 1990 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Postcards from the Edge 1992 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Used People 1994 Guarding Tess 1997 Cecil B. DeMille Award 2002 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay 2005 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture In Her Shoes 2008 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Coco Chanel
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards1975 Outstanding Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music Special Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now 1976 Gypsy in My Soul 1977 Shirley MacLaine: Where Do We Go from Here? 1979 Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Program Shirley MacLaine at the Lido 1980 Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program Shirley MacLaine...'Every Little Movement''' | | style="text-align:center;"| |- | style="text-align:center;"| 2009 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie | Coco Chanel''
Screen Actors Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2008 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Coco Chanel
Other awards and nominations Organizations Year Category Work Result Berlin Film Festival 1959 Silver Bear for Best Actress Ask Any Girl 1971 Desperate Characters 1999 Honorary Golden Bear Venice Film Festival 1960 Volpi Cup for Best Actress The Apartment 1988 Madame Sousatzka
Honorary awards Organizations Year Award Result American Film Institute 2012 AFI Life Achievement Award Berlin International Film Festival 1999 Honorary Golden Bear Chicago Film Critics Association 2005 Career Achievement Award Elle Women in Hollywood 2005 Icon Award 2012 Woman of the Year Film Society at Lincoln Center 1995 Chaplin Gala Tribute Golden Globe Awards 1998 Cecil B. DeMille Award Government of France 2001 Legion of Honor Hollywood Walk of Fame 1960 Motion Picture Star at 1617 Vine Street John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 2013 Kennedy Center Honors Palm Springs International Film Festival 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award Telluride Film Festival 1996 Silver Medallion Award
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