This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Sir Stephen Fry
Sir Stephen Fry is an English actor, comedian, author, presenter, and playwright. Known for his extensive roles and works on stage and screen, he has received various accolades including a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for 11 BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Grammy Award and Tony Award.
As a presenter and host of the popular BBC quiz show QI from 2003 to 2016, he received six nominations for the British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance. He starred in the two part documentary series Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive (2006) for which he was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Factual Series or Strand. He helmed over the docu-series Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press earning a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Specialist Factual.
As an actor, he portrayed author Oscar Wilde in the Brian Gilbert directed biographical romantic drama film Wilde (1998) for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama nomination. He also narrated, Oscar Wilde: The Selfish Giant & The Nightingale And The Rose earning a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children. Fry portrayed a clueless but affable police inspector in the Robert Altman directed British ensemble murder mystery film Gosford Park (2001), for which he won alongside the ensemble the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble.
For his work on the Broadway stage he received two Tony Award nominations, one for Best Book of a Musical for Me and My Girl in 1987 and another for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Malvolio in the revival of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in 2014.
Aside from being given Knighthood from King Charles III in 2025, Fry was also made a Grand Commander of the Order of the Phoenix by the President of Greece in 2021. Fry has been honored with several other accolades including the National Television Special Recognition Award in 2010, the British LGBT Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019, and the Global Icon Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival in 2025. He is an Elected Fellow at both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts and has received Honorary Degrees from several institutions including the University of Dundee, the University of East Anglia, Anglia Ruskin University, the University of Sussex and KU Leuven, Belgium.
Major associations BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result British Academy Television Awards2004 Best Entertainment Performance QI 2005 2007 Best Factual Series Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive 2008 Best Entertainment Performance QI 2009 Best Specialist Factual Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press Best Entertainment Performance QI 2010 2011 2012 Best Performer LittleBigPlanet 2 2016 Entertainment Performance QI
Critics' Choice Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2001 Best Acting Ensemble Gosford Park
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1999 Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Wilde
Grammy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2002 Best Spoken Word Album for Children Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince and Other Tales 2023 Album of the Year Music of the Spheres
Screen Actors Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2001 Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture Gosford Park
Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1987 Best Book of a Musical Me and My Girl 2014 Best Featured Actor in a Play Twelfth Night
Miscellaneous awards AssociationYearCategoryNominated workResult British Comedy Awards 2007 Best Entertainment Performance QI 2012 Best Entertainment Performance QI British Independent Film Awards 2003 Douglas Hilcox Award Bright Young Things Emden International Film Festival 2004 Emden Film Award Bright Young Things Florida Film Critics Circle 2001 Best Acting Ensemble Gosford Park Phoenix Film Critics Society 2001 Best Acting Ensemble Gosford Park Satellite Awards 1998 Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama Wilde 2001 Best Acting Ensemble Gosford Park Seattle International Film Festival 1998 Best Actor Wilde Sidewise Award for Alternate History 1998 Best Long Form Making History
Honorary awards Organizations Year Award Result British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 2006 Ranked sixth for Top Living Icon Award Radio Times 2006 Voted "Most Intelligent Man on Television" Independent on Sunday 2007 Named the 2nd most influential gay person in Britain Broadcast Magazine 2007 Listed #4 in its "Hot 100" list of influential on-screen performers British Comedy Awards 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award The Noël Coward Society 2009 Vice-President Royal College of Psychiatrists 2009 Honorary Fellow The Royal College of Psychiatrists' Winter Business Meeting 2009 - website of Cambridge University Press Cardiff University 2010 Honorary Fellow Queens' College, Cambridge 2010 Honorary Fellow National Television Awards 2010 Special Recognition Award Harvard University 2011 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism Union of UEA Students 2012 Honorary Life Membership of the Union British LGBT Awards 2016 Global Icon 2019 Lifetime Achievement Royal Society of Literature 2019 Elected Fellow President of Greece 2021 Grand Commander of the Order of the Phoenix Society of Authors 2023 Fellow SoA profiles: Stephen Fry, Fellow - website of the Society of Authors Royal Canadian Geographical Society 2024 Honorary Fellow Stephen Fry becomes an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society - website of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society King Charles III 2025 Knight Bachelor Newport Beach Film Festival 2025 Global Icon Award Royal Society of Arts N/A Elected Fellow Fry and Mosse join SoA fellowship - website of the British magazine The Bookseller
Honorary degrees Institution Year Degree Result University of Dundee 1995 LL.D. (Doctor of Laws) University of East Anglia 1999 D.Litt. (Doctor of Letters) Anglia Ruskin University 2005 D.Univ. (Doctor of the University) University of Sussex 2021 D.Univ. (Doctor of the University) KU Leuven, Belgium 2025 Honorary Doctorate (Arts)
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