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Screen Actors Guild Awards
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Nominated
Emmy (Primetime)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
Won
Nominated
Golden Globe
Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Won
Nominated
Academy Award
Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts
Actress
Won
Burstyn has received what's known as the Triple Crown of Acting winning the Emmy Award, Academy Award, and Tony Award. She has received six Oscar nominations winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her leading role in Martin Scorsese 's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974).
Academy Awards, USA. 2001 Nominee Oscar. Best Actress in a Leading Role. Requiem for a Dream. 1981 Nominee Oscar. Best Actress in a Leading Role. Resurrection. 1979 Nominee Oscar. Best Actress in a Leading Role.
At the annual Golden Globe Awards, Burstyn won Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, while the film received two other nominations—Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Alda and Best Original Song.
In 1974, she starred in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), for which performance she won the Oscar and BAFTA awards as Best Actress. For the Golden Globe, she was nominated but lost to Marsha Mason. The same year, she made history by winning a Tony Award for the Broadway play "Same Time, Next Year".
Burstyn received a second Academy Award nomination for her lead performance in The Exorcist, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress the following year for her work in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.
In television, Burstyn won an Emmy Award for her guest appearance in Law & Order: SVU (2009), and received Emmy nominations for her title role in The People vs. Jean Harris (1981), her starring role in Pack of Lies (1987), a Hallmark Hall of Fame television production, and for HBO’s Big Love (2008).
Jun 24, 2024 · She received an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress for The Last Picture Show (1971), about life in a small Texas town. In The Exorcist (1973), Burstyn played a woman whose daughter (played by Linda Blair) has been demonically possessed.
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Dec 7, 2022 · Again, Burstyn would be Oscar nominated for her performance, one of her six nominations to date. A year later, she won the award for a film she was instrumental in developing: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), the story of a widow striving to make a new life for herself.
Jack Lemmon presenting Ellen Burstyn the Oscar® for Best Actress for her performance in " Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" at the 47th Academy Awards® in 1975. Award accepted by Martin...