Arliss Howard
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Awards and Nominations
Emmy (Primetime)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
Nominated
Golden Globe
Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Nominated
Academy Award
Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts
Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated
- She has been nominated for four Golden Globe awards, two BAFTA awards, an Emmy Award, and won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for Terms of Endearment and the Tokyo International Film Festival Award for Best Actress for A Dangerous Woman.
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1983 Nominee Oscar. Best Actress in a Leading Role. An Officer and a Gentleman. BAFTA Awards. 1994 Nominee BAFTA Film Award. Best Actress. Shadowlands. 1981 Nominee BAFTA Film Award. Most Outstanding Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. Urban Cowboy. Critics Choice Awards. 2009 Nominee Critics Choice Award. Best Acting Ensemble. Rachel Getting Married.
- May 16, 1955
Debra Lynn Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an American actress. She starred in the films An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Terms of Endearment (1983), and Shadowlands (1993), each of which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
She has been nominated for four Golden Globe awards, two BAFTA awards, an Emmy Award, and won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for Terms of Endearment and the Tokyo International Film Festival Award for Best Actress for A Dangerous Woman.
Debra's reputation as a great talent, as well as her reputation as a difficult actress grew with her next film, Terms of Endearment (1983), which not only earned her a second Oscar nomination as Best Actress but also won the Best Picture as well. She also earned the Best Actress Award from the National Society of Film Critics.
- Actress, Producer, Additional Crew
- May 16, 1955
- 2 min
- TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983) Writer/Director: James L. Brooks. Starring Debra Winger, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson, John Lithgow, Danny DeVito. Arguably Winger’s greatest screen triumph was in James L. Brooks’s film, which won the Oscar as the Best Picture of 1983.
- AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN (1982) Director: Taylor Hackford. Writer: Douglas Day Stewart. Starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith, Louis Gossett Jr.
- URBAN COWBOY (1980) Director: James Bridges. Writers: James Bridges, Aaron Latham. Starring John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn, Barry Corbin. Winger burst onto the worldwide movie scene in James Bridges’ film in which Winger co-stars as Sissy, an independent young woman who meets (and eventually marries) Bud (John Travolta) at Gilley’s, the famed honky-tonk bar in Pasadena, TX where construction workers by day dress up and pretend to be cowboys at night.
- SHADOWLANDS (1993) Director: Richard Attenborough. Writer: William Nicholson, based on his play and TV film. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Edward Hardwicke.
Best Actor winner for Tender Mercies, with presenter Dolly Parton. Horton Foote. Original Screenplay winner, with presenters Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek. James L. Brooks, Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson. Terms of Endearment winners for Directing/Best Picture/Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress, and Supporting Actor. View More Memorable Moments.
Mary Debra Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an American actress. A three-time Oscar nominee, she received awards for acting in Terms of Endearment, for which she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1983, and in A Dangerous Woman, for which she won the Tokyo International Film Festival Award for Best Actress in 1993.
