Awards & Winners

Jimmy Durante

Date of Birth 10-February-1893
Place of Birth Brooklyn
(United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as James Francis Durante, Ragtime Jimmy, The Schnoz, The Great Schnozzola, Schnozzola, Durante, Jimmy 'Schnozzle' Durante, James Francis "Jimmy" Durante
Profession Comedian, Singer, Actor, Pianist
James Francis "Jimmy" Durante was an American singer, pianist, comedian, and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. His jokes about his nose included referring to it as a Schnozzola, and the word became his nickname.

Awards by Jimmy Durante

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jimmy Durante.

1963


Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Billy Rose's Jumbo

1953


Primetime Emmy Award for Best Comedian

Nominations 1953 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Comedian
Primetime Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Personality

1952


Nominations 1952 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Comedian Or Comedienne

1950


Peabody Award
(a Personal Award)