Awards & Winners

Sam Shepard

Date of Birth 05-November-1943
Place of Birth Fort Sheridan
(Illinois, Lake County)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Samuel Shepard Rogers, Charlie, Samuel Shepard Rogers IV, Shepard, Sam, Steve Shepard, Samuel Shepard Rogers III
Profession Playwright, Actor, Author, Writer, Screenwriter, Film director, Television Director, Musician, Teacher, Voice Actor, Essayist
Sam Shepard is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is the author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child. Shepard was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff. Shepard received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009.

Awards by Sam Shepard

Check all the awards nominated and won by Sam Shepard.

2014


Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award
Honored for : Mud

Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture August: Osage County
Role: Jean Fordham","Role: Charles Aiken","Role: \u201CLittle\u201D Charles Aiken","Role: Karen Weston","Role: Mattie Fae Aiken","Role: Bill Fordham","Role: Steve","Role: Ivy Weston","Role: Barbara Weston","Role: Beverly Weston","Role: Violet Weston","Role: Johnna

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Ruffian
Role: Frank Whiteley

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play True West
Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Dash and Lilly
role: Dashiell Hammett

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie Dash and Lilly
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or Movie

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play Buried Child

1987


Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play A Lie of the Mind
BBC Award for the Play of the Year

1986


Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play
Honored for : A Lie of the Mind

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play A Lie of the Mind

1985


Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay, Adapted Paris, Texas

1984


Obie Award for Direction
Honored for : Fool for Love
Obie Award for Best New American Play
Honored for : Fool for Love

Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Drama Fool for Love

1983


Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role The Right Stuff
Role: Chuck Yeager
Pulitzer Prize for Drama True West
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play True West

1980


Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement
(Obie Award for Sustained Achievement)

1979


Obie Award for Playwriting
Honored for : Buried Child
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Honored for : Buried Child

1977


Obie Award for Best New American Play
Honored for : Curse of the Starving Class

1975


Obie Award for Playwriting
Honored for : Action

1973


Obie Award for Distinguished Plays
Honored for : The Tooth of Crime

1968


Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
(Drama & Performance Art)
Obie Award for Distinguished Plays
Honored for : Forensic and the Navigators, Melodrama Play

1967


Obie Award for Distinguished Plays
Honored for : La turista

1966


Obie Award for Distinguished Plays
Honored for : Icarus's Mother, Chicago, Red Cross