Awards & Winners

Larry McMurtry

Date of Birth 03-June-1936
Place of Birth Archer City
(Archer County, Texas)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Larry Jeff McMurtry
Profession Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Essayist, Author
Larry Jeff McMurtry is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas. He is known for his 1975 novel Terms of Endearment, his 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, a historical saga that follows ex-Texas Rangers as they drive their cattle from the Rio Grande to a new home in the frontier of Montana, and for co-writing the adapted screenplay for Brokeback Mountain. Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries and both the films of Terms of Endearment and Brokeback Mountain won Academy Awards.

Awards by Larry McMurtry

Check all the awards nominated and won by Larry McMurtry.

2006


BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay, Adapted
Honored for : Brokeback Mountain
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Honored for : Brokeback Mountain
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Honored for : Brokeback Mountain

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Brokeback Mountain
BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay, Adapted Brokeback Mountain
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture Brokeback Mountain

2005


Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay
Honored for : Brokeback Mountain

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay Brokeback Mountain
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay Brokeback Mountain
Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Brokeback Mountain
10th Satellite Awards

1998


Spur Award for Best Novel of the West
Honored for : Comanche Moon

1988


Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special The Murder of Mary Phagan

1986


Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Honored for : Lonesome Dove
Helmerich Award

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Lonesome Dove
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Lonesome Dove

1985


Spur Award for Best Western Novel
Honored for : Lonesome Dove

1973


Nominations 1973 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay The Last Picture Show

1972


Nominations 1972 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Drama The Last Picture Show

1971


Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay The Last Picture Show