Awards & Winners

Athol Fugard

Date of Birth 11-June-1932
Place of Birth Middelburg, Eastern Cape
(South Africa, Eastern Cape)
Nationality South Africa, United States of America
Also know as Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard
Profession Writer, Playwright, Novelist, Actor, Teacher, Theatre Director, Screenwriter
Athol Fugard is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English. He is best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy Award-winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood. Fugard is an adjunct professor of playwriting, acting and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego. For the academic year 2000–2001, he was the IU Class of 1963 Wells Scholar Professor at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana. The recipient of many awards, honours, and honorary degrees, including the 2005 Order of Ikhamanga in Silver "for his excellent contribution and achievements in the theatre" from the government of South Africa, he is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Awards by Athol Fugard

Check all the awards nominated and won by Athol Fugard.

2011


Special Tony Award
(For Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre)

2010


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Neustadt International Prize for Literature

1996


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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play Valley Song

1992


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

1990


Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Director, Non-Resident Production
Honored for : The Road to Mecca
(for the production at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater.)

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Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Director, Non-Resident Production The Road to Mecca
for the production at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater.

1988


Nominations 1988 »

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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play The Road to Mecca
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play The Road to Mecca

1986


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Tony Award for Best Play Blood Knot

1985


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Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play The Road to Mecca
Play of the Year

1984


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Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play \"Master Harold\"...and the Boys
Play of the Year

1982


Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Director
Honored for : Master Harold...and the Boys

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Award Nominated Nominated Work
Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Director Master Harold...and the Boys
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play Master Harold...and the Boys
Tony Award for Best Play Master Harold...and the Boys
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play Master Harold...and the Boys

1981


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Tony Award for Best Play A Lesson from Aloes

1980


Nominations 1980 »

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Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play A Lesson from Aloes
Play of the Year

1975


Nominations 1975 »

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Tony Award for Best Play Sizwe Banzi is Dead
Tony Award for Best Play The Island
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play Sizwe Banzi is Dead
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play The Island
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play Sizwe Banzi is Dead
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play The Island
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play (Foreign) Sizwe Banzi Is Dead
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play (Foreign) The Island

1971


Obie Award for Best Foreign Play
Honored for : Boesman and Lena