Awards & Winners

John Guare

Date of Birth 05-February-1938
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Playwright, Screenwriter, Author, Lyricist
John Guare is an American playwright. He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, and Landscape of the Body. His style, which mixes comic invention with an acute sense of the failure of human relations and aspirations, is at once cruel and deeply compassionate. In the foreword to a collection of Guare's plays, film director Louis Malle writes: Guare practices a humor that is synonymous with lucidity, exploding genre and clichés, taking us to the core of human suffering: the awareness of corruption in our own bodies, death circling in. We try to fight it all by creating various mythologies, and it is Guare's peculiar aptitude for exposing these grandiose lies of ours that makes his work so magical.

Awards by John Guare

Check all the awards nominated and won by John Guare.

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Drama A Free Man of Color

2005


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

2002


Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical Sweet Smell of Success
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical Sweet Smell of Success

1993


Gotham Independent Film Tribute Award
(Writer Award)
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play
Honored for : Six Degrees of Separation
(BBC Award for the Play of the Year)

Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay Six Degrees of Separation
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play Six Degrees of Separation
BBC Award for the Play of the Year

1992


Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play Four Baboons Adoring the Sun

1991


Obie Award for Playwriting
Honored for : Six Degrees of Separation

Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play Six Degrees of Separation
Pulitzer Prize for Drama Six Degrees of Separation

1986


Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Play The House of Blue Leaves

1982


Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Drama Atlantic City
BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay Atlantic City

1981


National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay
Honored for : Atlantic City

Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay Atlantic City
César Award for Best Writing Atlantic City
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Atlantic City

1978


Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play Landscape of the Body

1972


Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical
Honored for : Two Gentlemen of Verona
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics
Honored for : Two Gentlemen of Verona
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical
Honored for : Two Gentlemen of Verona

Nominations 1972 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Comedy Taking Off
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical Two Gentlemen of Verona
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical Two Gentlemen of Verona
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics Two Gentlemen of Verona
Tony Award for Best Original Score Two Gentlemen of Verona
BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay Taking Off

1971


Outer Critics Circle Award for Other Awards
Honored for : The House of Blue Leaves
Obie Award for Best New American Play
Honored for : The House of Blue Leaves
(Best American Play)

Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Outer Critics Circle Award for Other Awards The House of Blue Leaves

1968


Obie Award for Distinguished Plays
Honored for : Muzeeka