Awards & Winners

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Date of Birth 07-May-1927
Place of Birth Cologne
(Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne)
Nationality Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America
Also know as R. Prawer Jhabvala, Ruth and Cyrus Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, आर० प्रोवर झाबवाला, रूथ एंड सायरस झाबवाला, रूथ प्रोवर
Profession Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant. Jhabvala wrote a dozen novels, 23 screenplays and eight collections of short stories and was made a CBE in 1998 and granted a joint fellowship by BAFTA in 2002 with Ivory and Merchant. She is the only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Oscar.

Awards by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

2002


BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award
Honored for : Merchant Ivory Productions

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award Merchant Ivory Productions

1994


Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay The Remains of the Day
BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay, Adapted The Remains of the Day
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture The Remains of the Day

1993


Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Howards End
BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay, Adapted Howards End
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay The Remains of the Day
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture Howards End

1992


Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay
Honored for : Howards End

Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay Howards End

1987


Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Honored for : A Room with a View

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay A Room with a View
BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay, Adapted A Room with a View

1986


Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay
Honored for : A Room with a View

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay A Room with a View

1984


BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay, Adapted
Honored for : Heat and Dust

Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay, Adapted Heat and Dust

1975


Man Booker Prize
Honored for : Heat and Dust

Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Man Booker Prize Heat and Dust