Awards & Winners

Deborah Kerr

Date of Birth 30-September-1921
Place of Birth Glasgow
(Scotland, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories, United Kingdom, Strathclyde)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, Deborah Kerr-Viertel, Deborah Kerr-Trimmer, The English Rose, Deborah Jane Trimmer, Deborah Jane Kerr, CBE, Deborah Jane Kerr
Profession Actor
Deborah Kerr CBE was a Scottish-born film, theatre and television actress. During her career, she won a Golden Globe for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the motion picture The King and I and the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance as "Laura Reynolds" in the play Tea and Sympathy. She was also a three-time winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. Kerr was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, but never won. In 1994, however, having already received honorary awards from the Cannes Film Festival and BAFTA, she received an Academy Honorary Award with a citation recognising her as "an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance". As well as The King and I, her films include An Affair to Remember, From Here to Eternity, Quo Vadis, The Innocents, Black Narcissus, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and Separate Tables.

Awards by Deborah Kerr

Check all the awards nominated and won by Deborah Kerr.

1993


Academy Honorary Award
(in appreciation for a full career's worth of elegant and beautifully crafted performances)

1991


BAFTA Special Award (Film)

Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Special Award (Film)

1987


Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress The Assam Garden
Role: Helen

1985


Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie A Woman of Substance
For playing \" Emma Harte\"

1965


Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best British Actress The Chalk Garden

1962


Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best British Actress The Sundowners

1960


Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Actress The Sundowners
Role: Ida Carmody

1959


David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress
Honored for : Separate Tables
Golden Globe Henrietta Award for World Film Favorites

Nominations 1959 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama Separate Tables
role: Sibyl Railton-Bell
Golden Globe Henrietta Award for World Film Favorites

1958


Nominations 1958 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
role: Sister Angela
Academy Award for Best Actress Separate Tables
Role: Sibyl Railton-Bell
BAFTA Award for Best British Actress Tea and Sympathy

1957


Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Honored for : The King and I

Nominations 1957 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Actress Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Role: Sister Angela
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy The King and I

1956


Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Actress The King and I
Role: Anna
BAFTA Award for Best British Actress The End of the Affair

1953


Nominations 1953 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Actress From Here to Eternity
Role: Karen Holmes

1950


Nominations 1950 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama Edward, My Son

1949


Nominations 1949 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Actress Edward, My Son
Role: Evelyn Boult