Claudette Colbert
Year Award Category Film Result
1935 Academy Award Best Actress It Happened One Night Won
1936 Academy Award Best Actress Private Worlds Nominated
1945 Academy Award Best Actress Since You Went Away Nominated
1959 Tony Award Best Actress The Marriage-Go-Round Nominated
1960 Hollywood Walk of Fame Star at 6812 Hollywood Blvd - Inducted
1980 Sarah Siddons Award The Kingfisher Won
1984 Film Society of Lincoln Center Lifetime Achievement Award - Won
1985 Drama Desk Drama Desk Special Award Are n't We All Won
1987 Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Supporting Actress The Two Mrs. Grenvilles Nominated
1988 Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actress in a Series The Two Mrs. Grenvilles Won
1989 Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award - Won
1990 San Sebastián International Film Festival Donostia Award - Won
1999 American Film Institute Greatest Female Stars - 12th
Awards and honors
Claudette Colbert ( ; born Émilie Claudette Chauchoin; September 13, 1903 - July 30, 1996) was an American stage and film actress. Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the late 1920s and progressed to motion pictures with the advent of Talking pictures. Initially associated with Paramount Pictures, she gradually shifted to working as a freelance actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in It Happened One Night (1934), and received two other Academy Award nominations. Other notable films include Cleopatra (1934) and The Palm Beach Story (1942). With her round face, big eyes, charming, aristocratic manner, and flair for light comedy, as well as emotional drama, Colbert was known for a versatility that led to her becoming one of the industry's best-paid stars of the 1930s and 1940s and, in 1938 and 1942, the highest-paid star. During her career, Colbert starred in more than 60 movies. Among her frequent co-stars were Fred MacMurray in seven films (1935−49), and Fredric March in four films (1930−33). By the early 1950s, Colbert had basically retired from the screen in favor of television and stage work, and she earned a Tony Award nomination for The Marriage-Go-Round in 1959. Her career tapered off during the early 1960s, but in the late 1970s she experienced a career resurgence in theater, earning a Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago theater work in 1980. For her television work in The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987), she won a Golden Globe Award and received an Emmy Award nomination. In 1999, the American Film Institute posthumously voted Colbert the 12th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema.