Richard Dreyfuss
Year Association Category Nominated work Result
1974 Golden Globe Awards Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy American Graffiti Nominated
1974 New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Actor The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Nominated
1976 BAFTA Awards Best Actor in a Leading Role Jaws Nominated
1977 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Actor The Goodbye Girl Won
1978 Academy Awards Best Actor The Goodbye Girl Won
1978 Golden Globe Awards Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy The Goodbye Girl Won
1978 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards Best Actor The Goodbye Girl Won
1978 Saturn Awards Best Actor Close Encounters of the Third Kind Nominated
1979 BAFTA Awards Best Actor in a Leading Role The Goodbye Girl Won
1981 Razzie Awards Worst Actor The Competition Nominated
1988 Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture Nuts Nominated
1996 Academy Awards Best Actor Mr. Holland 's Opus Nominated
1996 Golden Globe Awards Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama Mr. Holland 's Opus Nominated
2002 Satellite Awards Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film The Day Reagan Was Shot Won
2002 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie The Day Reagan Was Shot Nominated
2002 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series The Education of Max Bickford Nominated
2004 Film Critics Circle of Australia Best Actor The Old Man Who Read Love Stories Nominated
2010 Ride of Fame Ride of Fame Life 's work Won
2011 Saturn Awards Best Guest Starring Role on Television Weeds Won
2015 FEST Belgrade Winner Award for lifetime contribution to the art of film Won
Awards and nominations
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (/ˈdraɪfəs/; né Dreyfus; born October 29, 1947) is an American actor best known for starring in popular films between the 1970s and 1990s, including American Graffiti, Jaws, Stand by Me, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Goodbye Girl, Tin Men,
Stakeout, Always, What About Bob? and Mr. Holland's Opus. Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1978 for The Goodbye Girl, and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Holland's Opus. He has also won a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and was nominated in 2002 for Screen Actors Guild Awards in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries categories.