Sir Tom Stoppard is an English playwright known for his works on stage and screen.
He has received various awards including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and Golden Globe Award for his screenplay for Shakespeare in Love (1998).
He has also received five Tony Awards for Best Play for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1968), Travesties (1976), The Real Thing (1984), The Coast of Utopia (2007), and Leopoldstadt (2023).
He has also received three Laurence Olivier Awards for Arcadia (1994), Heroes (2006), and Leopoldstadt (2020).
He also received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Parade's End (2013).
Major associations
Academy Awards
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Primetime Emmy Award
Tony Awards
Olivier Awards
Industry awards
Evening Standard Award
1967: Most Promising Playwright (UK) 1972: Jumpers for Best Play, Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award for Best New Play (UK) 1974: Travesties – Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy of the Year (UK) 1978: Night and Day – Evening Standard Award for Best Play (UK) 1982: The Real Thing – Evening Standard Award for Best Play (UK) 1993: Arcadia Evening Standard Award for Best Play of the Year 1997: The Invention of Love – Evening Standard Award for Best Play (UK)
London Theatre Critics Award
1967: Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (UK) 1968: Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award for Best New Play (UK) for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1972: Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award for Best New Play (UK) for Jumpers
Prix Italia
1968: Albert's Bridge – (Italy)
Giles Cooper Award
1982: The Dog It Was That Died
1991: In the Native State
Silver Bear
1999: Shakespeare in Love – Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement (Berlin)
Drama Desk Award
2000: The Real Thing – Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play (US)
New York Critics Circle
2001: The Invention of Love – New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play (US)
Honorary awards
Special Honours
1972: Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
1978: Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1978 New Year Honours
1997: Knight Bachelor in the 1997 Birthday Honours for services to literature
1999: Induction into American Theater Hall of Fame
2000: Order of Merit
2000: Honorary Doctor of Letters, Yale University
2000: Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Cambridge
2002: President of The London Library
2009: Honorary Patronage of the University Philosophical Society, Trinity College Dublin 2013: Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Oxford 2017: Honorary Fellow of the British Academy
Special prizes
2007: The Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts (presented on 3 April 2008 at the National Theatre) (UK) 2008: The 2008 Dan David Prize for Creative Rendering of the Past in Theatre (Israeli) 2013: The PEN Pinter Prize for "determination to tell things as they are." (UK) 2013: Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement 2015: PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award 2017: America Award in Literature 2017: David Cohen Prize