This article is a list of awards and nominations received by Stephen Sondheim.
Stephen Sondheim (19302021) was an American composer and lyricist known for his work in musical theatre and film. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, eight Grammy Awards, five Laurence Olivier Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and eight Tony Awards. Sondheim has received several honorary awards including an induction into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1983, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1993, the National Medal of Arts in 1996, a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 2008, and the Society of London Theatre Special Award in 2011, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2015). Theaters were named in his honor on Broadway in 2010 and London's West End in 2019.
Known primarily for his work on the Broadway stage, he started his career as a lyricist for the musicals West Side Story (1957), Gypsy (1959), and Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), the later of which earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Original Score. He wrote A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), his first musical as both a composer and lyricist, followed by Anyone Can Whistle (1964) and Evening Primrose (1965). He earned critical acclaim for his musical Company (1970) earning Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Lyricist of a Musical. He won further Tony Awards for Best Original Score for Follies (1972), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Into the Woods (1986), and Passion (1994). For his musical Sunday in the Park with George (1984) he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
For his work on the West End he won two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best New Musical for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 1980 and Follies in 1987. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical twice for Sunday in the Park with George in 1991 and Merrily We Roll Along in 2001. He was Olivier-nominated for Side by Side by Sondheim in 1976, Into the Woods in 1991, Assassins in 1993, and Passion in 1997. He was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Contribution for Follies in 2018.
On film, he wrote three songs for the Warren Beatty directed crime action film Dick Tracy (1990), "More", What Can You Lose?", and "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)", the later of which earned him the Academy Award for Best Original Song. He was also nominated for two Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Song and two Grammy Awards for Best Song Written for Visual Media. He won six Grammy Awards for Best Musical Theater Album for Company (1971), A Little Night Music (1974), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1980), Sunday in the Park with George (1985), Into the Woods (1989) and Passion (1995). He won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for "Send in the Clowns" (1976).
Major awards Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1990 Best Original Song "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)"
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1990 Best Original Song "Sooner or Later" "What Can You Lose?"
Grammy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1960 Song of the Year "Small World" 1963 Best Original Cast Show Album A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 1966 Best Score from an Original Cast Do I Hear a Waltz? 1971 Company 1972 Follies 1974 Best Score from the Original Cast Show Album A Little Night Music 1976 Best Cast Show Album A Little Night Music Song of the Year "Send In the Clowns" 1977 Best Cast Show Album Pacific Overtures 1980 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 1983 Merrily We Roll Along 1985 Sunday in the Park with George 1989 Best Musical Cast Show Album Into the Woods 1991 Best Song Written for a Visual Media "More" "Sooner or Later" 1992 Best Musical Theater Album Assassins 1995 Passion 2008 Trustees Award Himself
Laurence Olivier Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1976 Musical of the Year Side by Side by Sondheim 1980 Sweeney Todd 1987 Follies 1991 Best New Musical Sunday in the Park with George Into the Woods 1993 Assassins 1997 Passion 2001 Merrily We Roll Along 2011 Society of London Theatre Special Award Himself 2018 Best Original Score or New Orchestrations Follies
Pulitzer Prize Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Sunday in the Park with George
Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1965 Best Original Score (with Richard Rodgers) Do I Hear a Waltz? 1971Best Original Musical ScoreCompany Best Lyricist of a Musical 1972Best Original Score Follies 1973 A Little Night Music 1976 Pacific Overtures 1979 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 1982 Merrily We Roll Along 1984 Sunday in the Park with George 1988 Into the Woods 1994 Passion 2008 Special Tony Award Himself
Miscellaneous awards Organizations Year Category Nominated work Result Drama Desk Awards 1970 Outstanding Musical Company Outstanding Music Outstanding Lyrics 1971 Outstanding Music Follies Outstanding Lyrics 1973 Outstanding Music A Little Night Music Outstanding Lyrics 1976 Outstanding Music Pacific Overtures Outstanding Lyrics 1979 Outstanding Music Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Outstanding Lyrics 1982 Outstanding Music Merrily We Roll Along Outstanding Lyrics 1984 Outstanding Music Sunday in the Park with George Outstanding Lyrics 1988 Outstanding Music Into the Woods Outstanding Lyrics 1991 Outstanding Music Assassins Outstanding Lyrics 1994 Outstanding Music Passion Outstanding Lyrics 2000 Outstanding Music Saturday Night Outstanding Lyrics 2009 Outstanding Music Road Show Outstanding Lyrics Edgar Awards 1974 Best Motion Picture The Last of Sheila IFMCA Awards 2021 Kyle Renick Special Award West Side Story Obie Awards 2009 Music and Lyrics Road Show OFTA Awards 2007 Best Adapted Song "Johanna" 2019 "Being Alive" 2021 "America" St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association 2007 Best Score Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Honorary awards Organization Year Honor Result Ref. Songwriters Hall of Fame 1975 Inductee American Theater Hall of Fame 1982 Inductee John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 1993 Kennedy Center Honors President Bill Clinton 1996 National Medal of Arts The Imperial Family of JapanThe Japan Art Association 2000 Praemium Imperiale Tony Awards 2008 Special Tony Award The Recording Academy 2008 Trustees Award Laurence Olivier Awards 2011 Society of London Theatre Special Award MacDowell Artists' Residency 2013 Edward MacDowell Medal President Barack Obama 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom
See also List of EGOT winners
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