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List of awards and nominations received by John Travolta

John Travolta awards and nominations
Travolta at the 2013 Deauville American Film Festival
Travolta at the 2013 Deauville American Film Festival
Wins 43
Nominations 90

American actor John Travolta has received numerous accolades throughout his career.

Travolta had a career breakthrough playing young Italian-American Tony Manero living in Brooklyn in Saturday Night Fever (1977), receiving his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The following year, he had another successful film thanks to the role of Danny Zuko in the 1978 musical Grease, earning nominations for a Golden Globe Award and the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for the film's accompanying soundtrack.

After a career downturn in the early 1990s decade, Travolta made a comeback when he played against type as Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's hit Pulp Fiction (1994), for which he received nominations for his second Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He won his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the 1995 gangster comedy film Get Shorty and returned to the musical genre with the 2007 remake of Hairspray, winning the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble.

Travolta portrayed lawyer Robert Shapiro in the television series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016), receiving nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series, while also winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series as an executive producer of the show.

Major associations

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Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
1978 Saturday Night Fever Best Actor Nominated [1]
1995 Pulp Fiction Nominated [2]
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British Academy Film Awards
1995 Pulp Fiction Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated [3]
Britannia Awards
1998 Excellence in Film Honored [4]
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
1978 Saturday Night Fever Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Nominated [5]
1979 Grease Nominated
World Film Favorites – Male Won
1995 Pulp Fiction Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Nominated
1996 Get Shorty Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Won
1999 Primary Colors Nominated
2008 Hairspray Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Nominated
2017 The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film[b] Won
Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
1979 Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture Album of the Year[c] Nominated [6]
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
2016 The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story Outstanding Limited Series[b] Won [7]
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Nominated
2021 Die Hart Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Nominated
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
1995 Pulp Fiction Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nominated [8]
1996 Get Shorty Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture[d] Nominated [9]
2008 Hairspray Nominated [10]

Other associations

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Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
2008 Hairspray Best Grownup Love Story (shared with Christopher Walken) Won [11]
2010 The Taking of Pelham 123 Best Supporting Actor Nominated [12]
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1995 Pulp Fiction Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture – Leading Role Nominated [13]
1996 Get Shorty Won [14]
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
2017 The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story Outstanding Television Movie or Limited Series[b] Won [15]
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
1997 Phenomenon Favorite Actor – Drama Won [16]
1998 Face/Off Favorite Actor – Action/Adventure Nominated [17]
1999 A Civil Action Favorite Actor – Drama Nominated [18]
World Artist Award Honored [19]
2000 The General's Daughter Favorite Actor – Suspense Nominated [20]
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
Critics' Choice Movie Awards
2008 Hairspray Best Acting Ensemble[d] Won [21]
Critics' Choice Television Awards
2016 The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story Best Supporting Actor in a Movie Made for Television or Limited Series Nominated [22]
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
1995 Pulp Fiction Best Foreign Actor Won [23]
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1978 Male Star of the Year Won [24]
1998 Won [25]
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2011 Best International Actor Won [26]
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1984 Staying Alive and Two of a Kind Worst Actor Nominated [27]
1986 Perfect Nominated [28]
1990 The Experts, Perfect, Staying Alive and Two of a Kind Worst Actor of the Decade Nominated [29]
1992 Shout Worst Supporting Actor Nominated [30]
2001 Battlefield Earth and Lucky Numbers Worst Actor Won [31]
Battlefield Earth Worst Screen Couple[e] Won
2002 Domestic Disturbance and Swordfish Worst Actor Nominated [32]
2010 Old Dogs Nominated [33]
Battlefield Earth, Domestic Disturbance, Lucky Numbers, Old Dogs and Swordfish Worst Actor of the Decade Nominated
2019 Gotti Worst Actor Nominated [34]
Worst Screen Combo (shared with Kelly Preston) Nominated
2020 The Fanatic and Trading Paint Worst Actor Won [35]
Worst Screen Combo[f] Nominated
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1981 Man of the Year Won [36]
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2004 Lifetime Achievement Award Honored [37]
2007 Hairspray Supporting Actor of the Year Won [38]
Ensemble of the Year[d] Won
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
2014 Outstanding Achievement in International Cinema Honored [39]
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
1995 Pulp Fiction Best Male Performance Nominated [40]
Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Samuel L. Jackson) Nominated
Best Dance Sequence (shared with Uma Thurman) Won
1996 Broken Arrow Best Villain Nominated [41]
Best Fight (shared with Christian Slater) Nominated
1997 Phenomenon Best Male Performance Nominated [42]
Best Kiss (shared with Kyra Sedgwick) Nominated
1998 Face/Off Best Male Performance Nominated [43]
Best Villain (shared with Nicolas Cage) Nominated
Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Nicolas Cage) Won
Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
2017 The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television[b] Won [44]
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1999 The Thin Red Line Best Cast – Motion Picture[d] Won [45]
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1999 Face/Off Best Actor Nominated [46]
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1996 Male Star of the Year Won [47]
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1978 Moment by Moment Worst Actor Nominated [48]
Worst On-Screen Couple (shared with Lily Tomlin) Won
1997 Mad City Worst Actor Nominated [49]
2000 Battlefield Earth Won [50]
Worst On-Screen Couple[g] Won
Worst On-Screen Hairstyle (shared with Forest Whitaker) Won
2003 Basic Most Annoying Fake Accent (Male) Nominated [51]

Critics associations

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Film festivals

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Year Nominated work Festival Honor Result Ref.
1994 Pulp Fiction Stockholm International Film Festival Best Actor Won [59]
1998 Chicago International Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award Honored [60]
1999 Palm Springs International Film Festival Desert Palm Achievement Award Honored [61]
2008 Hairspray Ensemble Cast Award[d] Won [62]
Santa Barbara International Film Festival Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film Honored [63]
2012 San Sebastián International Film Festival Donostia Award Honored [64]
Zurich Film Festival Golden Eye for Lifetime Achievement Honored [65]
2013 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema Honored [66]

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