List of awards and nominations received by Stephen Fry

Sir Stephen Fry awards and nominations
Fry in 2016
Totals[a]
Wins8
Nominations46
Note
  1. ^ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Sir Stephen Fry

Sir Stephen Fry is an English actor, comedian, author, presenter, and playwright. Known for his extensive roles and works on stage and screen, he has received various accolades including a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for 11 BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Grammy Award and Tony Award. He has received several honors including being made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by King Charles III for his services to mental health awareness, the environment and charity in 2025.

As a presenter and host of the popular BBC quiz show QI from 2003 to 2016, he received six nominations for the British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance. He starred in the two part documentary series Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive (2006) for which he was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Factual Series or Strand. He helmed over the docu-series Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press earning a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Specialist Factual.

As an actor, he portrayed author Oscar Wilde in the Brian Gilbert directed biographical romantic drama film Wilde (1998) for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama nomination. He also narrated, Oscar Wilde: The Selfish Giant & The Nightingale And The Rose earning a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children. Fry portrayed a clueless but affable police inspector in the Robert Altman directed British ensemble murder mystery film Gosford Park (2001), for which he won alongside the ensemble the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble.

For his work on the Broadway stage he received two Tony Award nominations, one for Best Book of a Musical for Me and My Girl in 1987 and another for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Malvolio in the revival of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in 2014.

Aside from being given Knighthood from King Charles III in 2025, Fry was also made a Grand Commander of the Order of the Phoenix by the President of Greece in 2021. Fry has been honored with several other accolades including the National Television Special Recognition Award in 2010, the British LGBT Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019, and the Global Icon Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival in 2025. He is an Elected Fellow at both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts and has received Honorary Degrees from several institutions including the University of Dundee, the University of East Anglia, Anglia Ruskin University, the University of Sussex and KU Leuven, Belgium.

Major associations

BAFTA Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
British Academy Television Awards
2004 Best Entertainment Performance QI Nominated [1]
2005 Nominated [2]
2007 Nominated [3]
Best Factual Series Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive Nominated [4]
2008 Best Entertainment Performance QI Nominated [5]
2009 Best Specialist Factual Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press Nominated [6]
Best Entertainment Performance QI Nominated
2010 Nominated [7]
2011 Nominated [8]
2012 Best Performer LittleBigPlanet 2 Nominated [9]
2016 Entertainment Performance QI Nominated [10]

Critics' Choice Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
Critics' Choice Movie Awards
2001 Best Acting Ensemble Gosford Park Won [11]

Golden Globe Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1999 Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama Wilde Nominated [12]

Grammy Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2002 Best Spoken Word Album for Children Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince and Other Tales Nominated [13]
2023 Album of the Year Music of the Spheres Nominated [14]

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2001 Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture Gosford Park Won [15]

Tony Awards

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1987 Best Book of a Musical Me and My Girl Nominated [16]
2014 Best Featured Actor in a Play Twelfth Night Nominated [17]

Miscellaneous awards

Association Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
British Comedy Awards 2007 Best Entertainment Performance QI Nominated
2012 Best Entertainment Performance QI Nominated
British Independent Film Awards 2003 Douglas Hilcox Award Bright Young Things Nominated
Emden International Film Festival 2004 Emden Film Award Bright Young Things Nominated
Florida Film Critics Circle 2001 Best Acting Ensemble Gosford Park Won
Phoenix Film Critics Society 2001 Best Acting Ensemble Gosford Park Nominated
Satellite Awards 1998 Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama Wilde Nominated
2001 Best Acting Ensemble Gosford Park Won
Seattle International Film Festival 1998 Best Actor Wilde Won
Sidewise Award for Alternate History 1998 Best Long Form Making History Won

Honorary awards

Organizations Year Award Result Ref.
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 2006 Ranked sixth for Top Living Icon Award Honored [18]
Radio Times 2006 Voted "Most Intelligent Man on Television" Honored
Independent on Sunday 2007 Named the 2nd most influential gay person in Britain Honored
Broadcast Magazine 2007 Listed #4 in its "Hot 100" list of influential on-screen performers Honored [19]
British Comedy Awards 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award Honored [20]
The Noël Coward Society 2009 Vice-President Honored [21]
Royal College of Psychiatrists 2009 Honorary Fellow Honored [22]
Cardiff University 2010 Honorary Fellow Honored [23]
Queens' College, Cambridge 2010 Honorary Fellow Honored
National Television Awards 2010 Special Recognition Award Honored [24]
Harvard University[a] 2011 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism Honored [25]
Union of UEA Students 2012 Honorary Life Membership of the Union Honored [26]
British LGBT Awards 2016 Global Icon[b] Nominated [27]
2019 Lifetime Achievement Honored [28]
Royal Society of Literature 2019 Elected Fellow Honored [29]
President of Greece 2021 Grand Commander of the Order of the Phoenix Honored [30]
Society of Authors 2023 Fellow Honored [31]
Royal Canadian Geographical Society 2024 Honorary Fellow Honored [32]
King Charles III 2025 Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) Honored [33]
Newport Beach Film Festival 2025 Global Icon Award Honored [34]
Royal Society of Arts N/A Elected Fellow Honored [35]

Honorary degrees

Institution Year Degree Result Ref.
University of Dundee 1995 LL.D. (Doctor of Laws) Honored [36]
University of East Anglia 1999 D.Litt. (Doctor of Letters) Honored [37]
Anglia Ruskin University 2005 D.Univ. (Doctor of the University) Honored [38]
University of Sussex 2021 D.Univ. (Doctor of the University) Honored [39]
KU Leuven, Belgium 2025 Honorary Doctorate (Arts) Honored [40]

References

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  8. ^ "Entertainment Performance in 2011". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  9. ^ "Best Performer in 2012". BAFTA. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
  10. ^ "Entertainment Performance in 2016". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  11. ^ "Critics make it a 'Beautiful' night for Crowe". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  12. ^ "56th Golden Globe Awards". Golden Globe Awards. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  13. ^ "44th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  14. ^ "44th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  15. ^ "8th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards". Screen Actors Guild Awards. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
  16. ^ "1987 Tony Awards". American Theater Wing. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  17. ^ "1987 Tony Awards". American Theater Wing. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  18. ^ "Living Icons". BBC. 11 December 2006. Retrieved 4 February 2009.
  19. ^ "Hot 100: Talent". Broadcast. 18 December 2007. Archived from the original (free registration required) on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2007.
  20. ^ Hemley, Matthew (6 December 2007). "Gavin and Stacey sweeps British Comedy Awards". The Stage. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 16 December 2007.
  21. ^ "Welcome to the Noël Coward Society". Noelcoward.net. Archived from the original on 4 May 2009. Retrieved 4 February 2009.
  22. ^ The Royal College of Psychiatrists' Winter Business Meeting 2009 - website of Cambridge University Press
  23. ^ "Honouring excellence". Cardiff University. 10 July 2010. Archived from the original on 29 November 2010. Retrieved 15 July 2010.
  24. ^ "Delight for Stephen Fry at TV awards". The Independent. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  25. ^ "Harvard Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University Presents Stephen Fry". Harvardhumanist.org. Archived from the original on 26 February 2011. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  26. ^ "Minutes of Union Council (16/10/12)" (PDF). Union of UEA Students. October 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 November 2013.
  27. ^ "LGBT+Global Awards". British LGBT Awards. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  28. ^ "LGBT awards: Stephen Fry given lifetime honour". BBC. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  29. ^ "Fry, Stephen". Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  30. ^ "Stephen Fry awarded with Medal of Grand Commander of the Order of the Phoenix". Greek City Times. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  31. ^ SoA profiles: Stephen Fry, Fellow - website of the Society of Authors
  32. ^ Stephen Fry becomes an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society - website of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society
  33. ^ "Stephen Fry Knighted, Carey Mulligan and Sarah Lancashire Made Commanders of British Empire in U.K. New Year Honors List". Variety. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  34. ^ "Felicity Jones, Emma Corrin, Stephen Fry and Sharon Horgan Among Newport Beach Film Festival U.K. and Ireland Honorees". Variety. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  35. ^ Fry and Mosse join SoA fellowship - website of the British magazine The Bookseller
  36. ^ "Honorary Degrees". University of Dundee. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  37. ^ "Honorary Graduates". University of East Anglia. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  38. ^ "Stephen Fry". Anglia Ruskin University. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  39. ^ "Stephen Fry made honorary doctor at University of Sussex". BBC. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  40. ^ "Honorary Doctorate to Stephen Fry". KU Leuven. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  1. ^ Specifically, the Humanist Chaplaincy at the Harvard Secular Society and the American Humanist Association
  2. ^ Nominated alongside the likes of Cher, Lady Gaga, and Sir Ian McKellen, the later of which won the award
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