Cat Ballou - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

Lee Marvin awards won

• 1965 Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
• 1965 British Academy Award Winner for Best Actor
• 1965 Golden Globe Award Winner for Best Actor
• 1965 Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 15th Berlin International Film Festival

In his acceptance speech at the Oscars, Lee Marvin opened by saying, "I think I should be sharing this award with a horse somewhere out there in the San Fernando Valley," a reference to the horse Kid Shelleen rode, who appeared to be as drunk as Shelleen was.

Academy Award nominations

• Best Film Editing
• Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment
• Best Music, Song - Jerry Livingston and Mack David for "The Ballad of Cat Ballou"
• Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

American Film Institute recognition

• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies - Nominated
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs - #50
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains:
  • Tim Strawn - Nominated Villain
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs:
  • The Ballad of Cat Ballou - Nominated
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) - Nominated
• AFI's 10 Top 10 - #10 Western

Honors

In June 2008, AFI revealed its "Ten top Ten"—the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. Cat Ballou was acknowledged as the tenth best film in the Western genre.