Edward Albee - Awards and Nominations

Awards and Nominations

Awards

• 1960: Drama Desk Award Vernon Rice Award: The Zoo Story
• 1963: Tony Award for Best Play: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• 1967: Pulitzer Prize for Drama: A Delicate Balance
• 1975: Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Seascape
• 1994: Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Three Tall Women
• 1996: National Medal of Arts
• 2002: Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play: The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
• 2002: Tony Award for Best Play: The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
• 2005: Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement
• 2005 Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award
• 2008: Drama Desk Award Special Award
• 2011: Edward MacDowell Medal for Lifetime Achievement
• 2011: Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement, Lambda Literary Foundation

Nominations

• 1964: Tony Award for Best Play: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
• 1965: Tony Award for Best Author of a Play: Tiny Alice
• 1965: Tony Award for Best Play: Tiny Alice
• 1967: Tony Award for Best Play: A Delicate Balance
• 1975: Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play: Seascape
• 1975: Tony Award for Best Play: Seascape
• 1976: Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director of a Play: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• 1994: Drama Desk Award Outstanding Play: Three Tall Women
• 2001: Pulitzer Prize for Drama: The Play About the Baby
• 2003: Pulitzer Prize for Drama: The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
• 2005: Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The Pulitzer Prize committee for the Best Play in 1963 recommended Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, but the Pulitzer board, which has sole discretion in awarding the prize, rejected the recommendation, due to the play's perceived vulgarity, and no award was given that year.