The Heiress - Awards and Nominations

Awards and Nominations

Awards

• Academy Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland)
• Academy Award for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Black and White (John Meehan, Harry Horner, and Emile Kuri)
• Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black and White (Edith Head, and Gile Steele)
• Academy Award for Original Music Score (Aaron Copland)
• Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture (Olivia de Havilland)
• National Board of Review Award for Best Actor (Ralph Richardson)
• New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland)

Nominations

• Academy Award for Best Picture
• Academy Award for Best Director
• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Ralph Richardson)
• Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black and White
• AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies
• AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions
• AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores
• AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)
• Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture (Miriam Hopkins)
• Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture
• Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama

In 1996, The Heiress was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".