List of awards and nominations received by William Wyler

This article is a List of awards and nominations received by William Wyler

Known for his work in numerous genres over five decades he has received numerous award accolades including three Academy Awards. He holds a record twelve nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director. For his work Wyler was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award, and the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. Wyler went on to win the Academy Award for Best Director three times, those being for Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Ben-Hur (1959), all of which also won for Best Picture. He was Oscar-nominated for Dodsworth (1936), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), The Heiress (1949), Detective Story (1952), Roman Holiday (1953), Friendly Persuasion (1956), and The Collector (1965).

Major associations

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1936	Best Director	Dodsworth	Nominated
1939		Wuthering Heights	Nominated
1940		The Letter	Nominated
1941		The Little Foxes	Nominated
1942		Mrs. Miniver	Won
1946		The Best Years of Our Lives	Won
1949	Best Picture	The Heiress	Nominated
1949	Best Director	The Heiress	Nominated
1951	Best Director	Detective Story	Nominated
1953	Best Picture	Roman Holiday	Nominated
1953	Best Director	Roman Holiday	Nominated
1956	Best Picture	Friendly Persuasion	Nominated
1956	Best Director	Friendly Persuasion	Nominated
1959		Ben-Hur	Won
1965		The Collector	Nominated
1965	Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award		Won

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
British Academy Film Awards
1947	Best Film from Any Source	The Best Years of Our Lives	Won
1951		Detective Story	Nominated
1952		Carrie	Nominated
1953		Roman Holiday	Nominated
1959		Ben-Hur	Won
1959		The Big Country	Nominated

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1959	Best Director	Ben-Hur	Won
1961		The Children's Hour	Nominated
1965		The Collector	Nominated
1968		Funny Girl	Nominated

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1952	Grand Prix	Detective Story	Nominated
1957	Palme d'Or	Friendly Persuasion	Won
1965	Palme d'Or	The Collector	Nominated

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1952	Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Detective Story	Nominated
1954		Roman Holiday	Nominated
1957		Friendly Persuasion	Nominated
1959		The Big Country	Nominated
1960		Ben-Hur	Won
1962		The Children's Hour	Nominated
1966	Lifetime Achievement Award		Received
1969	Outstanding Directorial Achievement	Funny Girl	Nominated

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1946	Best Director	The Best Years of Our Lives	Won
1955	Best Director	The Desperate Hours	Won

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1936	Best Director	Dodsworth	Nominated
1940		The Letter	Nominated
1946		The Best Years of Our Lives	Won
1955		The Desperate Hours	Nominated
1959		Ben-Hur	Nominated

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1938	Best Foreign Film	Jezebel	Nominated
1938	Special Recommendation	Jezebel	Won
1952	Golden Lion	Carrie	Nominated
1953	Golden Lion	Roman Holiday	Nominated

v t e Films directed by William Wyler
Films	The Stolen Ranch (1926) Lazy Lightning (1926) Straight Shootin' (1927) The Border Cavalier (1927) Desert Dust (1927) Hard Fists (1927) Anybody Here Seen Kelly? (1928) Thunder Riders (1928) The Shakedown (1929) The Love Trap (1929) Hell's Heroes (1930) The Storm (1930) A House Divided (1931) Tom Brown of Culver (1932) Her First Mate (1933) Counsellor at Law (1933) Glamour (1934) The Good Fairy (1935) The Gay Deception (1935) These Three (1936) Dodsworth (1936) Come and Get It (1936) Dead End (1937) Jezebel (1938) Wuthering Heights (1939) The Westerner (1940) The Letter (1940) The Little Foxes (1941) Mrs. Miniver (1942) Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Thunderbolt (1947) The Heiress (1949) Detective Story (1951) Carrie (1952) Roman Holiday (1953) The Desperate Hours (1955) Friendly Persuasion (1956) The Big Country (1958) Ben-Hur (1959) The Children's Hour (1961) The Collector (1965) How to Steal a Million (1966) Funny Girl (1968) The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
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Films directed by William Wyler

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