‘The freedom of expression that we have in our American society’ — List of Warren Beatty Oscar nominations, wins
Posted: June 2026
List of Oscar nominations for Warren Beatty. Warren Beatty has been nominated for 14 Academy Awards, over 5 categories, and won 1. Warren Beatty also received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2000. Year indicates year/period for which films were eligible for awards consideration, not year of ceremony. Sources: Oscars.org, Internet Movie Database, Wikipedia
Jack Nicholson, presenting the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to Warren Beatty at the 2000 Oscars: “He’s been nominated for an Oscar 14 times as a producer, an actor, a writer and a director. And he’s the only person in the history of the Academy to be nominated in the same year in these 4 categories. And, he’s done it twice.”
(Ben Mankiewicz, 2002: “In the history of the Academy Awards, two people have been nominated for Best Picture, as the producer, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor. One of them, of course, Orson Welles.”) (In 1942, Best Picture nominations were for the movie only, not producers.)
1998: Bulworth (Best Original Screenplay) (shared with Jeremy Pikser) — lost to Shakespeare in Love (Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard). Other nominees: Life Is Beautiful (Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni), Saving Private Ryan (Robert Rodat), The Truman Show (Andrew Niccol)
1991: Bugsy (Best Picture) (shared with Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson) — lost to The Silence of the Lambs (Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman). Other nominees: Beauty and the Beast (Don Hahn), JFK (A. Kitman Ho, Oliver Stone), The Prince of Tides (Barbra Streisand, Andrew S. Karsch)
1991: Bugsy (Best Actor) — lost to Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs). Other nominees: Nick Nolte (The Prince of Tides), Robin Williams (The Fisher King), Robert De Niro (Cape Fear)
1981: Reds (Best Picture) — lost to Chariots of Fire (David Puttnam). Other nominees: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Frank Marshall), Atlantic City (Denis Héroux), On Golden Pond (Bruce Gilbert)
1981: Reds (Best Actor) — lost to Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond). Other nominees: Burt Lancaster (Atlantic City), Dudley Moore (Arthur), Paul Newman (Absence of Malice)
WON: 1981: Reds (Best Director) — Other nominees: Steven Spielberg (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Hugh Hudson (Chariots of Fire), Louis Malle (Atlantic City), Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond)
1981: Reds (Best Original Screenplay) (shared with Trevor Griffiths) — lost to Chariots of Fire (Colin Welland). Other nominees: Absence of Malice (Kurt Luedtke), Atlantic City (John Guare), Arthur (Steve Gordon)
1978: Heaven Can Wait (Best Picture) — lost to The Deer Hunter (Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall). Other nominees: An Unmarried Woman (Paul Mazursky, Anthony Ray), Midnight Express (Alan Marshall, David Puttnam), Coming Home (Jerome Hellman)
1978: Heaven Can Wait (Best Actor) — lost to Jon Voight (Coming Home). Other nominees: Laurence Olivier (The Boys from Brazil), Robert De Niro (The Deer Hunter), Gary Busey (The Buddy Holly Story)
1978: Heaven Can Wait (Best Director) (shared with Buck Henry) — lost to Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter). Other nominees: Hal Ashby (Coming Home), Alan Parker (Midnight Express), Woody Allen (Interiors)
1978: Heaven Can Wait (Best Adapted Screenplay) (shared with Elaine May) — lost to Midnight Express (Oliver Stone). Other nominees: Same Time, Next Year (Bernard Slade), Bloodbrothers (Walter Newman), California Suite (Neil Simon)
1975: Shampoo (Best Original Screenplay) (shared with Robert Towne) — lost to Dog Day Afternoon (Frank Pierson). Other nominees: Amarcord (Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra), Lies My Father Told Me (Ted Allan), And Now My Love (Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven)
1967: Bonnie and Clyde (Best Picture) — lost to In the Heat of the Night (Walter Mirisch). Other nominees: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Stanley Kramer), Doctor Dolittle (Arthur P. Jacobs), The Graduate (Lawrence Turman)
1967: Bonnie and Clyde (Best Actor) — lost to Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night). Other nominees: Spencer Tracy (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Posthumous)), Paul Newman (Cool Hand Luke), Dustin Hoffman (The Graduate)
