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James Cagney

Awards

James Cagney

31 wins & 5 nominations

Academy Awards, USA

  • James Cagney and Doris Day in Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
    1956 Nominee Oscar
    • Best Actor in a Leading Role
    • Love Me or Leave Me
  • James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
    1943 Winner Oscar
    • Best Actor in a Leading Role
    • Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • Humphrey Bogart, Pat O'Brien, Gabriel Dell, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Bernard Punsly, and The Dead End Kids in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
    1939 Nominee Oscar
    • Best Actor in a Leading Role
    • Angels with Dirty Faces

American Film Institute, USA

  • James Cagney
    1974 Winner Life Achievement Award

Hasty Pudding Theatricals, USA

  • James Cagney
    1982 Winner Man of the Year

Laurel Awards

  • James Cagney, Billy Wilder, Horst Buchholz, Liselotte Pulver, Arlene Francis, Howard St. John, and Pamela Tiffin in One, Two, Three (1961)
    1962 Nominee Golden Laurel
    • Top Male Comedy Performance
    • One, Two, Three
    4th place.

National Board of Review, USA

  • James Cagney
    1981 Winner Career Achievement Award
  • James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
    1942 Winner NBR Award
    • Best Acting
    • Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • The Roaring Twenties (1939)
    1939 Winner NBR Award
    • Best Acting
    • The Roaring Twenties
  • Humphrey Bogart, Pat O'Brien, Gabriel Dell, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Bernard Punsly, and The Dead End Kids in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
    1938 Winner NBR Award
    • Best Acting
    • Angels with Dirty Faces

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

  • James Cagney, Billy Wilder, Horst Buchholz, Liselotte Pulver, Arlene Francis, Howard St. John, and Pamela Tiffin in One, Two, Three (1961)
    1961 2nd Place NYFCC Award
    • Best Actor
    • One, Two, Three
  • James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
    1942 Winner NYFCC Award
    • Best Actor
    • Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • Humphrey Bogart, Pat O'Brien, Gabriel Dell, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Bernard Punsly, and The Dead End Kids in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
    1938 Winner NYFCC Award
    • Best Actor
    • Angels with Dirty Faces

Photoplay Awards

  • James Cagney
    1955 Nominee Gold Medal
    • Most Popular Male Star
  • James Cagney, William Cagney, Grace George, William Henry, William K. Howard, Marjorie Lord, Marjorie Main, Hattie McDaniel, and Edward McNamara in Johnny Come Lately (1943)
    1943 Winner Photoplay Award
    • Best Performances of the Month (November)
    • Johnny Come Lately
  • James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
    1942 Winner Photoplay Award
    • Best Performances of the Month (September)
    • Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland in The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
    1941 Winner Photoplay Award
    • Best Performances of the Month (May)
    • The Strawberry Blonde
  • James Cagney and Bette Davis in The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
    1941 Winner Photoplay Award
    • Best Performances of the Month (September)
    • The Bride Came C.O.D.

Actor Awards

  • James Cagney
    1978 Winner Life Achievement Award

Walk of Fame

  • James Cagney
    1960 Winner Star on the Walk of Fame
    • Motion Picture
    On 8 February 1960. At 6504 Hollywood Blvd.

Online Film & Television Association

  • James Cagney
    2006 Winner OFTA Film Hall of Fame
    • Acting

The Kennedy Center Honors

  • James Cagney
    1980 Winner Kennedy Center Honors

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