Alan Bennett

Prizes and awards 1961 Evening Standard Award for Best Play Beyond The Fringe 1962 New York Drama Critics Award (Special Citation) Beyond The Fringe 1963 Tony Special Award Beyond The Fringe 1967 BAFTA Comdey Award On The Margin TV series 1968 Evening Standard Award Forty Years On 1971 Evening Standard Award Getting On 1977 Critics' Circle Award The Old Country 1984 Broadcasting Press Guild Award An Englishman Abroad 1984 Royal Television Society Award An Englishman Abroad 1985 BAFTA (Best Film Award) A Private Function 1985 BAFTA (Best Original Screenplay) (nomination) A Private Function 1986 LCCFA Best Screenwriter of the Year Award A Private Function 1986 Royal Television Society Award The Insurance Man 1988 BAFTA (Best Adapted Screenplay) (nomination) Prick Up Your Ears 1988 LCCCFA Best Screenwriter of the Year Award Prick Up Your Ears 1989 Hawthornden Prize Talking Heads 1990 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Single Spies 1991 BAFTA (Best Single Drama) A Question of Attribution 1995 Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Adapted Screenplay (nomination) The Madness of King George 1995 Writers' Guild Award (Best Adapted Screenplay) The Madness of King George 1996 BAFTA (Best Adapted Screenplay) (nomination) The Maness of King George 1996 LCCFA Best Screenwriter of the Year The Madness of King George 1999 BAFTA (Best Single Drama) (nomination) Talking Heads 2 2000 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play (shortlist) The Lady In The Van 2003 British Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award 2004 Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play The History Boys 2004 Evening Standard Award for Best Play of the Year The History Boys 2004 Whatsonstage.com Award for Best New Comedy The History Boys 2005 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Play The History Boys 2005 Society of London Theatres Special Award for Contribution to Theatre The History Boys 2005 South Bank Show Award for Theatre The History Boys 2006 British Book Awards Author of the Year Untold Stories 2006 J. R. Ackerley Prize Untold Stories 2006 New York Drama Critics' Award for Best Play The History Boys 2006 New York Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play The History Boys 2006 Samuel Johnson Prize (shortlist) Untold Stories 2006 Tony Award for Best Play (US) The History Boys 2008 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize (shortlist) The Uncommon Reader 2008 Booksellers Association Independent Booksellers' Book Prize (shortlist)