Awards and Honors
Emmy Award nomination
(best writing in a variety or situation comedy)
1956, 1957 The Sid Caesar Show
Emmy Award nomination 1959 The Phil Silvers Show
Antoinette Perry Award nomination
(best author of a musical; best musical play)
1963

Little Me

Antoinette Perry Award nomination
(best play)
1964 Barefoot in the Park
Antoinette Perry Award
(best dramatic author)
1965 The Odd Couple
Antoinette Perry Award nomination
(best musical)
1966 Sweet Charity
Writers Guild Award nomination
(best screenplay)
1967 Barefoot in the Park
Evening Standard Award 1967  
Sam S. Shubert Foundation Award 1968  
Antoinette Perry Award nomination
(best play)
1968 Plaza Suite
Acadamy Award nomination and Writers Guild Award (best screenplay based on material from another medium) 1968 The Odd Couple
Antoinette Perry Award nomination
(best musical)
1969 Promises, Promises
Antoinette Perry Award nomination
(best play)
1969 Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Writers Guild Award and Antoinette Perry Award nomination (best play) 1973 The Sunshine Boys
shared Antoinette Perry Award nomination
(best score)
1974 The Good Doctor
Acadamy Award nomination
(best screenplay adapted from other material)
1975 The Sunshine Boys
special Antoinette Perry Award
(over-all contributions to the theatre)
1975  
Writers Guild Award 1975  
Acadamy Award nomination
(best original screenplay)
1977 The Goodbye Girl
Golden Globe Award
(best screenplay)
1978 The Goodbye Girl
Acadamy Award nomination
(best screenplay adapted from other material)
1978 California Suite
Antoinette Perry Award nomination
(best play)
1978 Chapter Two
Antoinette Perry Award nomination
(best book of a musical)
1979 They're Playing Our Song
Laurel Award, Writers Guild of America 1979  
Honorary L.H.D. degree, Hofstra University 1981  
New York Drama Critics Circle Award
(best new play)
1983 Brighton Beach Memories
Honorary D.H.C. degree, Williams College 1984  
Antoinette Perry Award
(best play)
1987 Broadway Bound
Lifetime Creative Achievement Award, American Comedy Awards, George Schlatter Productions 1989  
Antoinette Perry Award
(best play)
Pulitzer Prize for drama
1991 Lost in Yonkers


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