Marilyn Monroe Awards and Nominations

 

Year

Recognized by:

Award / Nomination

 

1948

The Los Angels Press Club

Miss Press Club

 

 

 

1951

Henrietta Awards

The Best Young Box Office Personality

 

Soldiers posted to the Aleutians

The Girl Most Likely to Thaw Alaska

 

The 7th Division Medical Corps

The Girl Most Wanted to Examine

 

 

Stars and Strips

Miss Cheesecake of the Year

 

 

The All Weather Fighter Squadron 3, San Diego

The Girl They Would Most Like to Intercept

 

 

 

The Present All GIs Would Like To Find in Their Christmas Stocking

 

 

 

 

1952

Detroit Free Press

New Faces Award

 

 

Look Magazine

Look Award

 

Stars and Strips

Cheesecake Queen of 1952

 

 

Look Magazine Achievement Awards

Most Promising Female Newcomer

 

 

 

 

 

1953

Photoplay Magazine Awards

Fastest Rising Star of 1952

 

Independent Theatre Owners of Arkansas

The State's Most Popular Movie Actress (Selected by a poll of 109,248 Arkansas theatre patrons)

 

Redbook Magazine

Best Young Box Office Personality

The Jewelry Academy

The Best Friend a Diamond Ever Had

 

Golden Globe Award

Female World Film Favorite

 

 

Advertising Association of the West

The Most Advertised Girl in the World

 

 

 

 

 

1954

Photoplay Magazine Awards

Best Actress - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire

 

 

VFW Post 398, Inglewood, CA 

Recognition in Commemoration of Her Unselfish Service Rendered to the Armed Forces in Korea, Presented June, 19, 1954

 

 

 

 

1956

British Academy Awards

Nomination:  Best Foreign Actress - The Seven Year Itch

 

 

 

 

 

1958

David di Donatello Prize (Italian equivalent of the Oscar)

Best Foreign Actress of 1958 - The Prince and the Showgirl

 

British Academy Awards

Nomination:  Best Foreign Actress - The Prince and the Showgirl

 

 

Harvard Lampoon

The Thank-God Award:  To Marilyn Monroe, who in a sweeping public service has made no movies this year

 

 

 

 

 

1959

 

Crystal Star Award

(French equivalent of the Oscar)

Best Foreign Actress - The Prince and the Showgirl

 

 

 

 

1960

Golden Globe Award

Best Actress in a Comedy - Some Like It Hot

 

 

 

 

1962

Golden Globe Award

Female World Film Favorite

 

 

 

 

Other:

Some Like It Hot and All About Eve scored positions fourteen and sixteen respectively in the American Film Institute's 1998 list of America's Greatest 100 Movies.

 

 

 

In June 1999 Marilyn came sixth in the American Film Institute's list of the top twenty-five female stars of all time.

 

 

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