1957
- Golden Globe Award, Special Achievement Award
1958
- Golden Laurel Award, Female Dramatic Performance: Raintree County
1959
- Golden Laurel Award, Female Dramatic Performance: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
1960
- Academy Award, Best Actress: BUtterfield 8
- Golden Globe Award, Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama): Suddenly, Last Summer
- Golden Laurel Award, Female Dramatic Performance: Suddenly Last Summer
1965
- Golden Laurel Award, Female Star
1966
- Academy Award, Best Actress: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- New York City Film Critics Circle Award, Best Actress: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967
- BAFTA Award, Best British Actress: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (UK)
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award, Best Actress: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Golden Laurel Award, Female Dramatic Performance: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- National Board of Review, Best Actress: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (USA)
1972
- Silver Berlin Bear Award, Berlin International Film Festival, Best Actress: Hammersmith Is Out (Germany)
- David Di Donatello Award, Best Foreign Actress: Zee and Co. (Italy)
1977
- Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year Award, Harvard University
1985
- Golden Globe Award, Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement
- Golden Apple Award, Female Star of the Year
- Woman In Film Crystal Award
1992
- Academy Award, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
1993
- American Film Institute, Lifetime Achievement Award
1997
- Screen Actors Guild, Lifetime Achievement Award
1999
- Appointed Dame Commander of the British Empire (UK)
- Awarded Academy Fellowship, British Academy of Film and Television Arts
2000
- The Vanguard Award, GLAAD Media Awards (USA)
2001
- President’s Citizens Medal (USA)
- Maverick Award, Taos Talking Picture Festival (USA)
2002
- Kennedy Center Honoree, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2005
- BAFTA Award, Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in International Entertainment (UK)
