Awards and Honors

Ongoing project to list all the Awards and Honors that Miller has received (let us know if you see any that are missing):

Pulitzer Prize (begun 1917)

1949 Death of a Salesman

 

Tony Awards (begun 1947)

Wins:

1947  All My Sons (best Author)

1949 Death of a Salesman (best Author AND Best Play)

1953 The Crucible (Best Play)

1984 Death of a Salesman (Best Revival)

1987 All My Sons (Best Revival)

1998 A View from the Bridge (Best Revival)

1999 Lifetime Achievement Award

2012 Death of a Salesman (Best Revival of a Play)

2016 A View from the Bridge (Best Revival of a Play)

2019 Death of a Salesman (Best Revival of a Play)

Nominations:

1968 The Price (Best Play)

1983 A View from the Bridge (Best Revival)

1993 The Price (Best Revival of a Play)

1994 Broken Glass (Best Play)

2000 The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (Best Play)

2002 The Crucible (Best Revival of a Play)

2010 A View from the Bridge (Best Revival of a Play)

2016 The Crucible (Best Revival of a Play)

Donaldson Awards (ran from 1944 to 1955; became overshadowed by the Tony Awards so ceased)   

1946-1947 All My Sons

1948-1949 Death of a Salesman

1952-1953 The Crucible

Drama League Award (US) (begun 1922; formalized in 1935 with just an award for performance, and added other categories much later)

1994  Unique Contribution to the Theatre (category begun in 1982)

1999 Death of a Salesman (Outstanding Revival of a Play)

2002 The Crucible (Outstanding Revival of a Play)

2010 A View from the Bridge (Outstanding Revival of a Play)

2012 Death of a Salesman (Outstanding Revival of a Play)

2016 A View from the Bridge (Outstanding Revival of a Play)

Obie Award (begun 1955)

1957-1958 The Crucible (Best Revival)

Olivier Award (UK) (Begun 1976 as West End Theatre Awards and renamed after Olivier in 1984)

Wins:

1995 Broken Glass (Best New Play)

2007 The Crucible (Best Revival)

2015 A View from the Bridge (Best Revival)

Nominations:

1986 The American Clock (Best New Play)

1994 The Last Yankee (Best New Play)

2006  Death of a Salesman (Best Revival)

2010 A View from the Bridge (Best Revival)

2011 All My Sons (Best Revival)

2015 The Crucible (Best Revival)

2019 The Price (Best Revival)

2020 Death of a Salesman (Best Revival)

Kennedy Center Honors (begun 1978)

1984 Lifetime Achievement

Dramatist Guild Awards (begun 1971 with the Hull-Warriner Award for plays dealing with controversial subjects)

2000 Career Achievement Award (first to win in new category). Presented by the Dramatists Guild Council in recognition of lifetime achievement in theatrical writings.

Various Film Awards

Wins:

1981 Prime Time Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special for Playing for Time

1964 Prime Time Emmy for Special Classifications of Individual Achievements for Death of a Salesman (Lee J. Cobb TV version)

Nominations:

1997 Miller’s only Oscar nomination was for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published for The Crucible. He was also nominated for the same film for a BAFTA Award, 20/20 Award, Satellite Award and Awards Circuit Community Award (1996) all for Best Adapted Screenplay, Online Film and Television Association nominated him for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

1986 Prime Time Emmy for Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special for Death of a Salesman (Dustin Hoffman TV version).

Mellon Bank Award

1991 Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities

William Inge Festival Award (begun 1981)

1995 Distinguished Achievement in American Theater

Edward Albee Last Frontier Playwright Award (begun 1993)

1996 gains the award

Jerusalem Prize (begun 1963)

2003 gains this biennial literary award given to writers whose works have dealt with themes of human freedom in society

Prince of Asturia Award (Spanish Award–begun 1981, renamed Princess of Asturia Award in 2015)

2002 Premio Prìncipe de Asturias de las Letras (Literature), for being “an undeniable master of contemporary drama who has projected modern day society’s fears, conflicts and aspirations through the medium of the theatre, demonstrating his noteworthy independence of spirit and critical sense, and reworking the ever-present lessons in humanism of the best in stage production.” 

Signature Theatre (NY)

1997-1998 Dedicates whole season to Miller’s work: produced The American Clock
The Last Yankee, I Can’t Remember Anything
The Pussycat and the Expert Plumber Who Was a Man
and Mr. Peters’ Connections

American Academy in Berlin

1998 Distinguished Inaugural Senior Fellow

Avery Hopwood Award for Drama (Michigan University)

1936 No Villain (first place)

1937 Honors at Dawn (first place)

1938 The Great Disobedience (second place)

Bureau of New Plays (NY)

1937 They Too Arise (revised version of No Villain)

Theater Guild National Award (NY)

1944 The Man Who Had All the Luck

New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award (begun 1935)

1947 All My Sons (Best Play)

1949 Death of a Salesman (Best Play)

1953 The Crucible (Runner-up for Best American Play)

Drama Desk Award (begun 1955)

Wins:

1984 Death of a Salesman (Outstanding Revival)

1998 A View from the Bridge (Outstanding Revival of a Play)

1999 Death of a Salesman (Outstanding Revival of a Play)

2010 A View from the Bridge (Outstanding Revival of a Play)

2012 Death of a Salesman (Outstanding Revival of a Play)

2016 A View from the Bridge (Outstanding Revival of a Play)

Nominations:

1968 The Price (Outstanding Play)

1976 A Memory of Two Mondays (Outstanding Revival of a Play)

1993 The Price (Outstanding Revival of a Play)

1998 The American Clock (Outstanding Revival of a Play)

1998 All My Sons (Outstanding Revival of a Play)

1999 The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (Outstanding Play)

2000 The Price (Outstanding Revival of a Play)

2002 The Crucible (Outstanding Revival of a Play)

2016 Death of a Salesman (Outstanding Revival of a Play)

Theater Club Award

1949 Death of a Salesman

National Institute of Arts and Letters (US) [In 1977 this was merged into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, each considered the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in the United States]

1958 Elected to join

1959 Gold Medal for Drama

International P. E. N. [The Arthur Miller PEN America Freedom to Write Lecture would later be instituted in his honor, as the culminating event of the week-long PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature and features leading voices addressing critical free expression challenges]

1965-1969 Elected International President

Democratic National Convention

1968 Elected as Democratic delegate from Roxbury and goes to Chicago

1972 Elected as Democratic delegate from Roxbury and goes to Miami

NEH Fellowship (established in 1977)

2001 National Humanities Medal and fellowship awarded. Miller gave the Jefferson Lecture, which is considered the highest honor the federal government confers for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. His speech On Politics and the Art of Acting was later published under that title. Here is a link to the NEH page that outlines why he was chosen, and has other details about his life and work.

John H. Finley Award

2001 Exemplary Service to New York City

Book-of-the-Month Club

1949 Death of a Salesman

1984 Timebends: A Life (autobiography)

Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (begun 1994),

1999 Given annually to “a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind’s enjoyment and understanding of life.”

Praemium Imperiale (begun 1989)

2001 Prize for film/theatre. An international culture prize in several categories in Memory of His Imperial Highness Prince Takamatsu of Japan.

St. Louis Literary Award (begun 1967)

1980 Presented annually by St. Louis University to a distinguished figure in literature

PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award (begun 1998)

1998 Master American Dramatist (two selected each year)

National Book Awards (begun 1950)

2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (link to his acceptance speech

Jewish Hall of Fame (begun 1968)

2000 Literature Honoree [Arthur Miller medal designed by Marika Somogyi, struck by Medalcraft Mint in quantities of 165 bronze, 65 pure silver, plus 13 cast in 10kt gold. Obverse: Portrait, Arthur Miller (signature). Reverse: Salesman, ATTENTION MUST BE PAID, MS (monogram). 49 x 47 mm.] Link is to their bio and a quiz on Miller!

National Medal of Arts (begun 1985)

1993 as playwright; highest honor given to artists and arts patrons by the United States government

American Theater Hall of Fame (begun 1972)

1979 was inducted

Evelyn F. Burkey Award (begun 1978)

1993 Arthur Miller was the chosen winner of the Evelyn F. Burkey Award for bringing “honor and dignity to writers everywhere,” by the Writers Guild of America, East.

Four Freedoms Award (begun 1982); annual awards presented to those whose achievements have demonstrated a commitment to different aspects of freedom.

1993 Freedom of Speech Award

1997, Miller agree to allow the University of Michigan to build a theater named after him: the Arthur Miller Theatre is the only theatre to bear his name.

Discovered in 1967, the minor planet 3769 Arthurmiller is named after the playwright, the name having been suggested by the american Astronomer Edward Bowell. Rather oddly planets 3767 and 3768 are respectively named DiMaggio and Monroe, though no mention of who suggested these names and those planets were discovered in 1986 and 1937.