Greta Garbo-Honors, Awards, and Nominations

  

 

Garbo was nominated four times for an Academy Award for Best Actress, including twice in 1930, for “Anna Christie” and “Romance”. She lost out to Irving Thalberg's wife, Norma Shearer, who won for “The Divorcee”.  In 1937, Garbo was nominated for “Camille”, but Luise Rainer won for “The Good Earth”.  In 1939, Garbo was nominated for “Ninotchka”, but again came away empty-handed.  “Gone With the Wind”
swept the major awards, including Best Actress, which went to Vivien Leigh. 

 

Garbo was awarded an Academy Honorary Award "for her unforgettable screen performances" in 1954.  She did not show up at the ceremony, and the statuette was mailed to her home address.

 

Garbo twice received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for “Anna Karenina”, and “Camille”.

 

Garbo won the National Board of Review for Best Acting Award for “Camille”,  “Ninotchka”, and “Two-Faced Woman”.

 

The Swedish royal medal, Litteris et Artibus, awarded to people who have made important contributions to culture, especially music, dramatic art or literature, was presented to Garbo in January 1937.

 

In a 1950, Daily Variety opinion poll, Garbo was voted Best Actress of the Half Century.

 

In November 1983, Garbo was made a Commander of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star by order of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

 

In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of greatest female stars of all time after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman.

 

For her contributions to cinema, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

 

Garbo was once designated the most beautiful woman who ever lived by the Guinness Book of World Records.

 

In September 2005, the United States Postal Service and Swedish Posten jointly issued two commemorative stamps bearing her image.

 

On 6 April 2011, the Bank of Sweden announced that Garbo's portrait will be featured on the 100 krona banknote, beginning in 2014–15.