With such a glittering career including two Academy Awards for Best Actress, naturally Liz Taylor has a complete string of honours and awards that have been bestowed upon her. Lifetime achievement awards have also been awarded in recent years as Elizabeth Taylor has clearly reduced her workload. ALl this confirms is that she truely deserves her accolade as a Hollywood Great.
| Year |
Ceremony |
Award |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 1985 | Golden Globe Award | Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement |
| 1992 | Academy Award | Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award |
| 1993 | American Film Institute | Lifetime Achievement Award |
| 1997 | Screen Actors Guild | Lifetime Achievement Award |
| 1999 | The Queen | Dame Commander of the British Empire (UK) |
| British Academy of Film and Television Arts | awarded Academy Fellowship |
| 2000 | The Vanguard Award | GLAAD Media Awards (USA) |
| 2001 | The President | President’s Citizens Medal (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) |
