Debbie Reynolds was nominated for an award.
Debbie Reynolds . Her performance as Brown earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress . In 1969 , she starred on television in The Debbie Reynolds Show , for which she received a Golden Globe nomination . In 1973 , Reynolds starred in a Broadway revival of the musical Irene and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical . She was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance in A Gift of Love ( 1999 ) and an Emmy Award for playing Grace 's mother Bobbi on Will & Grace . In 2016 , she received the Academy Awards Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award .