page_title: John Gielgud
section_title: Tony Awards
hierarchical_section_title: John Gielgud / Awards / Tony Awards
caption_attribution_description: English: John Gielgud in a publicity still for Secret Agent (1936). Image is dated June 1936, the month of the film's American release, suggesting that this still was published in the US.
context_page_description: Sir Arthur John Gielgud OM CH was a British actor and director. Gielgud was born in South Kensington, London and attended Westminster School. He acted in theatre, on radio, television and in movies.
  Gielgud won many awards, including an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards, a Grammy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. In 1992 he received a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, a lifetime achievement award. The Globe Theatre in London was renamed the Gielgud Theatre in 1994 in his honour.
  Gielgud was gay. He was in a long-term relationship until his partner died in 1998. Gielgud died in Wootton Underwood, Buckinghamshire.
context_section_description: 1948: Winner for Outstanding Foreign Company, The Importance of Being Earnest
  1959: Winner, Special Award, for contribution to theatre for his extraordinary insight into the writings of Shakespeare as demonstrated in his one-man show, Ages of Man
  1961: Winner for Best Director (Dramatic), for Big Fish, Little Fish, a play by Hugh Wheeler
  1963: Nominated for Best Director (Dramatic), for The School for Scandal
  1965: Nominated for Best Actor (Dramatic), for Tiny Alice
  1971: Nominated for Best Actor (Dramatic), for Home
caption: Gielgud in a 1930s publicity photograph
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