Editing Neil Simon (section)

== Awards and honors ==
{{main|List of awards and nominations received by Neil Simon}}
Simon held three [[honorary degree]]s: a [[Doctor of Humane Letters]] from [[Hofstra University]], a [[Doctor of Letters]] from [[Marquette University]] and a [[Doctor of Law]] from [[Williams College]].<ref>{{cite news |agency = [[Associated Press]] |title = Neil Simon Takes His Honorary LL.D with a Grain of Salt |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/04/us/neil-simon-takes-his-honorary-lld-with-grain-of-salt.html |work = The New York Times |date = June 4, 1984 |access-date = June 14, 2008 }}</ref> In 1983 Simon became the only living playwright to have a New York City theatre named after him.<ref>{{cite book |last = Simon |first = Neil |author-link = Neil Simon |year = 2003 |url = https://archive.org/details/oxfordencycloped0002unse_e9d3 |title = The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance |editor-first = Dennis |editor-last = Kennedy |publisher = Oxford University Press |location = Oxford |isbn = 978-0198601746 |url-access = registration }}</ref> The Alvin Theatre on Broadway was renamed the [[Neil Simon Theatre]] in his honor, and he was an honorary board of trustees member of the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, America's oldest theatre. Also in 1983, Simon was inducted into the [[American Theater Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/10/theater/theater-hall-of-fame-gets-10-new-members.html |title = Theater Hall of Fame Gets 10 New Members |first = Carol |last = Lawson |work = The New York Times |date = May 10, 1983 |access-date = August 27, 2018 }}</ref>

In 1965, he won the Tony Award for Best Playwright (''The Odd Couple''), and in 1975, a special Tony Award for his overall contribution to [[Theater in the United States|American theater]].<ref name="1991sourcebook">{{cite book |last1=Guernsey |first1=Otis L. |last2=Sweet |first2=Jeffrey |title=The Applause-Best Plays Theater Yearbook, 1990–1991: The Complete Broadway and Off-Broadway Sourcebook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nzziDo71Xb0C&pg=PA185 |publisher=[[Hal Leonard Corporation|Applause Books]] |location=Milwaukee, WI |date=1992 |isbn=978-1557831071 |pages=183–185}}</ref> Simon won the 1978 Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay for ''The Goodbye Girl''.<ref name="USAToday">{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/08/26/neil-simon-who-wrote-odd-couple-and-sweet-charity-dies-91/1103917002/ |title=America's playwright Neil Simon, who wrote 'The Odd Couple' and 'Sweet Charity,' has died |last=Gardner |first=Elysa |date=August 26, 2018 |work=[[USA Today]] |access-date=August 27, 2018}}</ref> For ''Brighton Beach Memoirs'' (1983), he was awarded the [[New York Drama Critics' Circle]] Award,<ref name="1997casebook">{{cite book |last=Konas |first=Gary |title=Neil Simon: A Casebook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VGUgOh_tjaUC&pg=PA14 |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |date=1997 |isbn=9780815321323 |pages=1–14 |quote=Azenberg... has produced every one of Neil Simon's 17 plays since 1973's ''The Sunshine Boys'', with number 18 in the works.}}</ref> followed by another Tony Award for Best Play of 1985, ''Biloxi Blues''.<ref name="1991sourcebook" /> In 1991, he won the [[Pulitzer Prize]]<ref name="pulitzer">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA131 |title=Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners |last1=Brennan |first1=Elizabeth A. |last2=Clarage |first2=Elizabeth C. |name-list-style=amp |date=1999 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=9781573561112 |pages=131–32}}</ref> along with the Tony Award for ''Lost in Yonkers'' (1991).<ref name="1991sourcebook" />

The Neil Simon Festival<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.simonfest.org/ |title=Neil Simon Festival |publisher=Simonfest.org |access-date=May 15, 2017}}</ref> is a professional summer [[repertory theatre]] devoted to preserving the works of Simon and his contemporaries. The Neil Simon Festival was founded by Richard Dean Bugg in 2003.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/ci_12948934 |title=Neil Simon Festival: Cedar City's other festival keeps on with the show |last=Orellana |first=Roxanna |date=August 1, 2009 |work=[[The Salt Lake Tribune]] |access-date=February 1, 2017}}</ref>

In 2006, Simon received the [[Mark Twain Prize for American Humor]].<ref name="VOA">{{cite web |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/neil-simon-broadway-s-master-of-comedy-dies-at-91/4544947.html |title=Neil Simon, Broadway's Master of Comedy, Dies at 91 |website=VOA|date=August 26, 2018 }}</ref>