Editing Laurence Olivier (section)

==Awards and honours==
{{main|List of awards and nominations received by Laurence Olivier}}
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Olivier was appointed [[Knight Bachelor]] in the [[1947 Birthday Honours]] for services to the stage and to films.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=37977 |date=6 June 1947 |page=2572 |supp=y}}</ref> A [[life peerage]] as Baron Olivier, of [[Brighton]] in the County of [[Sussex]], followed in the [[1970 Birthday Honours]] for services to the theatre.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=45319 |date=9 March 1971 |page=2001}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=45117 |date=5 June 1970 |page=6365 |supp=y}}</ref> (He had declined a similar offer in 1967.)<ref>Letter of offer from prime minister Harold Wilson, 8 May 1967; Olivier's letter of refusal, 14 May 1967; in Daniel Rosenthal, ed., ''Dramatic Exchanges: The Lives and Letters of the National Theatre'', 2018, pp. 57–58</ref> Olivier was later appointed to the [[Order of Merit]] in 1981.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=48524 |date=13 February 1981 |page=2145}}</ref> He also received honours from foreign governments. In 1949, he was made Commander of the Danish [[Order of the Dannebrog]]; France appointed him {{lang|fr|Officier}}, [[Legion of Honour]], in 1953; the Italian government created him {{lang|it|Grande Ufficiale}}, [[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic]], in 1953; and in 1971 he was granted the Order of Yugoslav Flag with Golden Wreath.<ref name="who"/>

From academic and other institutions, Olivier received honorary doctorates from [[Tufts University]] in [[Massachusetts]] (1946), [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] (1957) and [[University of Edinburgh|Edinburgh]] (1964). He was also awarded the Danish [[Sonning Prize]] in 1966, the Gold Medallion of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities]] in 1968; and the [[Albert Medal (Royal Society of Arts)|Albert Medal]] of the [[Royal Society of Arts]] in 1976.<ref name="who"/>{{sfn|Coleman|2006|loc=photo 39, facing p. 416}}{{efn|Olivier was also offered an honorary degree from [[Yale University]], but was unable to receive it.{{sfn|Coleman|2006|loc=photo 39, facing p. 416}}}}

For his work in films, Olivier received three [[Academy Awards]]: an honorary award for ''Henry V'' (1947), a Best Actor award for ''Hamlet'' (1948), and a second honorary award in 1979 to recognise his lifetime of contribution to the art of film. As the producer for ''Hamlet'' he also collected the award for Best Picture at the 1949 ceremony. In total, he was nominated for ten acting Oscars and one for the direction of '' Hamlet''.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1949 |work= AMPAS Academy Award Database |title= Academy Award Database 1949 results |access-date= 29 April 2021 |archive-date= 11 November 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141111072021/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1949 |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.oscars.org/search/site/olivier |title= Olivier |publisher= Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date= 10 January 2015 |archive-date= 24 September 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150924141053/http://www.oscars.org/search/site/olivier |url-status= dead }}</ref> He also won two [[British Academy Film Awards]] out of ten nominations,{{efn|For ''Richard III'' (1955) and ''Oh! What a Lovely War'' (1969).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=laurence+olivier&=Search |title=BAFTA Awards Search |publisher=British Academy of Film and Television Arts |access-date=13 January 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150117235003/http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=laurence%20olivier |archive-date=17 January 2015}}</ref>}} five Emmy Awards out of nine nominations,{{efn|For his appearances in screen versions of ''The Moon and Sixpence'' (1960), ''Long Day's Journey into Night'' (1973), ''Love Among the Ruins'', ''Brideshead Revisited'' (1982) and ''King Lear'' (1984){{sfn|Tanitch|1985|pp=188–189}}}} and three [[Golden Globe Award]]s out of six nominations.{{efn|As Best Actor for ''Hamlet'', Best Supporting Actor for ''Marathon Man'' and the [[Cecil B. DeMille Award]] for lifetime achievement.{{sfn|Tanitch|1985|pp=188–189}}}} He was nominated once for a [[Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play|Tony Award]] (for best actor, as Archie Rice) but did not win.{{sfn|Tanitch|1985|pp=188–189}}<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.tonyawards.com/p/tonys_search| title=Laurence Olivier| publisher=Tony Awards| access-date=13 January 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160831204617/http://www.tonyawards.com/p/tonys_search| archive-date=31 August 2016| url-status=dead| df=dmy-all}}</ref>

In February 1960, for his contribution to the film industry, Olivier was inducted into the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]], with a star at 6319 [[Hollywood Boulevard]];<ref name="Walk of fame"/> he is included in the [[American Theater Hall of Fame]].<ref name="Hall o F"/> In 1977, Olivier was awarded a [[British Film Institute Fellowship]].{{sfn|Shail|2007|p=158}}

In addition to the naming of the National Theatre's largest auditorium in Olivier's honour, he is commemorated in the [[Laurence Olivier Awards]], bestowed annually since 1984 by the [[Society of London Theatre]].<ref name="who"/> In 1991, Gielgud unveiled a memorial stone commemorating Olivier in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey.{{sfn|Gielgud|2004|p=483}} In 2007, the centenary of Olivier's birth, a life-sized statue of him was unveiled on the [[South Bank]], outside the National Theatre;<ref name="D Tel: Statue"/> the same year the BFI held a retrospective season of his film work.<ref name="TO: BFI season"/>