Editing Katharine Hepburn (section)

==Awards and nominations==
{{Main|List of awards and nominations received by Katharine Hepburn}}

Hepburn won four [[Academy Awards]], the record number for a performer, and received a total of 12 Oscar nominations for [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]—a number surpassed only by [[Meryl Streep]].<ref name="film site">{{cite web|title=Academy Awards Best Actress|url=http://www.filmsite.org/bestactress.html|publisher=filmsite|access-date=October 16, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211063526/http://www.filmsite.org/bestactress.html|archive-date=February 11, 2015}}</ref> Hepburn also holds the record for the longest time span between first and last Oscar nominations, at 48 years.<ref name="film site" /> She received two awards and five nominations from the [[British Academy Film Awards]], one award and six nominations from the [[Emmy Awards]], eight [[Golden Globe Award]] nominations, two [[Tony Award]] nominations, and awards from the [[Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)|Cannes Film Festival]], [[Volpi Cup|Venice Film Festival]], the [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress|New York Film Critics Circle Awards]], the [[People's Choice Awards]], and others. Hepburn was inducted into the [[American Theater Hall of Fame]] in 1979. She also won a [[Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award|Lifetime Achievement Award]] from the [[Screen Actors Guild Awards]] in 1979 and received the [[Kennedy Center Honors]], which recognize a lifetime of accomplishments in the arts, in 1990.<ref>{{cite web|title=Katharine Hepburn – Awards |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000031/awards |publisher=Internet Movie Database |access-date=September 27, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004074300/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000031/awards |archive-date=October 4, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=List of Kennedy Center Honorees|url=http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/honors/history.cfm|publisher=The Kennedy Center|access-date=October 16, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114061915/http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/honors/history.cfm|archive-date=January 14, 2015}}</ref>

Hepburn was recognized by the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] for the following performances:
{|class="wikitable"
| Year
| Ceremony
| Award
| Results
| Works/s
|-
| 1934 
| [[6th Academy Awards]] 
| rowspan="12" | [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| {{Won}} 
| ''[[Morning Glory (1933 film)|Morning Glory]]''
|-
| 1936 
| [[8th Academy Awards]] 
| {{Nominated}} 
| ''[[Alice Adams (1935 film)|Alice Adams]]''
|-
| 1941 
| [[13th Academy Awards]] 
| {{Nominated}} 
| ''[[The Philadelphia Story (film)|The Philadelphia Story]]''
|-
| 1943 
| [[15th Academy Awards]] 
| {{Nominated}} 
| ''[[Woman of the Year]]''
|-
| 1952 
| [[24th Academy Awards]] 
| {{Nominated}} 
| ''[[The African Queen (film)|The African Queen]]''
|-
| 1956
| [[28th Academy Awards]] 
| {{Nominated}}
| ''[[Summertime (1955 film)|Summertime]]''
|-
| 1957
| [[29th Academy Awards]] 
| {{Nominated}}
| ''[[The Rainmaker (1956 film)|The Rainmaker]]''
|-
| 1960 
| [[32nd Academy Awards]] 
| {{Nominated}} 
| ''[[Suddenly, Last Summer (film)|Suddenly, Last Summer]]''
|-
| 1963 
| [[35th Academy Awards]] 
| {{Nominated}}
| ''[[Long Day's Journey into Night (1962 film)|Long Day's Journey Into Night]]''
|-
| 1968 
| [[40th Academy Awards]] 
| {{Won}} 
| ''[[Guess Who's Coming to Dinner]]''
|-
| 1969
| [[41st Academy Awards]] 
| {{Won}}
| ''[[The Lion in Winter (1968 film)|The Lion in Winter]]'' {{small|(tied with [[Barbra Streisand]] for ''[[Funny Girl (film)|Funny Girl]]'')}}
|-
| 1982 
| [[54th Academy Awards]] 
| {{Won}}
|''[[On Golden Pond (1981 film)|On Golden Pond]]''
|}