Editing John Thaw (section)

==Honours and awards==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Award
! Category
! Work
! Result
|-
| 1977
| [[Evening Standard British Film Award]]
| Best Actor
| ''[[Sweeney!]]''
| {{Won}}
|-
| 1988
| [[British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA]]
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role|Best Actor in a Supporting Role]]
| [[Cry Freedom|''Cry Freedom'']]
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| 1990
|rowspan=4|[[British Academy Television Awards|BAFTA TV]]
| rowspan=4|[[British Academy Television Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| rowspan=4|[[Inspector Morse (TV series)|''Inspector Morse'']]
| {{Won}}
|-
| 1991
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| 1992
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| 1993
| {{Won}}
|-
| 1995
| [[Aftonbladet]] TV Prize, [[Sweden]]
| Best Foreign TV Personality – Male (Bästa utländska man)
|
| {{Won}}
|-
| rowspan=2|1998
| rowspan=6|[[National Television Award]]
| [[Special Recognition Award]]
| rowspan=2|[[Inspector Morse (TV series)|''Inspector Morse'']]
| {{Won}}
|-
| rowspan=5|Most Popular Actor
| {{Won}}
|-
| 1999
| [[Goodnight Mister Tom (film)|''Goodnight, Mister Tom'']]
| {{Won}}
|-
| 2000
| [[Monsignor Renard|''Monsignor Renard'']]
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| 2001
| [[Inspector Morse (TV series)|''Inspector Morse'']] and Academy Fellowship
| {{Won}}
|-
| 2002
| ''Buried Treasure''
| {{Nominated}}
|}

In 1994, Thaw was awarded with [[CBE]]. A memorial bench is dedicated to Thaw within the grounds of [[St Paul's Covent Garden]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://londonist.com/2014/11/londons-famous-bench-dedications |title=London's Famous Bench Dedications |date=21 October 2016 |website=Londonist.com |access-date=12 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180306002313/https://londonist.com/2014/11/londons-famous-bench-dedications |archive-date=6 March 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>