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{{Short description|1982 film directed by Sydney Pollack}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Tootsie
| image          = Tootsie imp.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| alt            = 
| director       = [[Sydney Pollack]]
| screenplay     = {{Plainlist|
* [[Larry Gelbart]]
* [[Murray Schisgal]]
}}
| story          = {{Plainlist|
* [[Don McGuire (actor)|Don McGuire]]
* Larry Gelbart
}}
| producer       = {{Plainlist|
* Sydney Pollack
* [[Dick Richards]]
}}
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
<!--PLEASE DO NOT ADD BILL MURRAY HERE AS HIS NAME DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE POSTER-->
* [[Dustin Hoffman]]
* [[Jessica Lange]]
* [[Teri Garr]]
* [[Dabney Coleman]]
* [[Charles Durning]]
}}
| cinematography = [[Owen Roizman]]
| editing        = {{Plainlist|
* [[Fredric Steinkamp]]
* [[William Steinkamp]]
}}
| music          = [[Dave Grusin]]
| studio         = [[Mirage Enterprises]]
| distributor    = [[Columbia Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|1982|12|17}}
| runtime        = 116 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $22 million<ref name="BOMojo">{{cite web |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=tootsie.htm |title=''Tootsie (1982)'' > Summary > Production Budget > Domestic Total Gross|work=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=2012-08-31}}</ref>
| gross          = $241 million
}}
'''''Tootsie''''' is a 1982 American [[satire|satirical]] [[romantic comedy]] film directed by [[Sydney Pollack]] from a screenplay by [[Larry Gelbart]] and [[Murray Schisgal]] and a story by Gelbart and [[Don McGuire (actor)|Don McGuire]]. It stars [[Dustin Hoffman]], [[Jessica Lange]], [[Teri Garr]], [[Dabney Coleman]], and [[Charles Durning]]. In the film, Michael Dorsey (Hoffman), a talented actor with a reputation for being professionally difficult, runs into romantic trouble after adopting a female persona to land a job.

''Tootsie'' was partly inspired from a play written by McGuire in the early 1970s, and was first made into screenplay by [[Dick Richards]], [[Bob Kaufman]], and [[Robert Evans]], in 1979. Richards, who was selected as director, introduced the project to Hoffman, who obtained complete [[creative control]] after signing on: revisions to the screenplay and from Richards and his successor, [[Hal Ashby]], being replaced by Pollack caused delays to production, which eventually began in November 1981. [[Principal photography]] took place across [[New York (state)|New York]] and in [[New Jersey]], with filming locations including [[Manhattan]], [[Hurley, New York|Hurley]], and [[Fort Lee, New Jersey|Fort Lee]]. The film's theme song, "[[It Might Be You]]", performed by [[Stephen Bishop (singer)|Stephen Bishop]], peaked at No. 25 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]].

''Tootsie'' was theatrically released in the United States on December 17, 1982, by [[Columbia Pictures]]. The film grossed $241 million worldwide, becoming the third-highest grossing film of 1982, and received critical acclaim for its humor, Hoffman and Lange's performances, dialogue, and social commentary. It was nominated for ten awards at the [[55th Academy Awards]], including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], and won [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] for Lange. In 1998, the film was selected for preservation in the U.S. [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref name=":0" />

==Plot==
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Michael Dorsey is a respected actor, but nobody in New York City wants to hire him because he is a perfectionist and difficult to work with. He makes ends meet by working as a server in a restaurant and teaching acting classes.

After many months without an acting job, Michael hears of an opening on the popular daytime [[soap opera]] ''Southwest General'' from his friend and acting student Sandy Lester, who unsuccessfully auditions for the role of hospital administrator Emily Kimberly. In desperation, and following an argument with his agent, Michael disguises himself as a woman named "Dorothy Michaels" and auditions for ''Southwest General'' himself, and he is cast as Emily Kimberly. Michael takes the job as a way to raise $8,000 to produce a play by his roommate Jeff Slater, which will star himself and Sandy.

As "Dorothy", Michael plays Emily Kimberly as a plausible feminist, which surprises the other actors and the crew, who expected "Dorothy" to give a mild-mannered performance, in contrast to the empowered "[[Gloria Steinem]] type" suggested in the script. His character quickly becomes a national sensation.

When Sandy catches Michael in her bedroom half undressed because he wants to try on her clothes for ideas for Dorothy's wardrobe, he covers up by claiming he wants to have sex with her. Sandy is receptive and they sleep together. Exacerbating matters further, Michael is attracted to one of his co-stars, Julie Nichols, a single mother with a daughter from a previous relationship and in an unhealthy relationship with the show's amoral, sexist director, Ron Carlisle.

At a party, when Michael (as himself) approaches Julie with a pick-up line to which she had previously told "Dorothy" she would be receptive, she throws a drink in his face. Later, as Dorothy, when he makes tentative advances, Julie (having just ended her relationship with Ron per Dorothy's advice) makes it known that she is not a lesbian.

Meanwhile, Dorothy has her own admirers to contend with: older cast member John Van Horn and Julie's widowed father, Les. Les proposes marriage, insisting that Dorothy think about it before answering. When Michael returns home, he finds John, who almost forces himself on Dorothy until Jeff walks in on them. A few minutes later, Sandy arrives, asking why he has not answered her calls. Michael admits he is in love with another woman, and Sandy screams and breaks up with him.

The tipping point comes when, due to Dorothy's popularity, the show's producers want to extend her contract for another year. Michael extricates himself when a technical problem forces the cast to perform live, by improvising a revelation about Emily: that she is actually Edward, Emily's twin brother who took her place to avenge her. This allows everybody a way out, but Julie is so outraged at Michael's deception that she punches him in the stomach once the cameras have stopped rolling and storms off.

Some weeks later, Michael is moving forward with producing Jeff's play. He returns Les's engagement ring, and Les says, "The only reason you're still living is because I never kissed you." Despite his anger, Les admits that Michael was good company as Dorothy, and Michael buys him a beer.

Michael later waits for Julie outside the studio. She is reluctant to talk to him, but he tells her that he and her father played pool and had a good time. She finally admits she misses Dorothy. Michael tells her Dorothy is within him and he misses her too. He remarks, "I was a better man with you as a woman than I ever was with a woman as a man." Julie forgives him and they walk away together, engaged in conversation.

==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
* [[Dustin Hoffman]] as Michael Dorsey, an out-of-work actor who disguises himself as a woman, "Dorothy Michaels", to get a role on the soap opera ''Southwest General''
* [[Jessica Lange]] as Julie Nichols, an actress
* [[Teri Garr]] as Sandy Lester, an actress
* [[Dabney Coleman]] as Ron Carlisle, the director
* [[Charles Durning]] as Leslie "Les" Nichols, Julie's father
* [[Bill Murray]] as Jeff Slater, a playwright and Michael's roommate
* [[Sydney Pollack]] as George Fields, Michael's agent
* [[George Gaynes]] as John Van Horn, a soap opera actor
* [[Geena Davis]] as April Page, a soap opera actress
* [[Doris Belack]] as Rita Marshall, the producer
* [[Ellen Foley]] as Jacqui, a production aide
* [[Lynne Thigpen]] as Jo, a production aide
* Amy Lawrence as Amy, Julie's daughter
* [[Christine Ebersole]] as Linda, an actress at Michael's birthday party
* Anne Shropshire as Mrs. Crawley, Julie's babysitter
* Susan Egbert as Diane, Jeff's girlfriend
}}

==Production==
In the 1970s, fashion company executive Charles Evans began filmmaking, following in the path of his brother [[Robert Evans]], a successful actor, producer and studio executive, "because I enjoy movies very much. I have the time to do it. And I believe if done wisely, it can be a profitable business."<ref name="Eller">{{cite news |date=July 28, 1995 |first=Claudia |last=Eller |author-link=Claudia Eller |title=Company Town : Real Key Is How Goldwyn Is Treated |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-07-28-fi-28893-story.html |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] }}</ref> In the early 1970s, Don McGuire's ''Would I Lie to You?'', a play about an unemployed male actor who cross-dresses in order to find jobs, was shopped around Hollywood for several years until it came to the attention of comedian and actor [[Buddy Hackett]] in 1978. Interested in playing the role of the talent agent, Hackett showed Evans the script, and Evans purchased an [[Option (filmmaking)|option]] on the play. Delays in the film's production forced Evans to renew the option,<ref name="Cook95">Cook, Philip S.; Gomery, Douglas; and Lichty, Lawrence Wilson (1989) ''American Media: The Wilson Quarterly Reader.'' Washington, D.C.: Wilson Center Press, p. 95, {{ISBN|0943875102}}.</ref> but in 1979, he cowrote a screenplay based on the play with director [[Dick Richards]] and screenwriter Bob Kaufman.<ref name="Thompson75">Thompson, Kristin (2001) ''Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique.'' 2nd ed. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, p. 75, {{ISBN|0674010639}}.</ref> A few months into the process, Richards shared the screenplay with [[Dustin Hoffman]], his partner in a company that bought and developed film-development properties. Hoffman wanted complete [[Artistic control|creative control]] and Evans agreed to remove himself from screenwriting tasks, instead becoming a producer of the film, which was retitled ''Tootsie.''<ref name="Cook95" /> Before Hoffman officially became involved, his role had been offered to [[Peter Sellers]] and [[Michael Caine]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Evans|first=Bradford|title=The Lost Roles of Peter Sellers|date=31 January 2013|website=[[Splitsider]]|url=http://splitsider.com/2013/01/the-lost-roles-of-peter-sellers/|access-date=15 August 2015|archive-date=14 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714154256/http://splitsider.com/2013/01/the-lost-roles-of-peter-sellers/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The film remained in development for another year as producers waited for a revised script.<ref>{{cite news|title=Marilyn Beck's Hollywood: Angie Dickinson bares all for 'Dressed to Kill role|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JiAqAAAAIBAJ&pg=6918,2335828&dq=tootsie+filming&hl=en|access-date=September 30, 2013|newspaper=[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]]|date=July 25, 1980|page=3}}</ref> As preproduction began, the project experienced additional delays when Richards left as director over "creative differences".<ref>{{cite news|last=Blowen|first=Michael|title=Dustin Hoffman tells why he was tough about 'Tootsie'|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/294165702|access-date=September 30, 2013|newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]]|date=December 12, 1982|id={{ProQuest|294165702}} }} {{Better source needed|date=March 2022}}</ref> He instead became one of the film's producers, and [[Hal Ashby]] became the director. Columbia  then forced Ashby to quit because of the threat of legal action that would ensue if his postproduction commitments on ''[[Lookin' to Get Out]]'' were not fulfilled.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dawson|first=Nick|title=Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel|year=2011|publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]]|location=[[Lexington, Kentucky]]|isbn=978-0813134635}}</ref> Hoffman, in an attempt to get the interest of [[Sydney Pollack]] to direct, asked [[Elaine May]], who provided a few weeks of work that added the character played by Murray to go along with suggesting Garr for a key role. May, alongside other writers who lent suggestions (such as [[Barry Levinson]]), albeit uncredited.
<ref>{{cite web | url=https://eriklundegaard.com/item/she-has-a-name-it-s-elaine-not-tootsie-or-toots-or-sweetie-or-honey-or-doll-elaine-may | title=She Has a Name. It's Elaine. Not Tootsie or Toots or Sweetie or Hon }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.flavorwire.com/496646/why-tootsie-is-one-of-the-finest-and-most-important-comedies-ever-made | title=Why 'Tootsie' is One of the Finest (And Most Important) Comedies Ever Made | date=2 January 2015 }}</ref> In November 1981, [[Sydney Pollack]] agreed to direct and produce the film at Columbia's suggestion.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dworkin|first=Susan|title=Making Tootsie: A Film Study with Dustin Hoffman and Sydney Pollack|year=2012|publisher=[[Newmarket Press]]|isbn=978-1557049667}}</ref>

Hoffman suggested that Pollack play Michael's agent George Fields, a role written for [[Dabney Coleman]]. Pollack resisted the idea, but Hoffman eventually convinced him; it was Pollack's first acting work in years.<ref name="NYT">"How Conflict Gave Shape to 'Tootsie'." ''New York Times.'' December 19, 1982. p. 1, 16.</ref> Pollack cast Coleman as the sexist, arrogant soap opera director Ron Carlisle.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://s.wsj.net/article/SB120191168810636715.html |title=Sketches of Sydney Pollack |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |first=Joe |last=Morgenstern |date=February 8, 2008 |access-date=February 15, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220020501/http://s.wsj.net/article/SB120191168810636715.html |archive-date=December 20, 2008}}</ref>

To prepare for his role, Hoffman watched the 1978 film ''[[La Cage aux Folles (film)|La Cage aux Folles]]'' several times.<ref>{{Cite news
| last = Beck
| first = Marilyn
| title = Marilyn Beck's Hollywood: Producers Finding Financing Rough
| newspaper = [[The Victoria Advocate]]
| location = Victoria, Texas
| page = 11D
| date = 1980-04-03
| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2yMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6955,608630&dq=adam+and+yves+danny-arnold&hl=en
| access-date = 2010-09-02}}</ref> He also visited the set of ''[[General Hospital]]'' for research and conducted extensive makeup tests. Hoffman has stated that he was shocked to learn that although makeup could be used to allow him to credibly appear as a woman, he would never be a beautiful one. His epiphany occurred when he realized that although he found Dorothy interesting, he would not have spoken to her at a party because she was not beautiful, and because of this, he had missed the opportunity for many conversations with interesting women. He concluded that he had never regarded ''Tootsie'' as a comedy.<ref>{{Cite AV media 
| title = Dustin Hoffman on TOOTSIE and his character Dorothy Michaels
| publisher = [[American Film Institute]]
| date = 2012-12-17
| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPAat-T1uhE
| access-date = 2022-02-10
| via = [[YouTube]]
}}</ref>

Scenes set at New York's [[Russian Tea Room]] were filmed in the actual restaurant, with additional scenes shot in [[Central Park]] and in front of [[Bloomingdale's]]. Scenes were also filmed in [[Hurley, New York]] and at the National Video Studios in New York.<ref name="Tea Room">[[Maslin, Janet]]. "'Tootsie': A Woman Who Is Dustin Hoffman." ''New York Times.'' July 13, 1982.</ref> Additional filming took place in [[Fort Lee, New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/24/nyregion/and-the-winner-is-new-jersey-as-a-location-for-top-films.html|title=And the Winner Is . . . New Jersey, as a Location for Top Films|first=Betsy|last=Anderson|work=The New York Times |date=24 March 1991|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>

==Reception==

===Box office===
''Tootsie'' opened in 943 theaters in the United States and Canada and grossed $5,540,470 during its opening weekend.<ref name=BOMojo/> After 115 days, it surpassed ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]'' as Columbia's greatest domestic hit of all time.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=April 13, 1983|page=3|title='Tootsie' Windfall}}</ref> Its final international gross in the United States and Canada was $177,200,000,<ref name=BOMojo/> making it the [[1982 in film|second-highest-grossing movie of 1982]] after ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]''. [[Box Office Mojo]] estimates that the film sold more than 56.9 million tickets in the U.S.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=May 31, 2016|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=tootsie.htm&adjust_yr=1&p=.htm|title=Tootsie (1982)|website=Box Office Mojo}}</ref>

The film grossed $63.8 million internationally<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|page=5|date=June 15, 1983|title='Tootsie,' 'Gandhi' Hit $120-Mil Abroad, Despite Hard Dollar Drag}}</ref> and was the highest-grossing film in Germany, with a gross of $19 million.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|page=28|date=October 11, 1999|title=Pollack: From 'Eyes' To 'Hearts'}}</ref> Worldwide, it grossed 241 million dollars.

===Critical response===
{{Rotten Tomatoes prose|91|7.8|53|consensus=''Tootsie'' doesn't squander its high-concept comedy premise, with fine dialogue and sympathetic treatment of the characters|access-date=September 21, 2023|ref=y}} {{Metacritic film prose|88|21|ref=yes|access-date=September 21, 2023}}

[[Roger Ebert]] praised the film, awarding it four out of four stars and observing: "''Tootsie'' is the kind of Movie with a capital M that they used to make in the 1940s, when they weren't afraid to mix up absurdity with seriousness, social comment with farce, and a little heartfelt tenderness right in there with the laughs. This movie gets you coming and going...The movie also manages to make some lighthearted but well-aimed observations about sexism. It also pokes satirical fun at soap operas, New York show business agents and the Manhattan social pecking order."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tootsie-1982 |title=Tootsie |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |author=Roger Ebert | author-link = Roger Ebert |date=December 17, 1982 |access-date=2007-12-22 }}</ref>

===Accolades===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| rowspan="10"| [[55th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]
| [[Sydney Pollack]] and [[Dick Richards]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="10"| <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1983 |title=The 55th Academy Awards (1983) Nominees and Winners |access-date=October 9, 2011 |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/55th-winners.html |archive-date=September 5, 2012}}</ref>
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Sydney Pollack
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| [[Dustin Hoffman]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
| [[Teri Garr]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Jessica Lange]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen]]
| [[Larry Gelbart]], [[Murray Schisgal]], and [[Don McGuire (actor)|Don McGuire]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
| [[Owen Roizman]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]
| [[Fredric Steinkamp]] and [[William Steinkamp]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song]]
| "[[It Might Be You]]" <br> Music by [[Dave Grusin]]; <br> Lyrics by [[Alan and Marilyn Bergman]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Sound|Best Sound]]
| [[Arthur Piantadosi]], [[Les Fresholtz]], <br> [[Dick Alexander]], and [[Les Lazarowitz]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[American Cinema Editors|American Cinema Editors Awards]]
| [[American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic|Best Edited Feature Film]]
| Fredric Steinkamp and William Steinkamp
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[Bambi Award]]s
| Best Film – International
| Jessica Lange {{small|(also for ''[[The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981 film)|The Postman Always Rings Twice]]'')}}
| {{won}}
| align="center"|
|-
| [[Bodil Awards]]
| [[Bodil Award for Best American Film|Best Non-European Film]]
| Sydney Pollack
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bodilprisen.dk/aar-for-aar/1983-2/ |title=The Bodil Prize 1983 |publisher=[[Bodil Awards]] |access-date=July 10, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1982|Boston Society of Film Critics Awards]]
| [[Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| Dustin Hoffman
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://bostonfilmcritics.org/past-winners-1980s/ |title=BSFC Winners: 1980s |date=27 July 2018 |publisher=[[Boston Society of Film Critics]] |access-date=July 10, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
| Jessica Lange
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="9"| [[37th British Academy Film Awards|British Academy Film Awards]]
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| Sydney Pollack and Dick Richards
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="9"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1984/film |title=BAFTA Awards: Film in 1984 |publisher=[[British Academy Film Awards]] |access-date=July 10, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Direction|Best Direction]]
| Sydney Pollack
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|Best Actor in a Leading Role]]
| Dustin Hoffman
| {{won}}{{efn|Tied with [[Michael Caine]] for ''[[Educating Rita (film)|Educating Rita]]''.}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best Actress in a Leading Role]]
| Jessica Lange
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role|Best Actress in a Supporting Role]]
| Teri Garr
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]]
| Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design]]
| [[Ruth Morley]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair|Best Make-Up Artist]]
| Dorothy Pearl, [[George Masters (make-up artist)|George Masters]], <br> C. Romaina Ford, and Allen Weisinger
| {{won}}
|-
| Best Original Song Written for a Film
| "It Might Be You" <br> Music by Dave Grusin; <br> Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[9th César Awards|César Awards]]
| [[César Award for Best Foreign Film|Best Foreign Film]]
| Sydney Pollack
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.academie-cinema.org/evenements/ceremonie-des-cesar-1984/ |title=The 1984 César Awards |publisher=[[César Awards]] |access-date=July 10, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[David di Donatello|David di Donatello Awards]]
| [[David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor|Best Foreign Actor]]
| Dustin Hoffman
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 
|-
| [[David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress|Best Foreign Actress]]
| Jessica Lange
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[35th Directors Guild of America Awards|Directors Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film|Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures]]
| Sydney Pollack
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1980s/1982.aspx?value=1982 |title=35th Annual DGA Awards |publisher=[[Directors Guild of America Awards]] |access-date=July 10, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="5"| [[40th Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="5"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/tootsie/ |title=Tootsie |publisher=[[Golden Globe Awards]] |access-date=July 10, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| Dustin Hoffman
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture]]
| Jessica Lange
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Director|Best Director – Motion Picture]]
| Sydney Pollack
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay – Motion Picture]]
| Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Goldene Leinwand|Golden Screen Awards]]
| colspan="2"| Golden Screen
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[26th Annual Grammy Awards|Grammy Awards]]
| [[Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition|Best Instrumental Composition]]
| "An Actor's Life" – Dave Grusin
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/awards/26th-annual-grammy-awards |title=26th Annual GRAMMY Awards |publisher=[[Grammy Awards]] |access-date=July 10, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media|Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special]]
| Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, and Dave Grusin
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Kansas City Film Critics Circle|Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards]]
| Best Supporting Actress
| Jessica Lange
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://kcfcc.org/kcfcc-award-winners-1980-89/ |title=KCFCC Award Winners – 1980-89 |date=14 December 2013 |publisher=[[Kansas City Film Critics Circle]] |access-date=July 10, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[Kinema Junpo|Kinema Junpo Awards]]
| Best Foreign Language Film
| Sydney Pollack
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[1982 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards]]
| [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
| Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lafca.net/Years/1982.php |title=The 8th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards |publisher=[[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]] |access-date=July 10, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[National Board of Review Awards 1982|National Board of Review Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Board of Review: Top Ten Films|Top Ten Films]]
| {{draw|8th Place}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1982/ |title=1982 Award Winners |publisher=[[National Board of Review]] |access-date=July 10, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[National Film Preservation Board]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Film Registry]]
| {{won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/ |title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=July 10, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="7"| [[1982 National Society of Film Critics Awards|National Society of Film Critics Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="7"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://nationalsocietyoffilmcritics.com/about-2/ |title=Past Awards |date=19 December 2009 |publisher=[[National Society of Film Critics]] |access-date=July 10, 2024}}</ref>
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| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Sydney Pollack
| {{draw|2nd Place}}
|-
| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| Dustin Hoffman
| {{won}}
|-
| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| Jessica Lange {{small|(also for ''[[Frances (film)|Frances]]'')}}
| {{draw|2nd Place}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
| Teri Garr
| {{draw|3rd Place}}
|-
| Jessica Lange
| {{won}}
|-
| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
| Murray Schisgal and Larry Gelbart
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="6"| [[1982 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|New York Film Critics Circle Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| {{Runner-up}}
| align="center" rowspan="6"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://mubi.com/awards-and-festivals/nyfccas?year=1982 |title=1982 New York Film Critics Circle Awards |publisher=[[Mubi (streaming service)|Mubi]] |access-date=July 10, 2024}}</ref>
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| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Sydney Pollack
| {{won}}
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| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| Dustin Hoffman
| {{Runner-up}}
|-
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| [[George Gaynes]]
| {{Runner-up}}
|-
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
| Jessica Lange
| {{won}}
|-
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
| Murray Schisgal and Larry Gelbart
| {{won}}
|-
| Online Film & Television Association Awards
| colspan="2"| Film Hall of Fame: Productions
| {{won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oftaawards.com/film-hall-of-fame/film-hall-of-fame-productions/ |title=Film Hall of Fame: Productions |publisher=Online Film & Television Association |access-date=July 10, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[35th Writers Guild of America Awards|Writers Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Comedy – Written Directly for the Screen]]
| Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |title=Awards Winners |publisher=[[Writers Guild of America Awards]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205095022/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |archive-date=December 5, 2012 |access-date=June 6, 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|}

In 2011, [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] aired a primetime special, ''Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time'', that counted down the best movies chosen by fans based on results of a poll conducted by both ABC and ''[[People (magazine)|People Weekly]] Magazine''. ''Tootsie'' was selected as the {{abbr|No.|Number}} 5 Best Comedy.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Best_Film/best-film-greatest-movies-time/story?id=13147020 |title=Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time |publisher=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |date=March 16, 2011}}</ref>

[[National Film Registry]] — Inducted in 1998.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/ |title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=February 27, 2020}}</ref>

The film is recognized by [[American Film Institute]] in these lists:
* 1998: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies]] – #62<ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/movies100.pdf |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |access-date=July 16, 2016}}</ref>
* 2000: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs]] – #2<ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/laughs100.pdf |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |access-date=July 16, 2016 |archive-date=June 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624052741/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/laughs100.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2007: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)]] – #69<ref>{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/100Movies.pdf |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |access-date=July 16, 2016}}</ref>

==Home media==
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The film was first released on [[Capacitance Electronic Disc|CED Videodisc]] in 1983, on [[VHS]] and [[Betamax]] videocassettes by [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment|RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video]] in 1985 and on [[DVD]] in 2001. These releases were distributed by [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment|Columbia TriStar Home Video]]. The film was also released by [[the Criterion Collection]] in a [[LaserDisc]] edition in 1992. A special 25th-anniversary edition DVD was released by [[Sony Pictures]] in 2008.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tootsie - 25th Anniversary Edition |url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/32213/tootsie-25th-anniversary-edition/ |date=5 February 2008 |website=[[DVD Talk]] |access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref> The film was released on [[Blu-ray|Blu-ray disc]] in 2013, but only for selected international territories such as Germany and Japan. The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD by the Criterion Collection on December 16, 2014.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tootsie (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] [2016] |website=Amazon UK |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tootsie-Criterion-Collection-Blu-ray-Hoffman/dp/B01B2LTMEA |access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref>

==Musical adaptation==
{{Main|Tootsie (musical)}}
A stage musical of the film premiered at the [[Cadillac Palace Theatre]] in Chicago from September 11 to October 14, 2018, before opening on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in the spring of 2019. The musical has music and lyrics by [[David Yazbek]]. Robert Horn wrote the book, Denis Jones choreographed and [[Scott Ellis]] directed. [[Santino Fontana]] starred as Michael Dorsey.<ref>McPhee, Ryan. [http://www.playbill.com/article/tootsie-musical-starring-santino-fontana-will-play-chicago-before-2019-broadway-premiere# " 'Tootsie' Musical, Starring Santino Fontana, Will Play Chicago Before 2019 Broadway Premiere"] Playbill, January 24, 2018</ref> He was joined by [[Lilli Cooper]] as Julie Nichols, [[Sarah Stiles]] as Sandy Lester, [[John Behlmann]] as Max Van Horn, Andy Grotelueschen as Jeff Slater, [[Julie Halston]] as Rita Mallory, [[Tony Awards|Tony Award]] winner [[Michael McGrath (actor)|Michael McGrath]] as Stan Fields and Tony nominee [[Reg Rogers]] as Ron Carlisle.

==See also==
* [[Cross-dressing in film and television]]
* [[List of highest-grossing films in Canada and the United States]]

== Notes ==
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==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/tootsie.pdf ''Tootsie'' essay] by Brian Scott Mednick at [[National Film Registry]]
* ''Tootsie'' essay by Daniel Eagan in ''[https://books.google.com/books/about/America_s_Film_Legacy.html?id=deq3xI8OmCkC America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry]'', A&C Black, 2010 {{ISBN|0826429777}}, pages 780–781
* [http://livingromcom.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/03/romantic-comedy.html The 25th Anniversary ''Tootsie''] by Billy Mernit
* [https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3404-tootsie-one-great-dame ''Tootsie: One Great Dame''] – an essay by [[Michael Sragow]] at [[The Criterion Collection]]

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