So far six Nobel Prize winners have been nominated for an Academy Award (Oscar). Recently, 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Kazuo Ishiguro was nominated for the 2023 Oscar for ‘Best Adapted Screenplay’ for the movie ‘Living’. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2017 for his contribution to literature.
Other Nobel Prize winners who have been nominated for an Academy Award (Oscar) include George Bernard Shaw, John Steinbeck, John-Paul Sartre, Harold Pinter and Bob Dylan.
Only George Bernard Shaw and Bob Dylan have won an Oscar. In 1939, Bernard Shaw won the Oscar for ‘Best Writing’ and the screenplay adaptation of his play Pygmalion. According to NobelPrize.org, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 for his play ‘Pygmalion’.
Bob Dylan won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 2001 for the song “Things Have Changed”. In 2016, Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘contributing poetry’ to the American music genre, making Dylan the first musician to win the Nobel Prize. But the BBC According to information, Bob Dylan accepted the Nobel Prize in Literature more than three months after the award ceremony.
According to IMDB data, 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner John Steinbeck received three Oscar nominations. Nominated for ‘Best Writing and Original Story’ in 1945 for ‘Lifeboat’, ‘Best Writing and Original Story’ for ‘A Medal for Benny’ in 1946 and ‘Viva Zapata!’ in 1953. He was nominated in the ‘Best Writing, Story and Screenplay’ category for the movie. He won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for his novel ‘The Grapes of Wrath’.
Also, in 1957, Jean-Paul Sartre was nominated for ‘Best Writing’ and ‘Motion Picture Story’ for the movie ‘The Proud and the Beautiful’. Sartre was offered the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, but declined it, according to NobelPrize.org.
Harold Pinter, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005 for his outstanding contribution to literature, received two Oscar nominations. According to IMDB, he received Oscar nominations for Best Screenplay and Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium for The French Lieutenant’s Wife in 1982 and Betrayal in 1984.
