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Awards and Nominations
for Actors Playing
Latter-day Saint (Mormon/LDS) Characters

More details about these movies with Latter-day Saint characters can be found here.

Film TitleAwardAward
year		Categorywon
or
nom.		Actor (character)
Melvin and Howard (1980) Academy Awards 1981 Best Actress in a Supporting Role won Mary Steenburgen ("Lynda Dummar")
Golden Globes 1981 Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role won Mary Steenburgen ("Lynda Dummar")
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1981 Best Supporting Actress won Mary Steenburgen ("Lynda Dummar")
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1980 Best Supporting Actress won Mary Steenburgen ("Lynda Dummar")
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA 1981 Best Supporting Actress won Mary Steenburgen ("Lynda Dummar")
New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1980 Best Supporting Actress won Mary Steenburgen ("Lynda Dummar")
Golden Globes 1981 Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy nom Paul Le Mat ("Melvin Dummar")
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) BAFTA Awards 1971 Best Actor nom Paul Newman ("Butch Cassidy")
Laurel Awards 1970 Action Performance 3rd place Paul Newman ("Butch Cassidy")
Heavenly Creatures (1994) Empire Awards, UK 1996 Best British Actress won Kate Winslet ("Juliet Hulme")
London Critics Circle Film Awards 1996 British Actress of the Year won Kate Winslet ("Juliet Hulme")
New Zealand Film and TV Awards 1995 Best Foreign Performer won Kate Winslet ("Juliet Hulme")
Ocean's Eleven (2001) MTV Movie Awards 2002 Best On-Screen Team nom Casey Affleck ("Virgil Malloy"), Scott Caan ("Turk Malloy") [co-nominees: Don Cheadle, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Elliott Gould, Eddie Jemison, Bernie Mac, Brad Pitt, Shaobo Qin, Carl Reiner]
Online Film Critics Society Awards 2002 Best Ensemble nom Casey Affleck ("Virgil Malloy"), Scott Caan ("Turk Malloy")
Rain Man (1988) Academy Awards 1989 Best Actor in a Leading Role won Dustin Hoffman ("Raymond Babbitt")
BAFTA Awards 1990 Best Actor nom Dustin Hoffman ("Raymond Babbitt")
David di Donatello Awards 1989 Best Foreign Actor won Dustin Hoffman ("Raymond Babbitt")
Golden Globes 1990 Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama won Dustin Hoffman ("Raymond Babbitt")
Somewhere in Time (1980) Saturn Awards 1981 Best Actress nom Jane Seymour ("Elise McKenna")
Wonder Boys (2000) Online Film Critics Society Awards 2001 Online Film Critics Society Awards nom Katie Holmes ("Hannah Green")
Damnation Alley (1977) Saturn Awards 1978 Best Actor - Science Fiction nom Jan-Michael Vincent ("Tanner")
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) Golden Satellite Awards 2003 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Comedy or Musical nom Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Dean Trumbell")
The Last Dance (2000) Young Artist Awards 2001 Best Performance in a TV Movie (Comedy or Drama) - Young Actor Age Ten or Under nom Matt Weinberg ("Alex Cope")
Young Artist Awards 2001 Best Performance in a TV Movie (Comedy or Drama) - Young Actress Age Ten or Under nom Channing Carson ("Jill Cope")
The Executioner's Song (1982) Emmy Awards 2002 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special won Tommy Lee Jones ("Gary Gilmore")
Shot in the Heart (2001) AFI Awards 2002 AFI Actor of the Year - Male - Movie or Mini-Series nom Giovanni Ribisi ("Mikal Gilmore")
Angels in America (2003) Golden Globes 2004 Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television won Meryl Streep ("Hannah Pitt")
Emmy Awards 2004 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie won Meryl Streep ("Hannah Pitt")
Golden Satellite Awards 2004 Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television won Meryl Streep ("Hannah Pitt")
Screen Actors Guild Awards 2004 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries won Meryl Streep ("Hannah Pitt")
Golden Globes 2004 Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television won Mary-Louise Parker ("Harper Pitt")
Emmy Awards 2004 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie won Mary-Louise Parker ("Harper Pitt")
Golden Satellite Awards 2004 Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television nom Mary-Louise Parker ("Harper Pitt")
Screen Actors Guild Awards 2004 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries nom Mary-Louise Parker ("Harper Pitt")
Golden Globes 2004 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television nom Patrick Wilson ("Joe Pitt")
Emmy Awards 2004 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie nom Patrick Wilson ("Joe Pitt")
Golden Satellite Awards 2004 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television nom Patrick Wilson ("Joe Pitt")



The following characters from the list above are based on real-life, historical Latter-day Saints/Mormons:
- Lynda Dummar (played by Mary Steenburgen)
- Melvin Dummar (played by Paul Le Mat)
- Butch Cassidy (played by Paul Newman)
- Juliet Hulme (played by Kate Winslet)
- Gary Gilmore (played by Tommy Lee Jones)
- Mikal Gilmore (played by Giovanni Ribisi)
- Raymond Babbitt (played by Dustin Hoffman; The character (but not the film's events) was based on Kim Peek, the real-life autistic savant Latter-day Saint)


Also of note:
- Lee Marvin was nominated for a Golden Globe in the Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy category for his role in "Paint Your Wagon" (1969). Marvin's character was a prospector who married a Latter-day Saint woman (lead actress Jean Seberg), but his character was not LDS.
- Actress Marisol Nichols received an ALMA Award (American Latino Media Arts Awards) nomination in the Outstanding Actor/Actress in a Made for Television Movie or Miniseries category for her portrayal of Meriam Al-Khalifa, a real-life Muslim princess who married a Latter-day Saint marine in the NBC TV movie "The Princess and the Marine" (2001).

Additional Notes About Award-Winning and Award-Nominated Latter-day Saint Roles:
- The events portrayed in "Heavenly Creatures" take place while Juliet Hulme was a teenager, before she was baptized and became a devout Latter-day Saint (and best-selling novelist) as an adult.
- Although he was a Latter-day Saint, Butch Cassidy was not an active churchgoer during his adulthood, which is the time period portrayed in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."
- It is not entirely clear whether or not "Dean Trumbell" (Philip Seymour Hoffman's character in "Punch-Drunk Love") is a Latter-day Saint. The character lives in Provo, Utah, where over 90% of the population is LDS, and the Trumbell's employees (the Stevens brothers and their sister) have been explicitly identified as Mormons by the director. But the religious affiliation of Trumbell himself is uncertain.
- In the original novel by Roger Zelazny, a number of clues indicate that the main character "Tanner" is intended by the writer to be an ethnic Mormon. In a major scene in the novel, Tanner actually visits Latter-day Saints in Utah, including the President of the Church. Nothing in the movie version identifies Tanner as a Latter-day Saint.

Additional Notes:
- The Saturn Awards are awarded by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.

Web page created 19 December 2003. Last modified 5 March 2005.