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Scofield received the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for portraying Sir Thomas More in the Broadway production of A Man for All Seasons (1962). Four years later, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor when he reprised the role in the 1966 film adaptation , making him one of eleven to receive a Tony and Academy Award for the same role.
Jun 7, 2011 · In 2004 The Daily Telegraph published a survey in which RSC actors voted for the greatest Shakespeare performance in history. It wasn’t exactly a scientific poll, but the result was clear, and not unexpected. The winner was Paul Scofield in King Lear.
Mar 20, 2008 · Paul Scofield, one of Britain's most acclaimed Shakespearean actors and an Academy Award winner, has died at the age of 86, his agent has said. Scofield won the Oscar for best actor in 1967 for...
Mar 21, 2008 · Three decades after his Oscar win, Scofield received a supporting actor Oscar nomination for his role as Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Van Doren in director Robert Redford’s 1994 drama ...
May 6, 2020 · AFTERWORD In a unique 2004 poll of all of the distinguished actors of the RSC, Scofield’s performance as Lear was voted as being “the greatest ever performance in a Shakespeare play”. He originally played it at Stratford in 1962 for Peter Brook, from where it went on to tour the world.
Paul Scofield had his greatest success in the role of Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt’s play A Man for All Seasons, in which he appeared in London in 1960 and in New York City in 1961–62, winning the Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award (1962) and other honours.
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In 1972, the Hamburg-based Alfred Toepfer Foundation awarded Scofield its annual Shakespeare Prize. In 2002 he was awarded the honorary degree of D. Litt by the University of Oxford . [62]
