Band of Susans

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Biography

Favoring chaotic squalls of guitar sound and avant textures on the dynamics of conventional songcraft, the brand new York-based Music group of Susans produced in 1986 throughout the primary duo of singers/songwriters Robert Poss and Susan Stenger, longtime friends who reunited only after seeking dramatically different music pathways: while Poss became a fixture in the N.Con.C. punk picture within the Clash-inspired Tot Rocket before joing Rhys Chatham’s electric guitar ensemble, Stenger relocated to Prague, where she examined the theories of John Cage. Originally, Music group of Susans presented Poss on business lead acoustic guitar and Stenger on bass, curved out by guitarists Susan Tallman and Susan Lyall (therefore the outfit’s name) and drummer Ron Spitzer; four weeks after developing, they released their debut EP, Blessing and Curse. In 1988, Music group of Susans released their first full-length recording, Hope Against Wish; both Tallman and Lyall departed immediately after, and had been replaced by Web page Hamilton (a previous college student of Glenn Branca, a regular Susans reference stage) and Karen Haglof. After 1989’s Like Agenda, Hamilton as well remaining the group to discovered Helmet; he was changed by Tag Lonergan, and pursuing Haglof’s leave, Anne Husick stepped set for 1991’s THE TERM as well as the Flesh, which used a more concentrated attack, typified by way of a lesser focus on reverb and opinions, to reach at a far more available sound. Minus the typical attendant line-up adjustments, Music group of Susans released 1993’s dense, droning Veil, adopted two years later on by Here Shows up Achievement, a uniformly solid assortment of lengthy items like the instrumental “In the attention from the Beholder (Track for Rhys),” a tribute to Poss’ coach. In middle-1996, Music group of Susans dissolved, although Stenger and Poss continuing dealing with Wire’s Bruce Gilbert within the trio GilbertPossStenger furthermore to mounting additional projects.

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Full Name Band of Susans

IMDB http://imdb.com/name/nm0000215

Allmusic http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000138446

Music Songs Paint It Black, Now Is Now, It's Locked Away, The Pursuit of Happiness, Hard Light, Which Dream Came True, The Last Temptation of Susan, Child of the Moon, Birthmark, Elizabeth Stride, Guitar Trio, Pardon My French, Throne of Blood, I Found That Essence Rare, Trouble Follows, Sin Embargo, You Were an Optimist, Trollbinders Theme, Following My Heart, Mood Swing, Thorn in My Side, Tourniquet, Elliot Abrams in Hell, The Red and the Black, Learning to Sin, Plot Twist, No God, Hope Against Hope, Hell Bent, Ready to Bend, Estranged Labor, Where Have All the Flowers Gone

Albums Blessing and Curse, Hope Against Hope, Love Agenda, The Word and the Flesh, The Peel Sessions, Veil, Here Comes Success, Now, Wired for Sound

#	Fact
1	Endorsed Jill Stein as her "vote of conscience" in the 2016 presidential election of the United States.
2	Self-confessed cannabis user and admitted on Watch What Happens: Live (2009) in 2013 that she's been stoned at almost all award shows except the Oscars.
3	Almost signed on to star in Serial Mom (1994) but the deal fell through due to scheduling conflicts and a salary dispute.
4	After college Sarandon was affiliated with the Hanover Modeling School in New Haven, Connecticut and reigned as Miss Auto Show 1969 under the sponsorship of the Greater New Haven Car Dealers Association.
5	Was arrested in 1982 on charges of civil disobedience in New York City for protesting the tearing down of the Morosco Theater on Broadway.
6	Marched in a pro-choice demonstration on the National Wall in Washington D.C. while eight months pregnant in 1989.
7	Is the only actress who has been directed by both the Scott brothers (Ridley Scott and Tony Scott).
8	Mother-in-law of Kyle Martino.
9	Said her most grueling audition process was for the female lead in the Marlon Brando/Jack Nicholson vehicle The Missouri Breaks (1976), because she was repeatedly called back in for readings over a period of six weeks but ultimately lost out to "a gal who didn't do much after that" (Kathleen Lloyd).
10	Caused a furor in 1984 when she defied Ronald Reagan's opposition to the Sandinista government by taking an eight-day trip to Nicaragua, delivering milk and baby food to needy mothers under the auspices of a New York-based women's group called MADRE.
11	Fans often confuse Susan with Sigourney Weaver and vice versa.
12	Her hair was naturally blonde in childhood.
13	Previously linked romantically with filmmaker Louis Malle, musician David Bowie and actor Sean Penn.
14	Was set to play Alexandra in The Witches of Eastwick (1987) until Cher was recast in the role at the last minute. It was only after arriving on location in Massachusetts that Sarandon was told she was going to play Jane instead (and needed to learn how to play the cello), an experience she described as humiliating.
15	Once declared Bull Durham (1988) as her favorite movie from her own career.
16	Cleaned apartments for a living before she became an actress.
17	Physicians told her she had endometriosis and that she would need to be operated on if she wanted to have children, so she was astonished when she learned she was pregnant for the first time at 37. She said on Chelsea Lately (2007) in 2014 that she hadn't used birth control for years, and that the boyfriend she conceived with (Franco Amurri) "won the lottery".
18	Is one of 22 Oscar-winning actresses to have been born in the state of New York. The others are Alice Brady, Teresa Wright, Anne Revere, Celeste Holm, Claire Trevor, Judy Holliday, Shirley Booth, Susan Hayward, Patty Duke, Anne Bancroft, Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, Lee Grant, Beatrice Straight, Whoopi Goldberg, Mercedes Ruehl, Marisa Tomei, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Connelly, Melissa Leo and Anne Hathaway.
19	She won an Oscar for playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995), making her one of 17 actors to win the Award for playing a real person who was still alive at the evening of the Award ceremony (as of 2015). The other sixteen actors and their respective performances are: Spencer Tracy for playing Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town (1938), Gary Cooper for playing Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941), Patty Duke for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), Jason Robards for playing Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men (1976), Robert De Niro for playing Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980), Sissy Spacek for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Jeremy Irons for playing Claus Von Bullow in Reversal of Fortune (1990), Geoffrey Rush for playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996), Julia Roberts for playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000), Jim Broadbent for playing John Bayley in Iris (2001), Helen Mirren for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), Sandra Bullock for playing Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009), Melissa Leo for playing Alice Eklund-Ward in The Fighter (2010), Christian Bale for playing Dickie Eklund in The Fighter (2010), Meryl Streep for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) and Eddie Redmayne for playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014).
20	Supporter of Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign. [2016]
21	Callie Khouri wrote the role of Louise Elizabeth Sawyer in Thelma & Louise (1991) with Sarandon as her first and only choice.
22	Is a grandmother, via daughter Eva Amurri Martino and her husband Kyle Martino, of granddaughter Marlowe (b. August 9, 2014) and grandson Major (b. October 19, 2016).
23	Was the 109th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Dead Man Walking (1995) at The 68th Annual Academy Awards (1996) on March 25, 1996.
24	An ardent supporter of liberal or progressive causes, she - along with other stars such as Harry Belafonte - very publicly campaigned for Democrat Bill de Blasio as the next Mayor of New York City.
25	She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
26	Friends with Don Johnson since Sweet Hearts Dance (1988).
27	Following split with Robbins, was in a long-term relationship with Jonathan Bricklin (2010-2015).
28	In 2011, she bought a penthouse "bachelorette" pad atop townhouse on West 9th Street, Manhattan, just blocks from the West 15th Street duplex she had shared for many years with Tim Robbins.
29	Along with Gerard Butler, Demi Moore, Ben Stiller and director Paul Haggis, she visited a camp for internally displaced persons managed by Sean Penn and his "Jenkins-Penn Humanitarian Relief Organization" in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. [April 2010]
30	Revealed in December 2009 that she and partner Tim Robbins had broken up during the summer of that year.
31	Received the "Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award" in 2009.
32	Born at 2:25 PM (EST).
33	Inducted into the 2010 New Jersey Hall of Fame for her services and contributions to Arts and Entertainment.
34	Launched a table tennis bar called "Spin New York" in June 2009.
35	In 2005, she and the rest of the chief creative team behind the 11-part radio documentary, "Leonard Bernstein: An American Life", a chronicle of the legendary American musical giant's life and career, were recipients of the (George Foster) Peabody Award bestowed by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia at the 64th presentation of the honor. The Peabody is the premiere international prize given for electronic (i.e. television and radio) media.
36	Received a 1979 Drama Desk Award nomination for "Best Actress in a Play" for her off-Broadway debut, opposite Eileen Brennan, in playwright John Ford Noonan's two-character piece, "A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking".
37	Received a 1982 Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as a victimized woman who rallies and turns the tables on her would-be attacker in the hit Off-Broadway play "Extremities", by playwright William Mastrosimone.
38	In 1991 and 1992, she was the New York Film Critics Circle's runner-up pick for their annual best actress of the year prize. In 1991, she was chosen the runner-up for her landmark performance as half of the now-iconic duo in director Ridley Scott's modern-day western, Thelma & Louise (1991). In 1992, she was the group's runner-up for her heartbreaking turn in director George Miller's fact-based drama, Lorenzo's Oil (1992).
39	In 1992, the National Society of Film Critics named her as their runner-up for best actress for her performance in Lorenzo's Oil (1992).
40	Has a dog named Penny, a Pomeranian Maltese. The dog appears in the movie, Bernard and Doris (2006), playing a pet of Doris, the character she portrayed.
41	Was listed as a potential nominee on the 2008 Razzie Award nominating ballot. She was suggested in the Worst Supporting Actress category for her performance in the film Mr. Woodcock (2007). However, she failed to receive a nomination.
42	Very good friends with fellow actress Julia Roberts.
43	Received the "World Lifetime Achievement Award" at the 2006 Women's World Award in New York.
44	In 1916, her grandfather Giuseppe/Joseph Vincent Criscione emigrated to the United States from Ragusa, Sicily, where he was born in 1901. Today, Susan is an honorary citizen of Ragusa and the city gave her the "Ragusani nel Mondo" award. Susan's maternal grandmother, Anita Evelyn Rigali, was the daughter of immigrants from Coreglia, Province of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.
45	Eldest of nine children. She has four brothers (Phillip Jr., Terry, Tim, O'Brian) and four sisters (Meredith, Bonnie, Amanda, Missy).
46	Parents separated in 1982, after 40 years of marriage.
47	Her grandmother had her mother when she was 13 years old. Her mother grew up in the care of nuns in an institute, abandoned at two.
48	One of eight women, also among them Sophia Loren and author Isabel Allende, carrying the Olympic flag at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games' opening ceremony in Turin. [February 2006]
49	Caught pneumonia after they shot the pool scene in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).
50	Is listed along with Geena Davis on the 24th place in AFI's Hero Top 50.
51	Is one of two actresses who won an Oscar for playing a nun. The first was Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette (1943).
52	For the past ten years, she has been involved with Heifer International, an organization that donates farm animals to needy families who need the animals for work.
53	Was involved in the effort to have Laura Schlessinger's television show taken off the air in 2000, because of her disagreement with Schlessinger's conservative views. The effort was successful in leading many sponsors to drop their support of the show, which was ultimately cancelled less than a year after its premiere.
54	Sang in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975); recorded a duet with Eddie Vedder which played over the end credits of Cradle Will Rock (1999).
55	She keeps her Oscar in the bathroom.
56	Graduated from Edison High School in Edison, New Jersey where she was a cheerleader.
57	Her father, Philip Leslie Tomalin, was of English, German, Irish and Welsh ancestry. Her mother, Lenora Marie Criscione, was born to an Italian family (from Ragusa, Sicily and Coreglia, Tuscany).
58	Was arrested for disorderly conduct during a protest in New York over the unarmed shooting of African immigrant Amadou Diallo by four policemen. [March 1999]
59	Supported Ralph Nader during his 2000 Presidential Election campaign.
60	Is a UNICEF goodwill ambassador.
61	As co-presenters of the Academy Awards in 1993, Susan and her former partner, Tim Robbins, seized a chance to bring public attention to the plight of a few hundred Haitians with AIDS who had been interned in Guantanamo Bay.
62	Landed her first Hollywood role when her then-husband, Chris Sarandon, took her along on one of his auditions.
63	Chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful in the world. [1996]
64	Has two sons with Tim Robbins: Jack Henry Robbins (b. May 15, 1989) and Miles Robbins (b. May 4, 1992).
65	Has a daughter from relationship with Franco Amurri: Eva Amurri Martino (b. March 15, 1985).
66	Former Ford model.
67	Attended Catholic University of America Drama School, 1964-1968. Met and married Chris Sarandon there (by priest who was head of Department).
68	Ranked #35 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
69	Lived with Tim Robbins from 1988 to 2009. They have two children together.

Actress

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan	2018	filming	Grace Donovan
A Bad Mom's Christmas	2017	filming
Going Places	2017	post-production
Butterfly in the Typewriter		pre-production	Thelma Toole
Slipping Away		Short pre-production	Dr. Sylvia Mansfield
Feud	2017	TV Series	Bette Davis
American Dad!	2016	TV Series	Mrs. Jasperterian
Skylanders Academy	2016	TV Series	Golden Queen
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea	2016		Lunch Lady Lorraine (voice)
Ace the Case	2016		Detective Dottie Wheel
Mothers and Daughters	2016		Millie
Spark: A Space Tail	2016		Bananny (voice)
Zoolander 2	2016		Susan Sarandon (uncredited)
Cassius and Clay	2016	TV Movie voice
The Crossing	2015/V	Short	Host
The Other Side of the Lake the Purple Girl: Episode IV-The New Visitor	2015		Susan Sarandon
Hell and Back	2015		Barb the Angel (voice)
The Meddler	2015		Marnie
3 Generations	2015		Dolly
Avril et le monde truqué	2015		Chimène (English version, voice)
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe	2015	TV Mini-Series	Gladys Mortenson
The Calling	2014		Hazel Micallef
Tammy	2014		Pearl
Mike & Molly	2013-2014	TV Series	J.C. Small
Ping Pong Summer	2014		Randi Jammer
Doll & Em	2013	TV Series	Susan Sarandon
The Last of Robin Hood	2013		Florence Aadland
Irwin & Fran	2013		Narrator
The Big Wedding	2013		Bebe
Snitch	2013/I		Joanne Keeghan
Dishonored	2012	Video Game	Granny Rags (voice)
Cloud Atlas	2012		Madame Horrox / Older Ursula / Yusouf Suleiman / ...
The Company You Keep	2012		Sharon Solarz
That's My Boy	2012		Mary McGarricle (Present Day)
The Big C	2012	TV Series	Joy Kleinman
30 Rock	2011-2012	TV Series	Lynn Onkman
Arbitrage	2012		Ellen Miller
Robot & Frank	2012		Jennifer
The Miraculous Year	2011	TV Movie	Patty Atwood
Jeff, Who Lives at Home	2011		Sharon
Saturday Night Live	2009-2011	TV Series	Mother
The Lonely Island Feat. Lady Gaga & Justin Timberlake: 3-Way (The Golden Rule)	2011	Video short
Fight for Your Right Revisited	2011	Short	Mother
La Mama: An American Nun's Life in a Mexican Prison	2010	Video short	Narrator
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps	2010		Jake's Mother
Peacock	2010		Fanny Crill
You Don't Know Jack	2010	TV Movie	Janet Good
The Lovely Bones	2009		Grandma Lynn
One Million Strong	2009	Short voice
Leaves of Grass	2009		Daisy
Solitary Man	2009		Nancy Kalmen
ER	2009	TV Series	Nora
The Greatest	2009		Grace Brewer
The Lonely Island: Motherlover	2009	Video short	Mother
Middle of Nowhere	2008		Rhonda Berry
Speed Racer	2008		Mom
Enchanted	2007		Queen Narissa
Emotional Arithmetic	2007		Melanie Winters
Mr. Woodcock	2007		Beverly Farley
In the Valley of Elah	2007		Joan Deerfield
Rescue Me	2006-2007	TV Series	Alicia Green
Bernard and Doris	2006		Doris Duke
Irresistible	2006		Sophie
Sonnet 22	2005	Short	Narrator
Romance & Cigarettes	2005		Kitty Kane
Elizabethtown	2005		Hollie Baylor
The Exonerated	2005	TV Movie	Sunny Jacobs
Alfie	2004		Liz
Shall We Dance	2004		Beverly Clark
Noel	2004		Rose Collins
Ice Bound	2003	TV Movie	Dr. Jerri Nielsen
Children of Dune	2003	TV Mini-Series	Princess Wensicia Corrino
Freedom: A History of Us	2003	TV Series documentary	Susan B. Anthony / Mary Hagidorn
Little Miss Spider	2002	Short	Narrator
Moonlight Mile	2002		Jojo Floss
The Banger Sisters	2002		Lavinia Kingsley
Igby Goes Down	2002		Mimi Slocumb
Malcolm in the Middle	2002	TV Series	Meg
Cats & Dogs	2001		Ivy (voice)
Friends	2001	TV Series	Jessica Lockhart
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie	2000		Coco LaBouche (voice)
Joe Gould's Secret	2000		Alice Neel
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales	1999	TV Movie	Narrator (voice)
Our Friend, Martin	1999	Video	Mrs. Clark (voice)
Anywhere But Here	1999		Adele August
Cradle Will Rock	1999		Margherita Sarfatti
Earthly Possessions	1999	TV Movie	Charlotte Emory
Stepmom	1998		Jackie Harrison
For Love of Julian	1998		Narrator (voice)
Illuminata	1998		Celimene
Twilight	1998		Catherine Ames
The Need to Know	1997		Narrator (voice)
James and the Giant Peach	1996		Spider (voice)
Dead Man Walking	1995		Sister Helen Prejean
The Simpsons	1995	TV Series	Ballet Teacher
School of the Americas Assassins	1994	Short	Narrator (voice)
Safe Passage	1994		Mag
Little Women	1994		Mrs. March
The Client	1994		Reggie Love
Lorenzo's Oil	1992		Michaela Odone
Bob Roberts	1992		Tawna Titan
The Player	1992		Susan Sarandon
Light Sleeper	1992		Ann
Thelma & Louise	1991		Louise
White Palace	1990		Nora Baker
A Dry White Season	1989		Melanie Bruwer
The January Man	1989		Christine Starkey
Sweet Hearts Dance	1988		Sandra Boon
Bull Durham	1988		Annie Savoy
The Witches of Eastwick	1987		Jane Spofford
Women of Valor	1986	TV Movie	Col. Margaret Ann Jessup
Mussolini and I	1985	TV Series	Edda Mussolini Ciano
Compromising Positions	1985		Judith Singer
A.D.	1985	TV Mini-Series	Livilla
Oxbridge Blues	1984	TV Series	Natalie Carlsen
Faerie Tale Theatre	1984	TV Series	Beauty
The Buddy System	1984		Emily
The Hunger	1983		Sarah Roberts
Tempest	1982		Aretha Tomalin
American Playhouse	1982	TV Series	Helene Shaw
Loving Couples	1980		Stephanie Beck
Atlantic City	1980		Sally
Something Short of Paradise	1979		Madeline Ross
King of the Gypsies	1978		Rose
Pretty Baby	1978		Hattie
The Other Side of Midnight	1977		Catherine Alexander Douglas
Checkered Flag or Crash	1977		C.C. Wainwright
The Last of the Cowboys	1977		Ginny
Dragonfly	1976		Chloe
The Rocky Horror Picture Show	1975		Janet Weiss - A Heroine
The Great Waldo Pepper	1975		Mary Beth
The Front Page	1974		Peggy Grant
The Whirlwind	1974	TV Movie
Lovin' Molly	1974		Sarah Peters
Great Performances	1972-1974	TV Series	Eileen / Patsy Johnson
The Wide World of Mystery	1973-1974	TV Series	Kate
F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles'	1974	TV Movie	Ailie Calhoun
Calucci's Department	1973	TV Series	Samantha
Lady Liberty	1971		Sally
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law	1971	TV Series	Joyce
Fleur bleue	1971		Elizabeth Hawkins
A World Apart	1971	TV Series	Patrice Kahlman
Joe	1970		Melissa Compton
Search for Tomorrow	1951	TV Series	Sarah Fairbanks (1972)

Producer

Title	Year	Status
Soufra	2017	Documentary executive producer post-production
The Survivor's Guide to Prison	2017	Documentary producer post-production
A Moving Feast	2016	Documentary executive producer completed
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story	2017	Documentary executive producer
Feud	2017	TV Series producer - 8 episodes
The Meddler	2015	executive producer
Deep Run	2015	Documentary executive producer
Radical Grace	2015	Documentary executive producer
Silenced	2014/I	Documentary executive producer
Storied Streets	2014	Documentary executive producer
Waiting for Mamu	2013	Documentary short executive producer
Moonlight Mile	2002	executive producer
Stepmom	1998	executive producer
The Last of the Cowboys	1977	co-producer

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status
Feud	2017	TV Series performer - 2 episodes
Hell and Back	2015	performer: "Meant To Be"
The Perks of Being a Wallflower	2012	performer: "Toucha Toucha Touch Me"
Atop the Fourth Wall	2011	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Bernard and Doris	2006	performer: "All I Need Is You", "I Love the Way You're Breaking My Heart"
Romance & Cigarettes	2005	performer: "Piece of My Heart", "Prisoner of Love", "The Girl That I Marry"
Cold Case	2005	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie	2000	performer: "Reptar I Love You"
Cradle Will Rock	1999	performer: "Croon Spoon"
Unter uns	1999	TV Series performer - 1 episode
James and the Giant Peach	1996	performer: "That's The Life", "Family", "Eating The Peach"
Dead Man Walking	1995	performer: "Be Not Afraid"
The Witches of Eastwick	1987	performer: "Someone To Watch Over Me", "Cello Concerto in B minor Allegro"
The Rocky Horror Picture Show	1975	performer: "Dammit Janet", "Over At The Frankenstein Place", "I Can Make You a Man Reprise", "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me", "Eddie", "Planet, Schmanet, Janet", "Rose Tint My World", "Fanfare/Don't Dream It", "Super Heroes" - uncredited
The Front Page	1974	performer: "Button Up Your Overcoat"

Miscellaneous

Title	Year	Status	Character
Death Row Stories	2014	TV Series documentary narrator - 8 episodes

Thanks

Title	Year	Status
Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle	2012	Documentary special thanks: funding
One Million Strong	2009	Short very special thanks
Danger Zone: The Making of 'Top Gun'	2004	Video documentary additional thanks
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood	2004	special thanks
The Guys	2002	special thanks
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen	2002	TV Short documentary special thanks
Last Party 2000	2001	Documentary special thanks
And Then One Night: The Making of 'Dead Man Walking'	2001	TV Movie documentary special thanks
The War Room	1993	Documentary special thanks

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Trailblazers in Habits	2013	Documentary	Narrator (voice)
Entertainers with Byron Allen	2013	TV Series documentary	Herself - Guest
Vivir de cine	2013	TV Series	Herself
Project Runway	2013	TV Series	Herself - Guest Judge
The Chew	2013	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Oprah and Rainn Wilson Present SoulPancake	2012	TV Special	Herself
The 6th Annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute	2012	TV Movie	Herself - Presenter
Katie	2012	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation	2012	Documentary	Suze Rotolo (voice)
Cinema 3	2006-2012	TV Series	Herself - Interviewee
Ceremonia de inauguración - 60 Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián	2012	TV Special	Herself
Louie	2012	TV Series	Herself
CBS This Morning	2012	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Charlie Rose	1995-2012	TV Series	Herself - Guest
How to Make Money Selling Drugs	2012	Documentary	Herself
ES.TV HD	2012	TV Series	Herself - Guest
NBC Sports Network Fight Night	2012	TV Series	Herself - Audience Member
White Man's D!#K with Susan Sarandon	2012	Short	Herself
IC Places Hollywood	2012	TV Series	Herself - Interviewee
1st Look	2012	TV Series	Herself - Interviewee
Screen Junkies MashUps	2012	TV Series	Herself
Up Close with Carrie Keagan	2007-2012	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Nothing Like Chocolate	2012	Documentary	Herself (voice)
The Hour	2011	TV Series	Herself
Hamish & Andy's Gap Year	2011	TV Series	Herself
After the Harvest: Fighting Hunger in the Coffeelands	2011	Documentary voice
A Question of Habit	2011	Documentary	Narrator
The Oprah Winfrey Show	2002-2011	TV Series	Herself - Guest
17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards	2011	TV Special	Herself
Fast Boy	2010	Documentary voice
See Me	2010	Documentary short	Narrator (voice)
IMDb's 20th Anniversary Star of the Day	2010	TV Series documentary	Herself
The 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards	2010	TV Special	Herself - Nominated: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
Who Do You Think You Are?	2010	TV Series documentary	Herself
Live from Studio Five	2010	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Xposé	2009-2010	TV Series	Herself
For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots	2010	TV Movie documentary voice
15th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards	2010	TV Special	Herself
Rachael Ray	2006-2009	TV Series	Herself - Guest
The Jay Leno Show	2009	TV Series	Herself - Guest
The Paul O'Grady Show	2009	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Stockholms 20th International Film Festival	2009	TV Special	Herself
The 63rd Annual Tony Awards	2009	TV Special	Herself - Presenter
PoliWood	2009	Documentary	Herself
20 to 1	2009	TV Series documentary	Herself
15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards	2009	TV Special	Herself - Nominee & Presenter
The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards	2009	TV Special	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television & Presenter: Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Caia Quem Caia	2008	TV Series	Herself
The Second Abu Dhabi Film Festival Awards	2008	TV Special	Herself
This Child of Mine	2008	Documentary	Narrator (voice)
The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards	2008	TV Special	Herself - Nominee
Hollywood contra Franco	2008	Documentary	Herself
AFI's 10 Top 10: America's 10 Greatest Films in 10 Classic Genres	2008	TV Movie	Herself
Getaway	2008	TV Series	Herself - Celebrity traveller
The Graham Norton Show	2008	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert for Autism Education	2008	TV Movie	Herself
Classical Baby (I'm Grown Up Now): The Poetry Show	2008	TV Movie	Herself
Becoming Enchanted: A New Classic Comes True	2008	Video documentary short	Herself
Ein Artikel zu viel	2008	Documentary	Narrator (English version, voice)
In the Valley of Elah: Documentary	2008	Video documentary	Herself
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies	2008	Documentary	Herself
Cartelera	2008	TV Series	Herself - Interviewee
Speechless	2008	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Phys Ed Trauma Tales	2008	Video documentary short	Herself
Pick Up the Pace: Making 'Mr. Woodcock'	2008	Video documentary short	Herself
Enchanted: CiTV Movie Special	2007	TV Movie	Herself
Access Hollywood	2007	TV Series	Herself
On the Line	2007	Documentary	Herself
Prometheus Bound: The Epidemic of Hepatitis C	2007	Documentary	Narrator
MADtv	2000-2007	TV Series	Herself / Herself - Host / Herself - Special Guest
The Colbert Report	2007	TV Series	Herself - Guest
The Dame Edna Treatment	2007	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Corazón de...	2005-2007	TV Series	Herself
Miradas 2	2007	TV Series documentary	Herself
L'hebdo cinéma	2006	TV Series documentary	Herself
The Bigger Picture	2006	TV Series	Herself
Home	2006/III	Documentary	Herself
2006 Women's World Awards	2006	TV Special	Herself
Secrets of the Code	2006	Documentary	Narrator
HARDtalk Extra	2006	TV Series	Herself
Movie Rush	2006	TV Series documentary	Herself
Chappelle's Show	2006	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story	2006	TV Movie documentary	Narrator (voice)
Tribeca Film Festival Presents: Live from the Red Carpet	2006	TV Special	Herself
Jonathan Dimbleby	2006	TV Series	Herself
Lockdown, USA	2006	Documentary	Herself
Independent Lens	2005-2006	TV Series documentary	Herself
The Simpsons	2006	TV Series	Herself
Turin 2006: XX Olympic Winter Games	2006	TV Mini-Series	Herself
Christa McAuliffe: Reach for the Stars	2006	TV Movie documentary	Narrator
An Empty Place at the Table	2005	Documentary short	Narrator
Film '72	2004-2005	TV Series	Herself
Greatest Ever Screen Chases	2005	TV Movie documentary	Herself
The Reichen Show	2005	TV Series	Herself
The Tony Danza Show	2004-2005	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show	2004-2005	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Parkinson	2005	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Parla con me	2005	TV Series	Herself
Paula Goes to Hollywood	2005	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Handmade Modern	2005	TV Series documentary	Herself
The Peace! DVD	2005	Video documentary	Herself
Hi-Jinks	2005	TV Series	Herself
Hiroshima no pika	2005	Video short	Herself
The Footy Show	2005	TV Series	Herself - Guest
GMTV	2005	TV Series	Herself
The Heaven and Earth Show	2005	TV Series	Herself - Guest
In the Life	2005	TV Series documentary	Herself
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn	2002-2004	TV Series	Herself - Guest Host / Herself - Guest
The Jane Pauley Show	2004	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Fahrenheit 9/11: A Movement in Time	2004	TV Movie documentary	Herself
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	1993-2004	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Biography	2003-2004	TV Series documentary	Herself
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood	2004		Herself
Troy: The Passion of Helen	2004	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Hollywood Greats	2002-2004	TV Series documentary	Herself
The 76th Annual Academy Awards	2004	TV Special	Herself - Co-Presenter: Best Original Screenplay
Fragile Hopes from the Killing Fields	2004	Documentary short	Narrator (voice)
The 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards	2004	TV Special	Herself - Presenter
Journey of the Heart: Henri Nouwen	2004	Video documentary	Narrator
The 100 Greatest Musicals	2003	TV Movie documentary	Herself
100 Greatest Sexy Moments	2003	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Ruby Wax with...	2003	TV Series documentary	Herself - Guest
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains	2003	TV Special documentary	Herself
The 100 Greatest Movie Stars	2003	TV Movie documentary	Herself
On the Record with Bob Costas	2003	TV Series	Herself - Guest
V Graham Norton	2003	TV Series	Herself - Guest
The Nazi Officer's Wife	2003	Documentary	Narrator (voice)
The 75th Annual Academy Awards	2003	TV Special	Herself - Presenter: Memorial Segment & Past Winner
75 Years of the Academy Awards: An Unofficial History	2003	TV Special documentary	Herself - Interviewee
Burma: Anatomy of Terror	2003	Documentary	Narrator (voice)
Igby Goes Down: In Search of Igby	2003	Video documentary short	Herself
Richard & Judy	2003	TV Series	Herself - Guest
American Masters	2003	TV Series documentary	Herself
The 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards	2003	TV Special	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
What's Going On?	2003	TV Series documentary
XXI Century	2003	TV Series documentary	Herself - Actor
Late Night with Conan O'Brien	1999-2002	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Revealed with Jules Asner	2002	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion	2002	Documentary	Tibetan Voiceovers (voice)
HBO First Look	2001-2002	TV Series documentary short	Herself
The Teen Choice Awards 2002	2002	TV Special	Herself - Presenter
The Rosie O'Donnell Show	1997-2002	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey	2002	Video documentary	Herself
The Next Industrial Revolution	2002	Documentary	Narrator
Bravo Profiles	2002	TV Series documentary	Herself
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen	2002	TV Short documentary	Herself / Jojo Floss
Goodnight Moon	2001		Herself - Narrator (voice)
Islamabad: Rock City	2001	TV Short documentary	Narrator (voice)
Uphill All the Way	2001	Documentary	Narrator (voice)
Last Party 2000	2001	Documentary	Herself
The Concert for New York City	2001	TV Special documentary	Herself
Ghosts of Attica	2001	Documentary	Narrator (voice)
New York: A Documentary Film	2001	TV Series documentary
Rudyland	2001	Documentary	Narrator (voice)
The Shaman's Apprentice	2001	Documentary	Narrator (voice)
Cool Women in History	2001	TV Mini-Series documentary	Host - Season 1
Backstory	2001	TV Series documentary	Herself
900 Women	2001	Documentary	Narrator (voice)
Between the Lines: The Making of 'Bull Durham'	2001	Video documentary short	Herself
Behind the Movie: Rugrats in Paris	2000	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Broken Child	2000	TV Movie documentary	Narrator (voice)
Film-Fest DVD: Issue 3 - Toronto	2000	Video documentary	Herself
The Making of 'Rugrats in Paris'	2000	Video documentary	Herself
Nova	2000	TV Series documentary	Herself - Narrator
WWE Smackdown!	2000	TV Series	Herself
Thé ou café	2000	TV Series	Herself
Reading Rainbow	2000	TV Series	Herself
This Is What Democracy Looks Like	2000	Documentary	Narrator (voice)
VH-1 Where Are They Now?	2000	TV Series documentary	Herself
Iditarod: A Far Distant Place	2000	Documentary	Narrator (voice)
Dirty Pictures	2000	TV Movie	Herself (Special Appearances by)
Reel Models: The First Women of Film	2000	TV Movie documentary	Herself - Co-Host
Ljuset håller mig sällskap	2000	Documentary	Herself - Interviewee
2000 Essence Awards	2000	TV Special	Herself
The Secret Life of Geisha	1999	TV Series	Herself - Narrator (voice)
Clive Anderson All Talk	1999	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Behind the Music	1999	TV Series documentary	Herself
Saturday Night Live 25	1999	TV Special documentary	Herself (uncredited)
1999 MTV Video Music Awards	1999	TV Special	Herself - Presenter
100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll	1999	TV Movie documentary	Herself - Host
Fresco: The Ancient Art of Fresco Comes Alive	1999	TV Movie documentary	Narrator
The Barbara Walters Summer Special	1999	TV Series	Herself - Guest
The 56th Annual Golden Globe Awards	1999	TV Special documentary	Herself - Nominee
The 25th Annual People's Choice Awards	1999	TV Special	Herself - Presenter: Favorite Motion Picture Actor
Thursday Night with Oscar!	1999	TV Series	Herself - Host (Season 2)
American Experience	1999	TV Series documentary
Inside the Actors Studio	1998-1999	TV Series	Herself - Audience Member / Herself - Guest
Bravo Profiles: The Entertainment Business	1998	TV Mini-Series documentary	Herself
Divas Live: An Honors Concert for VH1 Save the Music	1998	TV Special documentary	Herself - Presenter
The 70th Annual Academy Awards	1998	TV Special	Herself - Presenter & Past Winner Tribute
The 1998 Annual ShoWest Awards	1998	TV Special	Herself - Winner: Humanitarian Award
Walk This Way	1998	TV Movie	Herself - Narrator (voice)
187: Documented	1997	Documentary	Narrator (voice)
Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins	1997	Documentary	Narrator (voice)
The 51st Annual Tony Awards	1997	TV Special	Herself - Presenter
Oscars 1997	1997	TV Movie	Herself
The 69th Annual Academy Awards	1997	TV Special	Herself - Presenter: Best Actor in a Leading Role
3rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards	1997	TV Special	Herself
Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press	1996	Documentary	Narrator (voice)
1996 MTV Video Music Awards	1996	TV Special	Herself
1996 VH1 Honors	1996	TV Movie	Herself
Everyman	1996	TV Series documentary	Herself - Interviewee
The 68th Annual Academy Awards	1996	TV Special	Herself - Winner: Best Actress in a Leading Role & Presenter: Best Original Screenplay
2nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards	1996	TV Special	Herself - Winner
The 53rd Annual Golden Globe Awards	1996	TV Special	Herself - Nominee
Rocky Horror Double Feature Video Show	1995	Video documentary short	Herself
The Survivor's Guide to Prison	2017	Documentary post-production	Narrator
Showbiz Today	1995	TV Series	Herself
Made in Hollywood	2009-2017	TV Series	Herself
The Celluloid Closet	1995	Documentary	Herself
Ok! TV	2017	TV Series	Herself
Premio Donostia a Susan Sarandon	1995	TV Special	Herself - Honoree
Today	1994-2017	TV Series	Herself - Guest / Herself
The 67th Annual Academy Awards	1995	TV Special	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Leading Role & Co-Presenter: Best Art Direction
Extra	2014-2017	TV Series	Herself
CBS This Morning	1994-1995	TV Series	Herself - Guest
The View	2002-2017	TV Series	Herself - Guest / Herself
Primer plano	1994	TV Series	Herself - Interviewee
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	2016-2017	TV Series	Herself / Herself - Guest
Maury	1993-1994	TV Series	Herself / Herself - Guest
Entertainment Tonight	2007-2017	TV Series	Herself
All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!	1994	TV Special	Bitsy
The Insider	2014-2017	TV Series	Herself
Wilderness: The Last Stand	1993	Documentary	Narrator (voice)
The Talk	2016-2017	TV Series	Herself - Guest / Herself
The 65th Annual Academy Awards	1993	TV Special	Herself - Presenter: Best Film Editing
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	2015-2017	TV Series	Herself - Guest / Herself
The 50th Annual Golden Globe Awards	1993	TV Special	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama
EW Reunites	2017	TV Series documentary	Herself - Louise Sawyer
National Geographic Specials	1993	TV Series documentary	Herself - Narrator
Chelsea	2016	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Late Night with David Letterman	1984-1993	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Hollywood Film Awards	2016	Video	Herself
Omnibus	1992	TV Series documentary	Herself
The Late Late Show with James Corden	2015-2016	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Saturday Night Live	1992	TV Series	Herself
Le journal du Festival	2016	TV Series	Herself
When Thelma Met Louise	1992	TV Short documentary	Herself
Larry King Now	2012-2016	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Free to Laugh: A Comedy and Music Special for Amnesty International	1992	TV Special	Herself
The Daily Show	2003-2016	TV Series	Herself - Guest
The 64th Annual Academy Awards	1992	TV Special	Herself - Nominated: Best Actress in a Leading Role & Co-Presenter: Best Film Editing
Tavis Smiley	2008-2016	TV Series	Herself - Guest
The 49th Annual Golden Globe Awards	1992	TV Special	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
The Wendy Williams Show	2012-2016	TV Series	Herself - Guest
The 63rd Annual Academy Awards	1991	TV Special	Herself - Co-Presenter: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Good Morning America	2012-2016	TV Series	Herself - Guest
The 6th Annual IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards	1991	TV Special	Herself
Sidewalks Entertainment	2016	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Sesame Street	1989-1991	TV Series	Herself
PoliticKING with Larry King	2016	TV Series	Herself - Guest
E.T. - Entretenimento Total	1991	TV Series	Herself
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore	2016	TV Series	Herself - Panelist
Comic Relief IV	1990	TV Special documentary	Herself
Real Time with Bill Maher	2004-2016	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Through the Wire	1990	Documentary	Narrator (voice)
All In with Chris Hayes	2016	TV Series	Herself - Guest
The 46th Annual Golden Globe Awards	1989	TV Special	Herself - Nominee
Saving Jamaica Bay	2016	Documentary	Narrator (voice)
AIDS: The Facts of Life	1988	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Late Night with Seth Meyers	2016	TV Series	Herself - Guest
De película	1988	TV Series	Herself - Interviewee
22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards	2016	TV Special	Herself - Nominee: Outstanding Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie & Presenter: In Memoriam
The 2nd Commitment to Life AIDS Project Benefit	1986	TV Movie	Herself
StarTalk	2015	TV Series	Herself
Mythos	1985	TV Mini-Series	Herself - Host
The Meredith Vieira Show	2015	TV Series	Herself - Guest
In Our Hands	1984	Documentary	Herself
Oprah's Master Class: Belief Special	2015	TV Movie	Herself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	1974-1984	TV Series	Herself - Guest / Herself
Jimmy Kimmel Live!	2014-2015	TV Series	Herself - Guest
When the Mountains Tremble	1983	Documentary	Herself
Dr. Phil	2015	TV Series	Herself
The 55th Annual Academy Awards	1983	TV Special	Herself - Presenter
Unity	2015	Documentary	Narrator (voice)
The 54th Annual Academy Awards	1982	TV Special documentary	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Leading Role
Death Row Stories	2014-2015	TV Series documentary	Narrator
Fridays	1981	TV Series	Herself
Artistry/Technology	2015	Short	Herself
Tomorrow Coast to Coast	1981	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs	2015	TV Special	Herself
The Mike Douglas Show	1977-1979	TV Series	Herself - Guest
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson	2005-2015	TV Series	Herself - Guest
The Alan Hamel Show	1978	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Saving My Tomorrow	2014	TV Series documentary	Herself - Narrator
The 48th Annual Academy Awards	1976	TV Special	Herself - Audience Member (uncredited)
The '90s: The Last Great Decade?	2014	TV Mini-Series documentary	Herself
Chelsea Lately	2010-2014	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Unscripted	2014	TV Series	Herself
2014 NHL Awards	2014	TV Special	Herself
Live with Kelly and Ryan	2004-2014	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman	1994-2014	TV Series	Herself - Guest
The Past is a Grotesque Animal	2014	Documentary	Herself
Oprah's Master Class	2013	TV Series documentary	Herself
Días de cine	1995-2013	TV Series	Herself - Interviewee
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon	2009-2013	TV Series	Herself - Guest

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
We Are Many	2014	Documentary	Herself
Regarding Susan Sontag	2014	Documentary	Annie Savoy
The Chew	2013	TV Series	Herself
Dai nostri inviati: La Rai racconta la Mostra del cinema di Venezia 1980-1989	2013	TV Movie documentary	Herself
The Frame	2013	TV Series	Sarah Roberts
Made in Hollywood	2012	TV Series	Herself
Celebrity Naked Ambition	2011	TV Movie documentary	Herself
The Graham Norton Show	2008	TV Series	Herself
Del corto a Hollywood	2008	TV Movie documentary	Herself (uncredited)
The O'Reilly Factor	2008	TV Series	Herself
The 80th Annual Academy Awards	2008	TV Special	Herself
Oscar, que empiece el espectáculo	2008	TV Movie documentary	Herself (uncredited)
20 to 1	2007	TV Series documentary	Louise Sawyer
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation	2007	TV Special documentary	Herself - Audience Member (uncredited)
Manufacturing Dissent	2007	Documentary	Herself
Premio Donostia a Max Von Sydow	2006	TV Special	Herself
Last Laugh '05	2005	TV Movie	Herself
San Sebastián 2005: Crónica de Carlos Boyero	2005	TV Special	Louise Sawyer (uncredited)
Cinema mil	2005	TV Series	Herself
Premio Donostia a Willem Dafoe	2005	TV Special	Herself
Corazón de...	2005	TV Series	Herself
Biography	1995-2005	TV Series documentary	Adele August Hattie Herself
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream	2005	Documentary	Herself
Retrosexual: The 80's	2004	TV Mini-Series documentary
Rated 'R': Republicans in Hollywood	2004	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second	2003	Video documentary	Herself
Cher: The Farewell Tour	2003	TV Movie documentary	Jane Spoffard
Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years	2000	TV Movie documentary	Janet Weiss
Before They Were Famous	1999	TV Series advert 'Dermassage cream' 1973 - Episode dated 25 December 1999 1999 ... advert 'Dermassage cream' 1973
20/20	1999	TV Series documentary	Louise Sawyer
... y otras mujeres de armas tomar	1998	TV Movie documentary	Herself
The Celluloid Closet: Featurette	1995	Video short	Herself
That's Hollywood	1981	TV Series documentary	Janet Weiss
Extra	2016-2017	TV Series	Herself
Entertainment Tonight	2008-2017	TV Series	Herself
The 89th Annual Academy Awards	2017	TV Special	Herself
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs	2017	Documentary
Access Hollywood	2016	TV Series	Herself
Inside Edition	2015-2016	TV Series documentary	Herself
Boots on the Ground in Haiti	2016	Documentary	Herself
Tellement Gay! Homosexualité et pop culture	2015	TV Mini-Series documentary	Sarah Roberts
The 87th Annual Academy Awards	2015	TV Special	Herself - Presenter: Jean Hersholt Award
Chelsea Lately	2014	TV Series	Herself / Pearl in 'Tammy'

Won awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
2016	Kering Women in Motion Award	Cannes Film Festival
2016	CinemaCon Award	CinemaCon, USA	Cinema Icon Award
2015	Golden Camera	Golden Camera, Germany	Best International Actress	For her body of work.
2014	Career Achievement Award	AARP Movies for Grownups Awards
2014	CinEuphoria	CinEuphoria Awards	Career - Honorary Award
2012	Woman of the Year	Elle Women in Hollywood Awards
2011	Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema	Shanghai International Film Festival
2011	Special Award	Sonoma Valley Film Festival	Lifetime Achievement Award
2010	François Truffaut Award	Giffoni Film Festival
2010	OFTA Television Award	Online Film & Television Association	Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture or Miniseries	You Don't Know Jack (2010)
2009	Lifetime Achievement Award	Stockholm Film Festival		For her 'reflection, seduction and rebellion' through which she has portrayed many 'multifaceted ... More
2007	Honorary Lady Harimaguada	Las Palmas Film Festival
2006	Honorary Award of the Festival	Marrakech International Film Festival
2006	Artistic Achievement Award	Philadelphia Film Festival
2005	Mary Pickford Award	Satellite Awards
2005	Career Achievement Award	Chicago International Film Festival
2005	Renaissance Award	Harlem International Film Festival
2005	Hollywood Film Award	Hollywood Film Awards	Supporting Actress of the Year	Elizabethtown (2005)
2005	Excellence Award	Locarno International Film Festival
2004	Acting and Activism Award	Women Film Critics Circle Awards
2003	Gala Tribute	Film Society of Lincoln Center
2002	Maverick Award	Taos Talking Picture Festival
2002	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Motion Picture	At 6801 Hollywood Blvd.
2002	Governor's Award	Cape May NJ State Film Festival
2002	Sierra Award	Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Igby Goes Down (2002)
2002	Freedom in Film Award	Nashville Film Festival
2001	Blimp Award	Kids' Choice Awards, USA	Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie	Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II (2000)
1999	Icon Award	Elle Women in Hollywood Awards			· Meg Ryan · Anjelica Huston · Amy Pascal
1998	Humanitarian Award	ShoWest Convention, USA
1998	SDFCS Award	San Diego Film Critics Society Awards	Best Actress	Stepmom (1998)
1997	Blockbuster Entertainment Award	Blockbuster Entertainment Awards	Favorite Actress - Drama	Dead Man Walking (1995)
1997	CineMerit Award	Munich Film Festival
1996	Actor	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role	Dead Man Walking (1995)
1996	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Actress in a Leading Role	Dead Man Walking (1995)
1996	Chlotrudis Award	Chlotrudis Awards	Best Actress	Dead Man Walking (1995)
1996	David	David di Donatello Awards	Best Foreign Actress (Migliore Attrice Straniera)	Dead Man Walking (1995)
1996	Woman of the Year	Hasty Pudding Theatricals, USA
1996	Desert Palm Achievement Award	Palm Springs International Film Festival
1995	Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award	San Sebastián International Film Festival
1995	BAFTA Film Award	BAFTA Awards	Best Actress	The Client (1994)
1995	KCFCC Award	Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Actress	Dead Man Walking (1995)
1994	Crystal Award	Women in Film Crystal Awards
1992	Film Excellence Award	Boston Film Festival
1992	David	David di Donatello Awards	Best Foreign Actress (Migliore Attrice Straniera)	Thelma & Louise (1991)
1992	Actor Award	Gotham Awards
1992	ALFS Award	London Critics Circle Film Awards	Actress of the Year	Thelma & Louise (1991)
1991	NBR Award	National Board of Review, USA	Best Actress	Thelma & Louise (1991)
1990	Muse Award	New York Women in Film & Television
1987	ACE	CableACE Awards	Actress in a Dramatic Series	Oxbridge Blues (1984)
1982	Pasinetti Award	Venice Film Festival	Best Actress	Tempest (1982)
1981	Genie	Genie Awards	Best Performance by a Foreign Actress	Atlantic City, USA (1980)
1981	KCFCC Award	Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Actress	Atlantic City, USA (1980)

Nominated awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
2017	Movies for Grownups Award	AARP Movies for Grownups Awards	Best Grownup Love Story	The Meddler (2015)	· J.K. Simmons
2016	Actor	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries	The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (2015)
2016	BTVA Feature Film Voice Acting Award	Behind the Voice Actors Awards	Best Vocal Ensemble in a Feature Film	Hell and Back (2015)	· Nick Swardson · T.J. Miller · Bob Odenkirk · Mila Kunis · Rob Riggle · Danny McBride · David Koechner · J.B. Smoove · Maria Bamford
2015	Razzie Award	Razzie Awards	Worst Supporting Actress	Tammy (2014)
2013	People's Choice Award	People's Choice Awards, USA	Favorite Movie Icon
2013	Razzie Award	Razzie Awards	Worst Screen Couple	That's My Boy (2012)	· Adam Sandler · Leighton Meester · Andy Samberg
2012	OFTA Television Award	Online Film & Television Association	Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series	30 Rock (2006)
2011	Actor	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries	You Don't Know Jack (2010)
2010	WIN Award	Women's Image Network Awards	Actress Mini-Series / Made for Television Movie	You Don't Know Jack (2010)
2010	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie	You Don't Know Jack (2010)
2010	Movies for Grownups Award	AARP Movies for Grownups Awards	Best Supporting Actress	The Lovely Bones (2009)
2010	Saturn Award	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA	Best Supporting Actress	The Lovely Bones (2009)
2009	Actor	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries	Bernard and Doris (2006)
2009	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television	Bernard and Doris (2006)
2009	Genie	Genie Awards	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role	Emotional Arithmetic (2007)
2009	Gold Derby TV Award	Gold Derby Awards	Drama Guest Actress	ER (1994)
2009	Jutra	Jutra Awards	Best Actress (Meilleure Actrice)	Emotional Arithmetic (2007)
2009	Prism Award	Prism Awards	Performance in a TV Movie or Miniseries	Bernard and Doris (2006)
2008	Satellite Award	Satellite Awards	Best Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television	Bernard and Doris (2006)
2008	Teen Choice Award	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Villain	Enchanted (2007)
2008	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie	Bernard and Doris (2006)
2008	Golden Nymph	Monte-Carlo TV Festival	Television Films - Best Performance by an Actress	Bernard and Doris (2006)
2007	EDA Female Focus Award	Alliance of Women Film Journalists	Humanitarian Activism Award
2005	Movies for Grownups Award	AARP Movies for Grownups Awards	Best Actress	Shall We Dance (2004)
2005	Movies for Grownups Award	AARP Movies for Grownups Awards	Best Grownup Love Story	Shall We Dance (2004)	· Richard Gere
2003	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture	Igby Goes Down (2002)
2003	Movies for Grownups Award	AARP Movies for Grownups Awards	Best Actress	Igby Goes Down (2002)
2003	Movies for Grownups Award	AARP Movies for Grownups Awards	Best Grownup Love Story	Moonlight Mile (2002)	· Dustin Hoffman
2003	DFWFCA Award	Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Igby Goes Down (2002)
2002	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series	Malcolm in the Middle (2000)
2002	Daytime Emmy	Daytime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Special Class Series	Cool Women in History (2001)	· Jeff Eisenberg (producer) · Andrew Ames (producer)
2001	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series	Friends (1994)
2001	OFTA Television Award	Online Film & Television Association	Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series	Friends (1994)
1999	Golden Satellite Award	Satellite Awards	Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama	Stepmom (1998)
1999	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama	Stepmom (1998)
1999	Blockbuster Entertainment Award	Blockbuster Entertainment Awards	Favorite Actress - Drama	Stepmom (1998)
1998	ACCA	Awards Circuit Community Awards	Best Actress in a Leading Role	Stepmom (1998)
1996	Sant Jordi	Sant Jordi Awards	Best Foreign Actress (Mejor Actriz Extranjera)	Dead Man Walking (1995)
1996	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama	Dead Man Walking (1995)
1996	MTV Movie Award	MTV Movie Awards	Best Female Performance	Dead Man Walking (1995)
1995	Actor	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role	The Client (1994)
1995	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Actress in a Leading Role	The Client (1994)
1995	Blockbuster Entertainment Award	Blockbuster Entertainment Awards	Favorite Actress - Suspense	The Client (1994)
1993	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Actress in a Leading Role	Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
1993	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama	Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
1993	CFCA Award	Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	Best Actress	Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
1992	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Actress in a Leading Role	Thelma & Louise (1991)
1992	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama	Thelma & Louise (1991)
1992	BAFTA Film Award	BAFTA Awards	Best Actress	Thelma & Louise (1991)
1992	CFCA Award	Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	Best Actress	Thelma & Louise (1991)
1992	MTV Movie Award	MTV Movie Awards	Best On-Screen Duo	Thelma & Louise (1991)	· Geena Davis
1992	People's Choice Award	People's Choice Awards, USA	Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture Actress
1991	Sant Jordi	Sant Jordi Awards	Best Foreign Actress (Mejor Actriz Extranjera)	Thelma & Louise (1991)
1991	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama	White Palace (1990)
1989	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical	Bull Durham (1988)
1988	Saturn Award	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA	Best Actress	The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
1988	Golden Apple	Golden Apple Awards	Female Star of the Year
1985	ACE	CableACE Awards	Actress in a Dramatic Series	Faerie Tale Theatre (1982)
1982	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Actress in a Leading Role	Atlantic City, USA (1980)

2nd place awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
1995	ACCA	Awards Circuit Community Awards	Best Actress in a Leading Role	Dead Man Walking (1995)
1993	NSFC Award	National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA	Best Actress	Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
1992	DFWFCA Award	Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards	Best Actress	Thelma & Louise (1991)	· Geena Davis
1992	NYFCC Award	New York Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Actress	Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
1991	NYFCC Award	New York Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Actress	Thelma & Louise (1991)	· Geena Davis

3rd place awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
1992	NSFC Award	National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA	Best Actress	Thelma & Louise (1991)

Title	Salary
Moonlight Mile (2002)	$7,500,000
The Client (1994)	$5,000,000
Lorenzo's Oil (1992)	$3,500,000

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1	I don't vote with my vagina.
2	I'm such a victim of inertia. I need a structure that puts me in a microcosm of some kind.
3	I get paid a pretty good salary to do something that's very childish. So how can I complain about anything?
4	[about Prozac] I don't want to go on record as saying that nobody should be on it, but where are the artists going to come from? I think that every birthing is difficult and painful, and that sometimes you have every right to feel angry, and you have every right to feel miserable. And you have to get to the core of what that's about. Medication alone is not going to do it. So I think sometimes you have to just go there. And out of that will come a really interesting person.
5	I see myself as having a little flashlight that lets you get information that you're not getting, and then you make up your mind yourself how to act.
6	[on negative reviews] Those kind of reviews don't bother me because I've been through some really dry periods. If anything's helped me through those times, it's the fact that I started out as a character actor.
7	I am very romantic. For a women of my age and station, I have not been around very much at all. I've never developed that sportive kind of attitude toward sex. Thank God, as it turns out.
8	[on her split from Tim Robbins] People were coming up to me in the street and saying "I cried and cried when I heard." Well, I was sadder! I didn't think it would ever happen, either.
9	When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.
10	I couldn't live in Hollywood; it's too much of a company town. I never look at the trade papers. I used to, but I was scandalized by reading about actors who made deals before they read the script. How could they possibly do that?
11	Men very often can see sex as a way of solving a problem, where women want the problem solved beforehand.
12	[her rationale for turning down a role in Tightrope (1984)] The link between violence and sex was very strong. I met with Clint Eastwood and I said, "Aren't you worried, especially you, who everybody thinks is like Man Personified, when your character starts to do some of this stuff, that it's going to have a link between sex and violence and treating women badly?" And he said, "I don't think that it's my job to worry about that, I'm an actor."
13	[in 1993 on Richard Gere] Richard has been in a lot of good films, but he's never been in a great one.
14	[on the death of James Gandolfini] So sad to lose James Gandolfini. One of the sweetest, funniest, most generous actors I've ever worked with. Sending prayers to his family.
15	It's better to have made decisions that turned out badly and learn from them than to feel as if you had no choice and are resentful of the turns that your life takes. My life has been filled with happy accidents. The thing that's served me well is being able to change onto a different track when it's presented itself. [Interview with George Stark, 2014]
16	I really respect filmmakers who manage to have lives, do the films the way they want to do them, have a sense of irony and humor about themselves and aren't crippled by the terrible things this business does to you, and how it breaks your heart when films are not released properly.
17	[on Brad Pitt and Geena Davis in Thelma & Louise (1991)] The day they did their scenes in bed was the only day they watched the dailies right through, which was suspicious to me. [It] was a very long lunch.
18	I believe in love and trust and commitment, but not in marriage. Marriage may do something for lawyers and mothers, but not for husbands and wives. I deal with reality, with the feelings I have at the moment. And then I go on from there.
19	I was definitely one of those Sixties girls with flowers in my hair and no bra and was influenced by certain drugs of that period, like cannabis or acid. But I always remind my kids that drugs are illegal. Some are a lot of fun, but some can kill you first time out. Mind-expanding drugs - like acid - are very different from the crack and heroin that's around these days. My kids asked me if I used crack, which I thought was funny. I mean, they didn't even have crack then, to show you how far back I go!
20	(1995, on being the eldest of nine children) I was the mother of everybody. And it took me a long time to understand that I didn't have to mother every guy I was with. When I stopped doing that, things got better. When I became a mother, all of these things I had been practicing with grown men made sense, because this was the right time to do it.
21	(1995, on having to do movie re-shoots) White Palace (1990). We shot the ending that was in the book, which is: she sits down, they look at each other, and you don't know what's gonna happen between them. But Pretty Woman (1990) had just come out, and they were thinking, "If we could only get him to marry her and they could have a big laugh." Jimmy [James Spader] and I, we fought and fought, trying to keep our characters intact, but we did two re-shoots on that. On Sweet Hearts Dance (1988), that was a different problem, in that Don Johnson kind of threw the script out. So what happened was we had to do a month of re-shoots at two different times to put back things that had been taken out...The real mistake with that movie was that I thought it was about one thing, and they decided it was about these two guys who were never gonna grow up, a male-bonding thing. And who cares about that?
22	(1995, on relationships) I think the concept that there's one person who's gonna make you whole, this Gibran kind of thinking, is so detrimental. I don't think it's the other person's responsibility to make you whole at all. It's the other person's responsibility to make you laugh, to give you a dance now and then, to read the newspaper and tell you about things you don't have time to read about, to introduce you to music you don't know, to tell you when you're full of shit, to fight fair, to be good in bed, to say, "Come on, let's go have an adventure" when you've become a little bit of a stick in the mud. But it's not their job to make you whole. The test for me of a great romantic relationship is how productive you are during the relationship. You don't need somebody who's gonna keep you up till four in the morning and you don't even know why you're fighting. You don't need somebody who you're gonna go to a party and you're worried about that they're gonna get jealous, laid, drunk, stoned, or turn up missing. I like to go to a party and go my way and let somebody else go their way, and you meet up or you don't meet up and then you go home together and nobody feels bad about it. That's the perfect description of life, too- the party of life. I've been very lucky to find someone. We've been incredibly productive since we've been together.
23	(1995, on the conception of her love scene in The Hunger (1983) and stereotypes men have about lesbianism) They felt that I should be really drunk so that was their way of taking away her choice in a sense, and I insisted that it not be that way, that certainly, you know, you wouldn't have to get drunk to bed Catherine Deneuve. I don't care what your sexual history to that point had been. It was much more interesting that she went voluntarily. [...] I don't think, for better or worse, that women are taken very seriously in this area. I think the feeling is when two women are together, then it's probably experimental or some kind of phase and if the right guy came along, that would all change. So it's actually something that straight men can watch and not be threatened by. And straight men are the ones that are propelling the industry forward, so I don't think it's taken that seriously.
24	[About people criticizing Thelma & Louise (1991) for its violence and "anti-male" attitude] It shows what a straight, white male world movies traditionally occupy. This kind of scrutiny does not happen to Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) or that Schwarzenegger thing [Total Recall (1990)] where he shoots a woman in the head and says, "Consider that a divorce".
25	On mothering: Children can reinvent your world for you.
26	[on Thelma & Louise (1991)] The thing that separates this from a revenge movie with two males, for instance, is that there is a moral price to be paid by me for losing it, as you learn later, because I had been raped. I go into some kind of little trance there and just overreact. But I think the whole rest of the movie from that point on operates under the knowledge for this character that she is going to have to pay a price, and that there is no joy, really, in that revenge. it was important for me, as the movie went on, to try and figure out why these things keep happening, not to make it about getting even. So we tried in all the rest of the scenes to ask questions, or to make it clear, that she's on some kind of search for an understanding of this moment. When I take off all my jewelry and my watch, I think I'm preparing to go into a zone where she feels she had to pay some kind of a price. That was very much in my mind from that moment on in the film.
27	Despite the statistics, nothing is hopeless, nothing is futile. We can do so much to protect children with awareness, knowledge, and a lot of love.
28	I thought the whole point of feminism is that you're not supposed to be defined by gender. I don't understand the reasoning behind that, because I wouldn't vote for Condoleezza Rice, and I hated Margaret Thatcher.
29	People probably think of me as Debbie Downer. I have become kind of a joke in terms of activism for some people. But it is like worrying if your slip is showing when you're fleeing a burning building. You have to prioritize.
30	I think I've survived because I've gone through a number of incarnations. Sometimes they need somebody sexy. Sometimes they need somebody smart. I've managed to be able to morph myself into parts.
31	You have to be careful not to be upstaged by your breasts. I've gotten curvier as I've gotten older. Directors cast the men they want to be and the women they want to have.
32	The difference between theatre and film is kind of like the difference between making love and masturbation.
33	I remember going to great lengths to celebrate disappointments like not getting a job. I'd take whatever little cash I had and go out to dinner. I saw loss as an opportunity to change direction.
34	[on taking political stances] I think it's a riot that people think that actors do this as a hobby or that somehow it's gonna help your career. If you look at the number of people that are active, it's miniscule. This whole myth about 'Liberal Hollywood' ... the people with the power in Hollywood are the wealthy people and the bulk of them is not liberal. Hollywood is not political.
35	Every film is political in that it tells you some idea: What do women want? What does it mean to be a man? What is just? What is funny? What can you laugh at? What is not funny? So we notice the ones that challenge the status quo.
36	I've maintained a fairly low standard of living in terms of cars, houses and planes and in that way I don't have to make a huge amount of money to maintain my lifestyle.
37	I think one of the reasons I haven't married Tim is that I hate that couples assumption - that once you're committed to someone you stop treating each other as individuals. I like getting up knowing I am choosing to be with that person.
38	I never think about humiliating myself. I keep focusing on wanting to do a good job.
39	I'm certainly not an expert, but Tim and I just celebrated 17 years together, which in Hollywood years I think is 45. I think the key is just focusing on this one person and not keeping one eye on the door to see who might be better.
40	My children were embarrassed at my Lincoln Center Tribute. I forgot they would show film clips and my children hadn't seen anything. Every time something a little racy would come on like The Hunger (1983), I'd look at my 13-year-old, who was shielding his eyes.
41	I haven't yet had any plastic surgery, but I won't knock it. I think women have the right to do anything they want to their bodies that makes them feel good about themselves. It's hard to be in this business and be viewed on a screen that's huge. You can see every single line. But I think it's an aesthetic choice for the individual. I don't like it when surgeons take a perfectly interesting looking woman and she ends up looking like a female impersonator with these gigantic breasts. It's just so extreme and that worries me. I think everyone is looking the same.
42	It's always so painful to watch yourself. That never changes. I still sit there and think, "Oh, that scene is missing? Wasn't I good? What happened there?".
43	The largest party in the United States is the 50 percent who don't vote.
44	The thing that's bad about breasts is that you have to choose between having a mind and having breasts. It'd be nice if you could have both. Anyway, I think my breasts have been highly overrated.
45	You're so lucky in Ireland, England and Spain. Everyone there already knows what it's like to have inexplicable terrorist violence.
46	People will like you for the wrong reasons your entire life, even if you don't have parents who are celebrities. They will like you because you have a car or you have money or your breasts are big.
47	On Thelma & Louise (1991) after her nomination for best actress, 1992, "I was surprised that the film struck such a primal nerve. I knew when we were filming that it would be different, unusual and hopefully entertaining. But shocking? I guess giving women the option of violence was hard for a lot of people to accept".
48	If I were 22 and trying to build a career, I don't know who'd be watching the kids as happily as I do. It takes so much to get me to break out of domestic paradise. There's hardly anything that interests me as much as my family.
49	I think the only reason I remain an actor is that you can never quite get it right. So there is a challenge to it.
50	Sexuality... is something that develops and becomes stronger and stronger the older you get... If you can continue to say yes to life and to maintain a certain generosity of spirit, you become more and more of who you are.
51	I feel I've always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am, are ordinary but maybe find themselves in extra-ordinary circumstances, and what they do is at great cost.
52	I choose projects I can talk about for days because now you do publicity for as long as it took you to shoot the movie.