Awards
Pulitzer Prize
Won: Buried Child
Nominated: True West, Fool for love
1983 supporting actor Oscar nomination for The Right Stuff.
Won OBIE awards for 10 plays—
- Chicago (which Shepard claims to have written in a single day),
- Icarus’s Mother and
- Red Cross.
- La Turista: his first full-length play (1967)
- Melodrama Play (1968)
- Cowboys #2 (1968).
- etc
Won Best TV supporting actor for his role in Lily Dale
See Awards for the complete list of Sam Shepard’s awards.
[1]Shewey, D. (1997). Sam Shepard. New York: Da Capo Press.
[2]Crank, J. (2013). Understanding Sam Shepard. Columbia: South Carolina University Press.