Marilyn Monroe Awards and Nominations

1948

• The Los Angels Press Club: Miss Press Club

1951

• Henrietta Awards: The Best Young Box Office Personality
• Soldiers posted to the Aleutians: The Girl Most Likely to Thaw Alaska
• The 7th Division Medical Corps: The Girl Most Wanted to Examine
• Stars and Strips: Miss Cheesecake of the Year
• The All Weather Fighter Squadron 3, San Diego: The Girl They Would Most Like to Intercept
• The Present All GIs Would Like To Find in Their Christmas Stocking

1952

• Detroit Free Press: New Faces Award
• Look Magazine: Look Award
• Stars and Strips: Cheesecake Queen of 1952
• Look Magazine Achievement Awards: Most Promising Female Newcomer

1953

• Photoplay Magazine Awards: Fastest Rising Star of 1952
• Independent Theatre Owners of Arkansas: The State’s Most Popular Movie Actress (Selected by a poll of 109,248 Arkansas theatre patrons)
• Redbook Magazine: Best Young Box Office Personality
• The Jewelry Academy: The Best Friend a Diamond Ever Had
• Golden Globe Award: Female World Film Favorite
• Advertising Association of the West: The Most Advertised Girl in the World

1954

• Photoplay Magazine Awards: Best Actress – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire
• VFW Post 398, Inglewood, CA: Recognition in Commemoration of Her Unselfish Service Rendered to the Armed Forces in Korea, Presented June, 19, 1954

1956

• British Academy Awards: Nomination: Best Foreign Actress – The Seven Year Itch

1958

• David di Donatello Prize (Italian equivalent of the Oscar): Best Foreign Actress of 1958 – The Prince and the Showgirl
• British Academy Awards: Nomination: Best Foreign Actress – The Prince and the Showgirl
• Harvard Lampoon: The Thank-God Award: To Marilyn Monroe, who in a sweeping public service has made no movies this year

1959

• Crystal Star Award (French equivalent of the Oscar): Best Foreign Actress – The Prince and the Showgirl

1960

• Golden Globe Award: Best Actress in a Comedy – Some Like It Hot

1962

• Golden Globe Award: Female World Film Favorite

Other:

• Some Like It Hot and All About Eve scored positions fourteen and sixteen respectively in the American Film Institute’s 1998 list of America’s Greatest 100 Movies.
• In June 1999 Marilyn came sixth in the American Film Institute’s list of the top twenty-five female stars of all time.