Awards and Honors
In 1990, Bringing Up Baby was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", the second year that the registry started preserving films. Entertainment Weekly voted the film number twenty-four on its list of the greatest films. In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted it the forty-seventh greatest comedy film of all time.
Premiere ranked Cary Grant's performance as Dr. David Huxley #68 on their list of The 100 Greatest Performances of All Time. They also ranked the character of Susan Vance #21 on their list of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
American Film Institute recognition
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies - #97
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs - #14
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions - #51
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
- "It isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you; but, well, there haven't been any quiet moments!" - Nominated
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) - #88
- AFI's 10 Top 10 - Nominated Romantic Comedy
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