Singin' in The Rain - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

For her role as Lina Lamont, Jean Hagen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The film was also nominated for a Best Original Music Score.

Donald O'Connor won a Golden Globe for this film. Betty Comden and Adolph Green received the Writers Guild of America for the best written American musical.

Singin' in the Rain has appeared twice on Sight and Sound's list of the ten best films of all time, in 1982 and 2002. Its position in 1982 was at number 4 on the critics list; on the 2002 critics' list it was listed as number 10 and it tied for 19 on the directors' list. The film has a rare 100% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 45 sources. In 2008, Singin' in the Rain was placed on Empire's 500 Greatest Movies of All Time List, ranking at #8, the highest ranked G-rated movie on the list.

In 1989, Singin' in the Rain was among the first 25 films chosen for the newly established National Film Registry for films that are deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation.

American Film Institute recognition

• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies - #10
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs - #16
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions - #16
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains:
  • Lina Lamont - Nominated Villain
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs:
  • "Singin' in the Rain" - #3
  • "Make 'em Laugh" - #49
  • "Good Morning" - #72
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes:
  • "What do they think I am, dumb or something? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge! Put together!" - Nominated
• AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals - #1
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) - #5