Hepburn was nominated for a total of 12 Academy Awards for Best Actress, and won four – the record number of wins for a performer.

Outside of acting, Hepburn also received recognition from the American Humanist Association and the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

In 2000, at age 93, she was named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star of Classic Hollywood cinema.

[3] She won for Best Actress for her roles as an actress on her journey to stardom in Morning Glory (1933), a mother who's shocked when her daughter is engaged to a black man in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (1968), and an elderly woman in On Golden Pond (1981).

She was Oscar-nominated for Alice Adams (1935), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Woman of the Year (1942), The African Queen (1951), Summertime (1955), The Rainmaker (1956), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), and Long Day's Journey into Night (1962).