Award Partisan Review Fellowship

American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1956)

Rainbow Honor Walk (2014)

National LGBTQ Wall of Honor (2019)

George Polk Memorial Award (1963)

Légion d'Honneur (Commandeur, 1986)

Guggenheim Fellowship (1954)

Eugene F. Saxton Memorial Trust Award (1945)

Foreign Drama Critics Award (1964)

Rosenwald Foundation Fellowship (1948)

National Conference of Christians and Jews Brotherhood Award (1962)

Ford Foundation Fellowship (1958)