Deborah Kerr awards: a Cannes Film Festival Tribute in 1984; a BAFTA Special Award in 1991; and an Academy Honorary Award in 1994. In September and October 2010, Josephine Botting of the British Film Institute curated the "Deborah Kerr Season", which included around twenty of her feature films and an exhibition of posters, memorabilia and personal items loaned by her family. Deborah Kerr was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress: "Edward, My Son" (1949), "From Here to Eternity" (1953), "The King and I" (1956), "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison" (1957), "Separate Tables" (1958) and "The Sundowners" (1960). She received
Deborah Kerr and Belgium for ENSA as "Mrs Manningham" in "Angel Street", and Britain (with Stewart Granger) in "Gaslight". Having established herself as a film actress in the meantime, she made her Broadway debut in 1953, appearing in Robert Anderson's "Tea and Sympathy", for which she received a Tony Award nomination. Kerr repeated her role along with her stage partner John Kerr (no relation) in Vincente Minnelli's film adaptation of the drama. In 1955, Kerr won the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance in Chicago during a national tour of the play. After her Broadway début in 1953, she toured the United