List of awards and nominations received by Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon awards and nominations
Totals[a]
Wins36
Nominations100
Note
  1. ^ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Susan Sarandon.

Susan Sarandon is American actress. Known for her portrayals of headstrong leading women in film and television, she has received various accolades including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for six Primetime Emmy Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, nine Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award.

Sarandon took an early role where she played young waitress in the Louis Malle romantic crime drama Atlantic City (1980) for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She took the role of the romantic lead in the Ron Shelton directed sports drama Bull Durham (1988) for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. She played a sharp tongued waitress in the Ridley Scott directed crime drama Thelma & Louise (1991) for which she earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She portrayed Michaela Odone in the George Miller directed drama Lorenzo's Oil (1992), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.

She played a recovering alcoholic and lawyer in the Joel Schumacher directed legal drama The Client earning the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role as well as nominations for the Academy Award, the and the Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress. She won widespread acclaim for her role as a concerned nun Sister Helen Prejean in the Tim Robbins directed crime drama Dead Man Walking (1995) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role. She received further Golden Globe-nominations for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for the comedy-drama Stepmom (1998) and the Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for the comedy-drama Igby Goes Down (2002).

On television, she earned six Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her performances as a soap opera diva in the NBC sitcom Friends (2001), Meg Burbank in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (2002), a wealthy woman in the HBO television film Bernard and Doris (2008), a right-to-die advocate and patient in the HBO television film You Don't Knock Jack (2010), and Bette Davis in the FX limited series Feud: Bette and Joan (2017). She was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for Dinosongs: Poems to Celebrate a T. Rex Named Sue (2001).

Major associations

Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1981 Best Actress Atlantic City Nominated [1]
1991 Thelma & Louise Nominated [2]
1992 Lorenzo's Oil Nominated [3]
1994 The Client Nominated [4]
1995 Dead Man Walking Won [5]
Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
1991 Best Actress in a Leading Role Thelma & Louise Nominated [6]
1994 The Client Won [7]
Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
Primetime Emmy Awards
2001 Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Friends Nominated [8]
2002 Malcolm in the Middle Nominated [9]
2008 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Bernard and Doris Nominated [10]
2010 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie You Don't Know Jack Nominated [11]
2017 Outstanding Limited Series (as a producer) Feud: Bette and Joan Nominated [12]
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Nominated
Daytime Emmy Awards
2002 Outstanding Special Class Series (as a producer) Cool Women in History Nominated
Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1988 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Bull Durham Nominated [13]
1990 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama White Palace Nominated [13]
1991 Thelma & Louise Nominated [13]
1992 Lorenzo's Oil Nominated [13]
1995 Dead Man Walking Nominated [13]
1998 Stepmom Nominated [13]
2002 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Igby Goes Down Nominated [13]
2008 Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture – Television Bernard and Doris Nominated [13]
2017 Feud: Bette and Joan Nominated [13]
Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2001 Best Spoken Word Album for Children Dinosongs: Poems to Celebrate a T. Rex Named Sue Nominated [14]
Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1994 Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role The Client Nominated [15]
1995 Dead Man Walking Won [15]
2008 Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Television Movie Bernard and Doris Nominated [16]
2011 You Don't Know Jack Nominated [17]
2015 The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe Nominated [18]
2017 Feud: Bette and Joan Nominated [19]

Miscellaneous awards

Sarandon receiving the Sitges Film Festival's Grand Honorary Prize in October 2017
Organizations Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2012 Crystal Globe for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema[a] Honored [20]
Razzie Awards 2012 Worst Screen Couple[b] That's My Boy Nominated
2014 Worst Supporting Actress Tammy Nominated
2017 A Bad Moms Christmas Nominated
Satellite Awards 1998 Best Actress – Motion Picture Stepmom Nominated
2008 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Bernard and Doris Nominated
2017 Feud: Bette and Joan Nominated
Saturn Awards 1987 Best Actress The Witches of Eastwick Nominated
2009 Best Supporting Actress The Lovely Bones Nominated
Sitges Film Festival 2017 Grand Honorary Prize Honored [21]

Critics awards

Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
1981 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Best Actress Atlantic City Won [22]
1991 London Film Critics Circle Actress of the Year White Palace Won [23]
Thelma & Louise [23]
1991 National Board of Review Best Actress[c] Won [24]
1991 New York Film Critics Circle Best Actress[c] Nominated [25]
1992 Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Best Actress Nominated
1992 National Society of Film Critics Best Actress Nominated [26]
1992 Chicago Film Critics Association Best Actress Nominated
1993 Lorenzo's Oil Nominated
1992 New York Film Critics Circle Best Actress Nominated [27]
1993 National Society of Film Critics Nominated [28]
Light Sleeper [28]
1995 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Best Actress Dead Man Walking Won [29]
1998 San Diego Film Critics Society Best Actress Stepmom Won
2002 Las Vegas Film Critics Society Best Supporting Actress Moonlight Mile Won [30]
Igby Goes Down [30]
2002 Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actress Nominated
2004 Women Film Critics Circle Acting & Activism Award Honored
2007 Alliance of Women Film Journalists Humanitarian Activism Award Honored
2016 Indiana Film Journalists Association Best Actress The Meddler Nominated
2017 Television Critics Association Awards Individual Achievement in Drama Feud: Bette and Joan Nominated [31]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Co-recipient alongside Helen Mirren.
  2. ^ Shared with Leighton Meester, Andy Samberg, and Adam Sandler.
  3. ^ a b Shared with Geena Davis for the same film.

References

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