| Dame Emma Thompson | |
| Wins: | 38 |
| Nominations: | 121 |
The following is a List of awards and nominations received by Emma Thompson.
Dame Emma Thompson is a British actress and screenwriter known for her roles on stage and screen. She has received several awards throughout her career including two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and one Primetime Emmy Award. She was made a Dame Commander Order of the British Empire (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2018 for her services to drama.
She is the only person in Academy Award history to win for both acting and writing, she won the Best Actress for playing Margaret Schlegel in the Merchant Ivory period drama Howards End (1992) and Best Adapted Screenplay for the Ang Lee directed Sense and Sensibility (1995). She is also one of 12 actors to have received two acting nominations in the same year. She was Oscar-nominated for playing a housemaid in The Remains of the Day (1993), Gareth Peirce in In the Name of the Father (1993), and Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995).
For her work on television, she has received seven Emmy Award nominations, winning Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her guest spot on Ellen (1998). She was Emmy-nominated for playing professor with cancer in the HBO film Wit (2001), various roles in the HBO miniseries Angels in America (2003), a former lover in the BBC film The Song of Lunch (2010), Mrs. Lovett in a taping of Sweeney Todd: Live from Lincoln Center (2014), and as a host of Saturday Night Live (2019). She won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for Fortunes of War / Tutti Frutti (1987).
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Best Actress | Howards End | [1] | |
| 1993 | The Remains of the Day | [2] | ||
| Best Supporting Actress | In the Name of the Father | |||
| 1995 | Best Actress | Sense and Sensibility | [3] | |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | ||||
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primetime Emmy Awards | ||||
| 1998 | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | Ellen Emma | [11] | |
| 2001 | Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie | Wit | [12] | |
| Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie | ||||
| 2004 | Angels in America | [13] | ||
| 2012 | The Song of Lunch | [14] | ||
| 2015 | Sweeney Todd: Live from Lincoln Center | [15] | ||
| 2019 | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | Saturday Night Live Emma Thompson/Jonas Brothers | [16] | |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | Howards End | [17] | |
| 1994 | The Remains of the Day | |||
| Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | In the Name of the Father | |||
| 1995 | Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | Junior | ||
| 1996 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | Sense and Sensibility | ||
| Best Screenplay | ||||
| 2002 | Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film | Wit | ||
| 2009 | Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | Last Chance Harvey | ||
| 2014 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | Saving Mr. Banks | ||
| 2020 | Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | Late Night | ||
| 2023 | Good Luck to You, Leo Grande | |||
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howards End | [18] | |||
| Nanny McPhee Returns | ||||
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Best Supporting Female | Impromptu | [19] | |
| 1993 | Best Female Lead | Much Ado About Nothing | [20] | |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role | Sense and Sensibility | [21] | |
| Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture | ||||
| 2001 | Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Television Movie | Wit | [22] | |
| 2003 | Angels in America | [23] | ||
| 2009 | Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture | An Education | [24] | |
| 2013 | Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role | Saving Mr. Banks | [25] | |
| Organizations | Year | Category | Work | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award | 2013 | Best Actress | Saving Mr. Banks | ||
| 2022 | Best Actress | Good Luck to You, Leo Grande | |||
| Best Daring Performance | |||||
| Annie Award | 2002 | Voice Acting in a Feature | Treasure Planet | [26] | |
| Awards Circuit Community Award | 2013 | Best Actress | Saving Mr. Banks | ||
| 1992 | Best Actress | Howards End | |||
| 1995 | Best Screenplay | Sense and Sensibility | |||
| Capri Hollywood International Film Festival | 2022 | Best European Actress | Good Luck to You, Leo Grande | ||
| Empire Awards | 2013 | Best Actress | Saving Mr. Banks | ||
| European Film Awards | 1997 | Best Actress | The Winter Guest | ||
| Gold Derby Award | 2013 | Best Actress | Saving Mr. Banks | ||
| IGN Award | 2013 | Best Movie Actress | Saving Mr. Banks | ||
| National Board of Review | 1992 | Best Actress | Howards End | ||
| 1995 | Sense and Sensibility | ||||
| 2013 | Saving Mr. Banks | ||||
| Satellite Awards | 2001 | Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film | Wit | ||
| 2003 | Best Supporting Actress – Miniseries or Television Film | Angels in America | |||
| 2003 | Best Supporting Actress | Love Actually | |||
| 2008 | Brideshead Revisited | ||||
| 2013 | Best Actress | Saving Mr. Banks | |||
| Saturn Awards | 2006 | Best Supporting Actress | Stranger than Fiction | ||
| 2013 | Best Actress | Saving Mr. Banks | |||
| Venice International Film Festival | 1997 | Best Actress | The Winter Guest | ||
| Writers Guild of America Awards | 1995 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Sense and Sensibility | ||
| Attenborough UK Film Award | 2013 | Best On Screen Duo | Saving Mr. Banks | ||
| Kermode Award | 2014 | Best Actress | Saving Mr. Banks |